Sister Faustina Kowalska: Her LIfe and MIssion

and I fo u n d myseCf powerless. ‘Then I fieard these words, 'you intend to leave the chapel hut you sha ll not g e t away from Me, fo r / am everywhere, you cannot do anything o f yourself, but w ith me you can do a ll things /' (Diary, Notebook I, para. 429). This tex t is unclear, for S is te r F au s tin a does no t define w ha t the "great" p lans of God for h e rse lf were. She confines he rse lf to giving h e r own reaction in answer to God’s call. The reade r has difficulty in resisting the impression th a t she is try ing to hide by silence, to wipe out of h e r consciousness the reque s t of the Lord she had heard . Nor did she only in he r Diary avoid speaking of w ha t had happened. When she next went to confession to F a th e r Sopocko, she also kep t s ilen t about it, only revealing to him the s ta te of he r soul: "When, in the course o f the week, I went to see my confessor [Fa ther Sopocko]/ and revealed the condition o f my sou l to him, especially the fa c t that I was avoiding interior conversations zvith Qod, I was told that I must not shrink^from interior conversations zvith Qod, hut should listen intently to the words die speaks to me." (Diary, Notebook I, para. 430). So we still have no information as to w ha t gave S ister F au s tina such a deep shock to h e r psyche. I t is no t un til an en try for 9th Ju n e th a t we find in the D iary a mention which can throw light on th is reques t of Jesus. But he re too the fact th a t she is no t telling everything is obvious: °J4s I was walking through the garden in the evening, I heard these words: ,(By your entreaties, you and your 223