Sister Faustina Kowalska: Her LIfe and MIssion

life. Interiorly, h e r soul was already purified and developed for close intimacy with Him after the ex­ perience of he r dark nights of the soul. But ye t ano ther tr ia l was awaiting h e r - a very difficult one - the m is tru s t of those people to whom she was directly subject: h e r confessors and superiors. The ir m is tru s t was so serious as to sway h e r own certa in ty th a t she hea rd the voice of God in h e r soul. This is a long story, which will be th e subject of the nex t chapter. I t continued for more th an two years, a t the end of which Je su s hea rd h e r prayer: f irs t He answered he r directly, and then through the mouths of two successive priests. At last, in 1933, S ister F au s t in a found h e r proper sp iritual director: he was F a th e r Michael Sopocko, the confessor of the sisters in Vilnius. 104