Sister Faustina Kowalska: Her LIfe and MIssion

is your Master and your communing zvith Slim is neitfier daydreaming nor hysteria nor illusion. “Know that you are on the right path. Tlease try to he fa i th fu l to these graces; you are not free to shun them, f o u do not need a t all, Sister , to ted your superiors ahout these interior graces, unless the Lord Jesus instructs you clearly to do so, and even then you should f ir s t consult zvith your confessor. ‘Bu t i f the Lord Jesus demands something external in this case, after consulting your confessor, you should carry out zvhat Jle asks o f you, even i f this costs you greatly. On the other hand, you must te ll your confessor everything. There is ahsolutely no other course fo r you to take, Sister. Tray that you may f i n d a spiritual director, or else you zvill zvaste these great g i f ts o f Qod. I repeat once again, he a t peace; you are follozving the right path. Lake no heed o f anything else, hut alzvays he fa i th fu l to the Lord Jesus, no matter zvhat anyone says ahout you.' (Diary, Notebook I, para . 174). The p ries t replied with all the weight of h is au tho rity to all the problems successively p u t forward by S is ter Faustina . He evaded no problem, he was not h e s itan t , nor did he leave any th ing unsa id . He gave h is pen iten t clear directions as to how she was to conduct herself, both towards Je su s and towards h e r superiors or other sisters, and also how to ta lk to h e r confessor. This confession was a tu rn ing -po in t in S ister F au s ­ t in a ’s sp iritua l life. For th e f i r s t time since the problem had arisen , h e r doubts were definitely quashed, and S ister F au s t in a found h e r Lord again. Now she knew wha t to do. However, th is did not get r id of th e doubts forever. Fed by the m is tru s t of h e r superiors, doubts did not 127