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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 Kovalska 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 offenses and acts 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 Jesus in my hands all that time.

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