Sister Faustina Kowalska: Her LIfe and MIssion

this very day to confession; this sign uH.CC give me reassurance." A t that very moment, the girC asked to go to confession. The Mother in charge o f the cCass zvas surprised at this sudden change in her, hu t she undertook^ to caCC a priest immediately, and this person made her confession zvith great compunction. A t the same time, I heard a voice zvithin me say, ,(Do you beCieve Me nozv?' A n d once again a strange pozver pervaded my souC, strengthening and reassuring me to such a degree that I myseCf zvas surprised that I had aCCozved myseCf to douht even fo r a moment. "But these douhts aCzvays come from zvithout, a fa c t zvhich incCined me to cCose myseCf up more and more zvithin myseCf (Diary, Notebook I, para. 74). Another eighteen months or more went by for Sister F au s tina in sim ilar perplexity and wavering between the extremes of disbelief and tru s t , and simultaneously in the constan t search for ways to perform the Lord’s command. H er stay in Plock was nearing an end, as th e time for making h e r final vows approached. How would S ister F au s tin a now reply to J e su s ’ u ltim a te call to give herse lf to Him for ever? 121