Saint Faustina was a great devotee of Jesus present in the Blessed Sacrament from her early years. It was before Jesus hidden in the white consecrated Host that she first experienced God’s love and internally heard the invitation to a more perfect life. As a young woman, she made a private vow of chastity before the Blessed Sacrament, and later in the convent, she spent all her free time in the chapel before the tabernacle. “I will not let myself be so absorbed in work’s whirl that I forget about God,” she confessed. “I spend all my free moments at the feet of the Master hidden in the Blessed Sacrament. He has been teaching me since my earliest years” (Diary 82).

“O Lord, I see clearly,” she sincerely admitted to Jesus in prayer, “that my life from the first moment my soul could know You has been a constant battle, growing ever more intense. Every morning during meditation I prepare for battle for the whole day, and Holy Communion is my assurance that I will win – and it happens so. I fear the day I do not have Holy Communion. This Bread of the strong gives me all the strength to carry out this work, and I have the courage to do all the Lord demands. The courage and strength that dwell in me are not mine, but His who dwells in me – this is the Eucharist” (Diary 91).

At the end of her life, she wrote: “I see myself so weak that if it were not for Holy Communion, I would fall constantly. Only one thing holds me up: Holy Communion. From it I draw strength, in it is my power. I fear life on days without Holy Communion. I am afraid of myself. Jesus hidden in the Host is everything to me. From the tabernacle I draw strength, power, courage, and light; in moments of anguish, I seek comfort there. I could not give glory to God without the Eucharist in my heart.”

Her love for Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament was also expressed by the fact that she added “of the Blessed Sacrament” to her name and desired her yearly patron to be: Jesus-Eucharist. Read more