Sister Faustina Kowalska: Her LIfe and MIssion

Exactly a month la ter, on 29th J an u a ry 1935, the nex t vision appeared: 'T/wit same day, when I was in church waiting fo r confession, I saw the same rays issuing from the mon­ strance and spreading throughout the church. ‘This lasted a ll through the service. A f te r the ‘Benediction, [the rays shone out] to hoth sides and returned again to the monstrance. ‘Their appearance was Bright and transparent like crystal. I ashed Jesus that JTe deign to light the fire o f Jiis love in a ll souls that were cold. Beneath these rays a heart zvillgrow warm even i f it were like a Block, o f ice; even i f i t were as hard as a rock, it zvill crumBle into dust." (Diary, Notebook I, para . 370). After an interval of a couple of months, Sister Faus tina records one more vision, the la s t before the exposition of the image in the O s tra Brama Gate. This vision took place a t the end of Lent, and thu s almost immediately before th e Jub ilee celebrations. I t was closely connected with the liturgy of Good Friday and concentrated upon the person of Christ: "On fo o d ‘Triday, a t three o'clock, in the afternoon, when I entered the chapel, I heard these words: 7 desire that the image Be publicly honored.' ‘Then I saw the Lord Jesus dying on the Cross amidst great suffering, and out o f the “Heart o f Jesus came the same two rays as are in the image." (Diary, Notebook I, para. 414). The g rea tes t concentration of visions occurred in the time the image was displayed in the O stra Brama Gate. For the whole period of th e Triduum , day by day, 214