Sister Faustina Kowalska: Her LIfe and MIssion

allow the wound to heal. Indeed, directly a fte r the confession, S ister F au s tina made a strong resolution: "faithfulness to inner in sp ira t io n se ven though I zvould have no idea hozv much I zvould have to pay fo r it." (Diary, Notebook I, para . 176). I t tu rned ou t to be unenforceable, for she had no t found a confessor who would agree to d irect her. Ne ither the confessors in Warsaw , nor h e r superior had ye t adopted a decisive s tandpo in t on th e m a t te r of h e r sp iritua l life. The ir doubts communicated themselves to her. Nevertheless, although she still struggled with doubts, they had a somewhat different character. The opinion of F a the r E lter left its trace in h e r soul. The doubts never regained the s treng th they had formerly, when they were able to shake h e r sp iritua l life to its very foundations. This a t le a s t was not Plock, where the m is tru s t of F au s tina h e rse lf was fairly widespread. At p resen t she found support in the person of Mother M argaret, the Directress of h e r th ird probation, and then next in the Novice M istress in Cracow, S is ter Mary Joseph. Both of them tre a ted S ister F au s tin a ’s inner life seriously and with confidence in her. Of Mother Margaret, w rites S is te r Fau s tina , "zvhen I ashed her ahout some particulars concerning progress in the spiritual life, this holy ‘Mother anszvered everything zvith great clarity. She sa id to me, ' I f you continue cooperating zvith Qod's grace in this zvay, Sister, you zvill he only one step azvay from close union zvith fod . .. ‘yo u r characteristic trait should he faithfulness to the 128