Sister Faustina Kowalska: Her LIfe and MIssion

redemption of souls. He thu s desired to have h e r even closer to Him th a t she had h ithe rto been, so close th a t she could not only freely survey the whole "breadth and depth" of His Mercy, bu t, by immersing he rse lf in Him, scoop up a full measure for o ther souls. Je su s prepared h e r for th is work a t length and slowly, and His teach ing ran concurrently with the pa in ting of the image, augm en ting and explaining more fully the substance in the vision of His face seen by h e r in the revelation a t Plock. The core of His teaching was the question of the salvation of hum an souls. In newer and y e t fresher lights He showed S ister F aus tina the action of His Mercy, and a t the same time He asked with g rea te r and g rea te r insistence th a t she should commit he rse lf ye t more fully. How closely His reques t conformed to the intention of serving Him which S is te r F au s t in a had earlier announced! God was actually adap ting H imself to he r will! He had simply accepted th e gift offered to Him so often of loving readiness, and in tu rn was now making h e r aware of w ha t He wanted from her. And because He had h e r agreement, He began the teach ing which would prepare h e r for th is work In order to see the way in which Je su s prepared S is te r F aus tina for th is mission, we m u s t go back to the time when, a fte r h e r mystical n igh ts were over, she a tta in ed union with God. The consciousness of the presence of God and life in Him had a t the time possessed h e r with g rea te r and g rea te r clarity, and her loving and adoring though ts h ad centred on the Holy T rinity , a ttem p ting clumsily to pene tra te Its mysterious life. When she was once adoring, she writes: 7 absolutely wanted to know and fa thom who Qod is... In an instant my spirit was caught up into what seemed to he the ne?ct world. I saw an inaccessible light, and in this light what appeared like three sources o f 172