Sister Faustina Kowalska: Her LIfe and MIssion

take them too seriously, and it would be better even to ignore them. (But you should not make- this decision by yourself, either one zvay or the other, as you can easily be led astray despite these great favours from Qod. :Humility, humility, and ever humility, as we can do nothing o f ourselves; a ll is purely and simply Qod's grace . ' (Diary, Notebook I, para. 55). Confession to F a the r Andrasz was not, for Sister Faustina , a single occurrence, strictly circum stantial, as it had been with F a th e r Elter. As long as she remained in Cracow, she always had the chance to ask th is confessor for counsel. As for a lmost a month after he r final vows her fate was undecided - no decision had been taken about to which House she was to be sen t - she went to confession to him a few more times. These confessions varied. She did not always go in a positive frame of mind. She adm its th a t once she came to a downright negative decision. Bu t F a th e r Andrasz opposed h e r categorically. S ister F au s tin a writes: "Once, exhausted because o f these various difficulties which had befallen me because o f what Jesus had said to me and what (He had demanded o f me fo r the painting o f this image, I made up my m ind to approach Ifather (Andrasz before my perpetual vows and to ask. him to dispense me from a ll these interior inspirations and from the duty o f painting this image. (After having heard my confession, IFcither (Andrasz gave me this answer: 7 w i l l dispense you from nothing, Sister; it is not right fo r you to turn away from these interior inspirations, bu t you... must speak, about them to your confessor... ° 134