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

Maria Faustina Kavalska, from beginning to end.

Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with Diary Entron Number 878. January 12, 1937. Today, when the doctor, Adam Silberg, making his rounds,

came to see me, he somehow didn't like the way I looked. Naturally, I was suffering more,

and so my temperature had gone up considerably.

Consequently, he decided that I must not go down for Holy Communion until my temperature dropped to normal.

I said, all right, although pain seized my heart,

but I said I would go only if I had no fever.

So he agreed to that. When the doctor left, I said to the

Lord, Jesus, now it is up to you whether I shall go or not, and I didn't think about it anymore,

although the thought kept coming to my mind. I am not to have Jesus, no, that's impossible, and not just once but for several days until

my temperature drops.

But in the evening I said to the Lord, Jesus, if my communions are pleasing to you, I beg

you humbly, grant that I have not one degree of fever tomorrow morning.

In the morning, as I was taking my temperature, I thought to myself, if there is even one degree,

I will not get up because that would be contrary to obedience. But when I looked at the thermometer,

there wasn't even one degree of fever. I jumped to my feet at once and went to Holy Communion. When the doctor came and I told

him that I had not even had one degree of fever and so had gone to Holy Communion, he was surprised.

I begged him not to make it difficult for me to go to Holy Communion,

for it would have an adverse effect on the treatment. The doctor answered, for peace of conscience,

and at the same time to avoid difficulties for yourself, sister, let us make the following agreement.

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