Pillars of Fire In My Soul

the right hand at the height of the shoulder, the eyes directed downward; the whole figure frontally expresses and bestows peace; the rays should be directed towards the onlooker, and not towards the ground. The background [should be] dark or [there should be the] doors of the Cenacle. The image is to be the visual commentary of the liturgy of Low Sunday: “I saw water...” “Three there are that give witness...” (the reading), the institution of the sacrament of penance [reconciliation] (the gospel). ... III. (A letter to the same Rev. Father Julian from Bialystok dated September 18, 1956, re-emphasizes:) Please take as the pattern for the new image the photograph of Mr. Kazimirowski’s image, a print of which I am enclosing. One needs very much to retain Sister Faustina’s mind [view] (the walking position, the right hand not going above the shoul- der, the eyes looking downward, the rays in the direction of the viewer, and not toward the ground as in the + agiewniki image). Sr. Faustina actually speaks of a pale [colorless] ray although sometimes she expresses herself that it’s white. ... IV. The matter of the correctness of the Image of The Divine Mercy (Written in Bialystok, November 25, 1958) 1. Upon my request Mr. Eugene Kazimirowski began the painting of the image on January 2, 1934. Sister Faustina of blessed memory with the permission of the Superior, Mother Irene, came once or twice a week to the painter’s studio (in the company of another sister) and imparted instructions, how this image is to look. For several months the painter was unable to satisfy the author, who became sad on that account, and it was at this time that she wrote in her diary: “Once Divine Mercy … We Trust in You! 83