Sister Faustina Kowalska: Her LIfe and MIssion

th is disease... Dear Mother, you w ill see tha t the congregation w ill be very happy because o f me". "She d id not speak to the S isters about the extraor­ dinary grace she had received, but she only said before she died, to me: "Jesus wishes to exalt me and the Congregation w ill have many joys because o f m e ." She sa id these words with such simplicity and so k ind ly and emotionally tha t I could not sense the slightest shade o f van ity ." (Archives of S.F., Recollections). The words of S is te r F au s t in a quoted by Mother Krzyzanowska b ring back a memory. They recall a certain experience of hers some time in the period 1929-1931, and now they have risen to the rank of a symbol of the h ighes t union of the Congregation with God. "One day Jesus sa id to me,' I am going to leave this house... because there are things here zvhich displease Ode.' A n d the Ofost came out o f the tabernacle and came to rest in my hands and I, zvith joy , placed i t bach, in the tabernacle. This zvas repeated a second time, and I d id the same thing. Despite this, it happened a third time, but the Ofost zvas transformed into the living Lord Jesus, zvho said to me, 7 zv ill stay here no longer!' A t this, a pozverful love fo r Jesus rose up in my soul. I anszvered, "And I, / zvill not let f o u leave this house, Jesus!" A n d again Jesus disappeared zvhile the Olost remained in my hands. Once again T pu t it bach, in the chalice and closed it up in the tabernacle. A n d Jesus stayed zvith us." (Diary, Notebook I, para. 44). In te r alia, the task of S ister F au s t in a was to ensure th a t Je su s was in th e Congregation in the fullest 251