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He turns to you and says, “You,
at least, come to me as often as possible and take these
graces they do not want to accept. In this
way you will console My Heart.” (Diary,
367)
Our Lord is asking for the
frequent reception of Holy Communion. He says,
“Every Holy Communion makes you more
capable of communing with God throughout eternity.”
(Diary, 1811) Not only is He
asking for frequent communion, but for Eucharistic Adoration.
St. Faustina used to make a Holy Hour each Thursday,
offering it up for the sanctity of priests. During one
such night Holy Hour before the Blessed Sacrament, Our
Lord revealed to her what it means to make reparation.
He said, “The
prayer of a humble and loving soul disarms the anger
of My Father and draws down an ocean of blessings.”
(Diary, 320) Why is the Father of Jesus angry?
Because of our sins. And here, our prayer offered before
Jesus truly alive in the Eucharist—giving Him
of our time, loving Him in humility—repairs for
the offenses committed against Him. She said, “Jesus
made known to me how very pleasing to Him were the prayers
of atonement.” (Diary, 320) And after
she made that Holy Hour, she left the chapel to return
to her little cell, which was a tiny little room. Suddenly,
she said, she was surrounded by a pack of dogs. They
were jumping and vying to bite her and sneered angrily,
“Because you have snatched so many souls away
from us this night we will tear you to pieces.”
(Diary, 320) And she realized
that they were not dogs, but demons. Very calmly she
responded, “If that is the will of the Most
merciful God, tear me to pieces, for I have justly deserved
it, because I am the most miserable of all sinners,
and God is ever holy, just and infinitely merciful."
(Diary, 320) And immediately the dogs
shrieked, “Let us flee, for she is not alone;
the Almighty is with her!” (Diary, 320) She
said that they then disappeared like the dust from the
road.
Jesus Himself shows us the
power that we have through Eucharistic Adoration, giving
us many examples in the Diary of St. Faustina.
Once, because Sr. Faustina was ill with tuberculosis
in bed, she was unable to make her hour of Adoration.
She was taken in a vision from her bed to the chapel
where Jesus, in the Blessed Sacrament, was exposed on
the altar in the monstrance for adoration. But in the
place of the host she saw the glorious face of Christ!
And Jesus told her, “What
you see in reality, these souls see through faith. But
for Me to be able to act upon a soul, the soul must
have faith. O how pleasing to me is living faith!"
(Diary, 1420)
Once she approached the altar
to receive Holy Communion but in the ciborium containing
the hosts that the priests was holding she saw Jesus
alive in only her host. And she asked Jesus, “Jesus,
I don’t understand. I know that you are alive
in every host. Why is it that I saw you alive in only
one?” Jesus answered, “Not
every soul receives Me with the same living faith as
you do... therefore I cannot act in their souls as I
do in yours.” (Diary,
1407)
Jesus is showing us that He
is remaining with us until the end of time in the Eucharist.
But complains to us through St. Faustina, saying, “They
have time for everything, but they have no time to come
to me for graces.” (Diary,
367) Jesus is appealing to our love. Our
Lord wants us, He says, to keep coming to this Fountain
of Life, referring to the sacraments of mercy: Confession
and the Eucharist, and to the wound in His Heart from
which these sacraments flow forth. "I
am offering people a vessel with which they are to keep
coming for graces to the fountain of mercy. That vessel
is this image with the signature: Jesus, I trust in
You." (Diary, 327)
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