Sister Faustina Kowalska: Her LIfe and MIssion

a nd he ordered her to throw the d iary into the fire, which she did. I told her tha t she had not done well, tha t th is had been a temptation from the devil, and. I requested her to try to re-create wha t she could remember from tha t diary, a n d to continue to write a d ia ry”. Obedient to th e command of h e r confessor, S ister F au s tin a went back to h e r writing. She began h e r diary again on 28th Ju ly 1934. "I am to zvrite cfozim", she says a t the beginning, "the encounters o f my sou l zvith you , O Qod, at the moments o f you r special visitations. I am to zvrite ahout you , O Incomprehensible in mercy tozvards my poor souf... I have received this order through him zvho is fo r me you r representative here on earth, zvho interprets yo u r holy ‘W itt to me. Jesus, y o u see hozv difficult is fo r me to zvrite, hozv unahle I am to pu t dozvn clearly zvhat, I e?(perience in my soul. O Qod, can a pen zvrite dozvn that fo r zvhich many a time there are no zvordsF (But yo u give me the order to zvrite, O Qod; that is enough fo r me." Bu t the w riting she now undertook was much more complicated and a fa r more difficult ta sk th an i t was before. I t was necessary to harmon ize the description of w ha t was cu rren tly happen ing with w ha t had gone before. Not having divided h e r Diary into two halves, S is te r F au s t in a mixed up th e two accounts. And because she wrote episodically, forced to b reak off, she often re tu rn ed to the same them e ye t again, to finish or to supplement it. Th is has had an effect upon the clarity of the tex t, for passages from the former p a r t a re en tered w ithout preamble into cu rren t m a tte rs , and th e boundary between them is so imprecise th a t i t is 6 Sister 161