Hello, I'm 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 Kavalska from beginning to end.

Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with Diary Entry Number 1825.

14. Today, my soul is prepared number 1825.

14.

Today, my soul is preparing for the coming of the Lord who can do all things, who can make me perfect and holy.

I am preparing very carefully for his reception, but there arose the difficulty of how to present this to him.

I rejected it, this difficulty at once. I will present it as my heart dictates.

When I had received Jesus in Holy Communion, my heart cried out with all its might. Jesus, transform me into another

host. I want to be a living host for you. You are a great and all-powerful Lord. You can grant me

this favor. And the Lord answered me, you are a living host, pleasing to the Heavenly Father, but reflect what is a host, a sacrifice? And so, O my Jesus, I understand the meaning of host, the meaning of sacrifice. I desire to be before your majesty a living host,

that is, a living sacrifice that daily burns in your honor. When my strength begins to fail,

it is holy communion that will sustain me and give me strength.

Indeed, I fear the day on which I would not receive Holy Communion.

My soul draws astonishing strength from Holy Communion.

O living host, light of my soul.

15. Today, my soul is preparing for Holy Communion as for a wedding feast,

wherein all the participants are resplendent with unspeakable beauty,

and I, too, have been invited to this banquet,

but I do not see that beauty within myself, only an abyss of misery.

And, although I do not feel worthy of sitting down to table, I will, however, slip under the

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