Sister Faustina Kowalska: Her LIfe and MIssion

The incidents concern Holy Communion. A p r ie s t took I t to the sick th ree to four times weekly. This was no t enough for S is te r Faus tina . She so longed for Je su s in the Eucharis t, to be able to go daily, th a t she tried to go to th e chapel in the morn­ ings. The doctor was opposed to h e r going ou t in the morning chill, sometimes in ra in or snow, and to the effort involved. He agreed unwillingly, evidently unde r some compulsion. '‘Today, when the doctor making fiis rounds came to see me, fie somehow d idn 't tike tfie way I Cooked. faturaCCy, I was suffering more, and so my temperature had gone up considerably. ConsequentCy, he decided I must not go down fo r TfoCy Communion untiC my temperature dropped to normaC... ‘When the doctor Ceft, I sa id to the Lord, "Jesus, now i t is up to f o u whether I shad go or not'... In the evening I said to the Lord, 'Jesus, i f my Communions are pleasing to fo u , I 6eg f o u humhCy, grant that I have not one degree o f fever tomorrow morning." In the morning ... there wasn 't even one degree o f fever. I jumped to my fe e t a t once and went to JToCy Communion. “When the doctor came and I told him that I had not had even one degree o f fever, and so had gone to Holy Communion, he was surprised. I hegged him not to make it difficult fo r me to go to TfoCy Communion, f o r it wou ld have an adverse effect on the treatment. The doctor answered, 'fo r peace o f conscience and at the same time to avoid difficulties fo r yourself, Sister, let us make, the foLow ing agreement: when the weather is fine , and i t isn 't raining, and you f e e l aCC right, then, Sister, please go; hut you must weight these matters in your conscience." (Diary, Notebook II, p a ra . 878). 279