Sister Faustina Kowalska: Her LIfe and MIssion

'Once when I saw how much my confessor was to suffer Because o f this worl c which Qod was going to carry out through him, fea r seized me fo r tfie moment, and I sa id to the Lord, "Jesus, this is fo u r affair, so why are f o u acting this way towards him? I t seems to me that f o u are making difficulties fo r him while a t the same time ordering him to act." (Diary, Notebook I, para . 86). God did no t leave h e r w ithou t an answer in a m a t te r so im po rtan t to her. But before we give the answer, le t us tell the story of the event itself. F a th e r Sopocko had asked S ister F au s tina to pray for him. She relates: "I promised to pray, and asked fo r a mortification. ‘When I received permission fo r a certain mortification, I f e l t a great desire to give up a ll the graces that Qod's goodness would intend fo r me that day in fa vo r o f that priest, and I asked the Lord Jesus to deign to Bestow on me a l l the sufferings and afflictions, Both exterior and spiritual, that the priest wou ld have had to su ffer that day. Qod partially answered my request and, a t once, a ll sorts o f difficulties and adversities sprang up out o f nowhere, so much so that one o f the sisters remarked out loud that the Lord Jesus must have a hand in this Because everyone was trying Sister Faustina... what some sisters pu t forward, others denied, while I offered a ll this in silence on Behalf o f the priest. !But that was not all; I Began to experience inner sufferings. IFirst, I was seized By depression and aversion towards the sisters, then a k ind o f uncertainty Began to trouBle me. I could not recollect myself during prayer, and various things wou ld take hold o f my mind. ‘When, 181