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SAINT<\/strong> Faustina recounts how the Lord became unhappy with certain things taking place at her convent:<\/p>\n One day Jesus said to me, I am going to leave this house…. Because there are things here which displease Me.<\/em> And the Host came out of the tabernacle and came to rest in my hands and I, with joy, placed it back in the tabernacle. This was repeated a second time, and I did the same thing. Despite this, it happened a third time, but the Host was transformed into the living Lord Jesus, who said to me, I will stay here no longer! At this, a powerful love for Jesus rose up in my soul, I answered, \u201cAnd I, I will not let You leave this house, Jesus!\u201d And again Jesus disappeared while the Host remained in my hands. Once again I put it back in the chalice and closed it up in the tabernacle. And Jesus stayed with us. I undertook to make three days of adoration by way of reparation.<\/strong> \u2014Divine Mercy in My Soul, <\/em>Diary, n. 44<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n 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 I should receive the host. When I took the Host he gave me, the other one fell onto 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, 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.<\/em> And at that moment I saw the little Jesus. But when the priest approached, I saw once again only the Host.<\/strong> \u2014Divine Mercy in My Soul<\/em>, Diary, n. 160<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Before I comment on the above, let me repeat for those who have not read Part I here<\/a>. <\/em>The guidelines of the Church are clear: the normative practice for Catholics all over the world is for them to receive the Holy Eucharist on the tongue. <\/em>Second, this is how I have received Jesus for years, and will continue to do so as long as I possibly can. Third, if I were pope (and thank God I am not), I would ask every parish in the world to reinstall a humble Communion rail that would allow parishioners to receive the Blessed Sacrament in a way proper to Who it is that they are receiving: kneeling (for those who can) and on the tongue. As the saying goes: lex orandi, lex credendi: <\/em>“the law of prayer is the law of belief”. In other words, the way we worship ought to be in accord with what we believe. Hence, this is the reason that Catholic art, architecture, sacred music, the manner of our reverence, and all the ornaments of the Liturgy that have grown throughout the centuries became, in themselves, a mystical language <\/em>that spoke without words. No wonder, then, that Satan attacked much of this in the past fifty years in order to silence the divine (see On Weaponizing the Mass<\/a>).<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n TOUCHING JESUS<\/p>\n That said, we can also infer much from St. Faustina’s accounts. First, while the Lord was displeased with certain things in the nun’s home, one of them was evidently not <\/em>the idea of being in the hands of someone who loved Him. <\/em>He, in fact, insisted three times <\/em>on being in her unconsecrated (ie. not sacramentally ordained) hands. Second, at the very Mass where St. Faustina is making reparation for “all offenses and acts of disrespect”, the Lord is not offended to have touched her hands. In fact, He “desired” it. Now, none of this is to say that Jesus was indicating a preferred change in the liturgical practice of the day (Communion on the tongue), but that Our Eucharistic Lord, simply, “rests” with the one who reverently loves<\/em> Him, and yes, even in their hands.<\/p>\n To those who are appalled by these accounts, I would also turn your attention to Sacred Scripture where Jesus appears to the Twelve after His Resurrection. While still in a state of doubt, <\/em>Jesus invites Thomas to place his fingers<\/em> into Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side; do not be faithless, but believing.” (John 20:27)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n And then there was a woman “who was a sinner” who entered the house where Jesus was. She…<\/p>\n …brought an alabaster flask of ointment, and standing behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment. (Luke 7:39)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The Pharisees were disgusted. “If this man were a prophet, he would have known who and what sort of woman this is who is touching<\/em> him, for she is a sinner.”[1]<\/sup><\/a>v. 39<\/span><\/span>\n
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Another time, St. Faustina attended Mass with the intention of making reparation for offences against God<\/em>. She wrote:<\/p>\n\n
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His side, the very place where the Blood and Water gushed forth (symbolic of the Sacraments).<\/p>\n\n
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