Pillars of Fire In My Soul

certain Sisters of the Congregation of Our Lady of Mercy) and in the year 1953 forbade the introduction of the Divine Mercy Image into churches, as coming from a private unver- ified revelation. Only after separating this devotion from private revelations and basing it on the Gospel and liturgy was it possible to obtain a recommendation for all pastors of souls in the country to solemnly observe Low Sunday with worship of God in His Mercy, which pours itself out upon the world in the sacrament of baptism and penance. This occurred thanks to an article entitled “The Spirit of the Liturgy of Low Sunday,” a copy of which I’m sending along with this letter and which I authorize you to publish. The image is also to come from public revelation (John 20, 19 ff). That’s why I had to provide a background of the doors of the Cenacle (which besides is consonant with Sister Faustina’s thought [mind]). Copies of this image that you asked for I enclose herewith, as also of the Kazimirowski prototype, which is the most correct one. Were someone to paint, he ought to take the prototype as his model, for the new image by Slendzinski is likewise not the ideal one, nor is the + agiewniki one [ideal]). In this first one [painting] of Slendzinski there is still a lot of “feminism” (the right hand is too far away from the body, the head is unnecessarily inclined, the right foot catches too much attention and the rays are too faint [indistinct, weak]). The Hyla image must have been painted in 1946, since I already found it in 1947 and I ascertained the following defi- ciencies: blatant feminism, the whole figure is curved (as though dancing); the right hand raised too high, expressing action (drama or comedy), and not composure [serenity]; the rays overly materialistic, like ropes; a skittish look directed somewhere into space; an inappropriate background (formerly there were flowers, and now a tile floor and the blue of the sky — no logic). The image should represent Christ at the moment of institut- ing the sacrament of penance with the words “Peace to you!”: 82 Pillars of Fire in My Soul