Sister Faustina Kowalska: Her LIfe and MIssion

M Ostra (Brama, during these three days, the closing o f the Jubilee o f the Redemption o f the ‘World was being celebrated, marking the nineteen hundred years that have passed since the (Passion o f our Savior." (Diary, Notebook I, para. 88/9). "On the eve o f the exposition o f the image, I went zvith our (Mother Superior to visit our confessor [Father Sopocko]. When the conversation touched upon the image, the confessor asked fo r one o f the sisters to help make some zvreaths. (Mother Superior replied, "Sister (Faustina zvill help." I was delighted at this and when we returned home, I immediately set about preparing some greens, and zvith the help o f one o f our wards brought them over. Slnother person, who works at the church, also helped. ‘Everything was ready by seven o 'clock, that evening, and the image was already hanging in its place. (However, some ladies saw me standing around there... and on the next day they asked the sisters what this beautiful image was and wha t was its significance. Surely these sisters would know, [they thought] as one o f them had helped adorn i t the day before. Ehe sisters were very surprised as they knew nothing about it; they a ll wan ted to see it and im­ mediately they began to suspect me. ‘They said, "Sister (Faustina must certainly know a ll about it." When they began asking me, I was silent, since I could not tell the truth. (My silence increased their curiosity, and I was even more on my gua rd not to tell a lie and not to tell the truth since I had no permission [to do so]. rKhen they started to show their displeasure and reproached me openly saying, "(How is it that 208