Join me, Father Thaddeus Langton, as I lead a 40-day consecration to the Immaculate Conception.

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Conception, live on Facebook at the Marion Helpers page, Instagram at the Divine Mercy,

and at divine mercyplus.org at 9 a.m. Eastern Time every morning. Together, let's consecrate our

lives to the Holy Spirit through the love and support of Our Lady the Immaculate Conception.

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Hello, I've father Joe Roche of the Marian fathers of the Immaculate Conception.

Thank you for joining us as we continue with our year-long journey, reading the diary of St.

Maria Faustina Kovalska from beginning to end. Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with

diary entry number 1744. May you be adored, O merciful God of ours, O all-powerful Lord and

Creator, in deepest humility we give you praise, plunging ourselves into the ocean of your Godhead.

But man did not persevere in the hour of trial. At the instigation of the evil one, he became unfaithful to you.

He lost your grace and gifts. Only misery was left him,

and tears, suffering, sorrow, and bitterness until he would rest in the grave. But you,

O merciful God, did not let humanity perish and gave it the promise of a Redeemer.

You did not let us despair despite our grave offenses, and you sent your prophets to Israel.

Still, day and night, mankind cries out to you from the abyss of misery, sin, and all pain.

Hear the moaning and the tears, you who reign in heaven.

God of great mercy, God of compassion.

Man erred, but he cannot ask pardon because a gaping chasm has appeared between God and man with the voice of his misery he cries out mercy but Yahweh is silent and century after century passes on

but the longing of all humankind grows deeper, a longing for him who has been promised.

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