Sister Faustina Kowalska: Her LIfe and MIssion

standing before 9dim as a victim offering. A t first, I zvas quite frightened as I feCt myseCf to be so utterCy miserable and knezv very zveCC that this zvas the case. I anszvered the Lord once again, "I am misery itseCf; fiozv can I be a hostage fo r others?' 'you. do not understand this today. Lbmorrozv, during your adoration. I zviCCmake i t knozvn to you.'... ‘When I came to the adoration, I feCt zvithin my souC that I had entered the tempCe o f the Civing Qod, zvhose majesty is great and incomprehensible... Although I sazv nothing externally, Qod’s presence pervaded me. Lit that very moment my intellect zvas strangely illumined. A vision passed before my eyes o f my soul; it zvas like the vision Jesus had in the f a r den o f Olives, f i r s t , the physical sufferings and a ll the circumstances that zvould increase them; [then] the f u l l scope o f the spiritual sufferings and those that no one zvould knozv about. ‘Everything entered into the vision: false suspicions, loss o f good name... M y name is to be: “sacrifice . ‘When the vision ended, a cold szveat bathed my forehead. Jesus made i t knozvn to me that, even i f I d id not give my consent to this, I could s t i l l be saved; and Me zvould not lessen Mis graces, but zvould s t i l l continue to have the same intimate relationship zvith me, so that... fo d 's generosity zvould not lessen thereby. A n d the Lord gave me to knozv that the zvhole mystery depended on me, on my free consent to the sacrifice given zvith f u l l use o f my faculties. In this free and conscious act lies the zvhole pozver and value before Mis Majesty... A t that moment, I realized I zvas entering into communion zvith the incomprehensible Majesty. I f e l t that f o d zvas zvaiting 138