Hello, I'm Father Joe Roche, with 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 Kowalska from beginning to end.

Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with diary entry number 160.

The Crusade Day, which is the fifth of the month, happened to fall on the first Friday of the month.

This was my day for keeping watch over the Lord Jesus.

It was my duty to make amends to the Lord for all offences and of disrespect and to pray that on this day no

sacrilege be committed. This day my spirit was set aflame with special love for the

Eucharist. It seemed to me that I was transformed into a blazing fire. When I was about

to receive Holy Communion a second host fell onto the priest's sleeve,

and I did not know which host I was to receive. After I had hesitated for a moment,

the priest made an impatient gesture with his hand to tell me that I should receive the host.

Then I took the host he gave me. The other one fell into my hands.

The priest went along the altar rail to distribute communion, and I held the Lord Jesus in my hands

all that time. When the priest approached me again, I raised the host for him to put it back

into the chalice, because when I had first received Jesus, I could not speak before consuming the host for him to put it back into the chalice, because when I had first received

Jesus, I could not speak before consuming the host, and so could not tell him that the other had

fallen. But while I was holding the host in my hand, I felt such a power of love that for the rest

of the day I could neither eat nor come to my senses.

I heard these words from the host.

I desired to rest in your hands, not only in your heart.

And at that moment I saw the little Jesus.

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