Sister Faustina Kowalska: Her LIfe and MIssion

bid me to tabid about tftis ‘f e a s t o f Mercy, fo r they teCC me that there is already such a fe a s t and so why should I talk. about it? f i n d Jesus sa id to me, ‘f in d who knows anything about this fea st? 9fo one! ‘Even those who should be proclaiming M y mercy and teaching people about it often do not know about i t themselves. ‘That is zvhy I want the image to be solemnly blessed on the f ir s t Sunday after Easter, and I w an t i t to be venerated publicly so tha t every sou l may know about it." Je su s encouraged S is te r F au s t in a to pray for the Holy F a th e r ’s intentions, even prescribing the way she should do so: 'Make a novena fo r the “Holy fa th er's intention. I t should consist o f thirty-three acts; tha t is, repetition that many times o f the short prayer - which I have taught you - to the EHznne Mercy.' (Diary, Notebook I, para. 341). On ano ther date, S is te r F au s t in a records a different uncertainty: "January 10,193S. Ehursday. In the evening during benediction, such thoughts as these began to distress me: Is not perhaps a ll this that I am saying about Qod's great mercy ju s t a lie or an illusion...? f in d I wan ted to think, about this fo r a while, when I heard a strong and clear inner voice saying, 'Everything that you say about M y goodness is true; language has no adequate e?(pression to e^ tol M y goodness.' ‘These words were so f i l le d zvith power and so clear that I wou ld give my life in declaring that they came from (Jod. I can tell this by the 203