Sister Faustina Kowalska: Her LIfe and MIssion

THE VISION IN PLOCK Halfway through 1930, S is te r F au s t in a found h e rse lf in Plock, assigned to work in the kitchen. As Plock played a key role in h e r life - for i t was he re th a t she received from J e su s h e r chief mission in life - le t us look more closely a t the conditions of h e r life in the convent there. We are told of them by S ister Joachim G., then employed in th e bakery. "Kitchen work there required great resilience and patience. The kitchen formed a corridor through which everyone passed. The entire House and a ll its affairs had to pass through it." "And it was so narrow", added S is ter P.K., "that one had to have absolutely angelic virtue not to be angry w ith those going through, who constantly jo s tled (S ister Faustina), and there was no other way. We were always being sum ­ moned to the gate by bells, and she was always smiling, calm, and not showing tha t it bothered her; only later, when another sister replaced her - after S ister Faustina had gone away - the complaints and lamentations began, tha t it couldn’t go on like that... Then our eyes were opened to how much she could p u t up with, but she never showed her annoyance w ith so much as a word or a look." (Archives of S.F., Recollections). Bu t the constan t effort, unavoidable in such working conditions, proved too much for S is te r Faus tina . I t was 107