Pillars of Fire In My Soul

A Response to the Reservations “On the eve of the most difficult trial that the Lord God ordained to send upon our nation — having called us almost ten centuries ago to His service, it pleased Him to give us a special proof of His Mercy in order that we would turn to Him with ever-increasing trust. “For this purpose He enlisted the services of a lowly Polish girl, Helen Kowalska, in religion Sister Mary Faustina of the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy who, having spent scarcely 33 years on this earth, passed on to a better life on October 5, 1938, leaving behind her the memory of one of those souls to whom God has granted the privilege of singular graces. “The guiding thought of all the interior communica- tions which she had received from Christ the Lord was the mystery of God’s mercy and the obligation on our part to respond to it with a fullness of trust in Him. “The beautiful image of the Lord Jesus — coming out, as it were, to meet us, and opening for us His bosom, from the depths of which the rays of His graces gush forth — is to make present to our senses the mystery of The Divine Mercy, of which Jesus is the eternal and perpetual person- ification; and the various prayers and invocations, which Sister M. Faustina composed under Divine inspiration, are to rouse souls to this unbounded trust for whose propaga- tion in the midst of us all the saintly religious dedicated her life. “The work, to which God called her, silent and hidden though it was during her lifetime, is beginning to grow more robust and to touch souls, fortifying them in times of most severe divine tests, which no one lacks in these times [following the war]. And no wonder, for we find in it noth- ing that would not gush forth from the purest springs of 30 Pillars of Fire in My Soul