Sister Faustina Kowalska: Her LIfe and MIssion

"‘Today during Moly ‘Mass I experienced a strange force and urge to start realizing Qod's zvishes. I had such a clear understanding o f the things the Lord zvas ashing o f me that truly i f I zvere to say that I do not understand zvhat Qod is demanding from me, I zvould he lying, because the Lord is making Mis zvill knozvn to me so clearly and distinctly that I do not have the least shadozv o f a douht about them. I realized that it zvould be the greatest ingratitude to delay any longer this undertaking which the Lord zvishes to bring to fu lfilmen t fo r Mis glory and the benefit o f a great number o f souls... ‘Truly, hozv ungrateful my sou l zvould be to resist Qod's zvill any longer. Mpthing zvill stop me any longer, be it persecutions, sufferings,sneers, threats, entreaties, hunger, cold, flattery, friendships, adversities, friends or enemies; be it things I am experiencing nozv or things that zvill come in the fu ture or even the hatred o f hell - nothing zvill deter me from doing the zvi.ll o f Qod. I am not counting on my ozvn strength, but on Mis omnipotence for, as Me gave, me the grace o f knozving Mis holy zvill, Me zvill also grant me the grace o f fu lfilling it. I cannot f a i l to mention hozv much my ozvn lozver nature resists this thing, manifesting its ozvn desires, and there results zvithin my sou l a great struggle, like, that o f Jesus in the Qarden o f Olives. A n d so I too cry out to Qod, the ‘Eternal ‘fa ther , "If it is possible, take this cup from me, but, nevertheless, not my zvill, but fo u r s be done, O Lord; may f o u r zvill be done." ‘What I am about to go through is no secret to me, but zvith f u l l knozvledge I accept zvhatever f o u send me, O Another time, S ister F au s tina notes: 244