Sister Faustina Kowalska: Her LIfe and MIssion

zvas zvfeezing, and there zvere rattdng noises in my tungs and strange pains. ’ (Diary, Notebook III, paras . 1085, 1088, 1089). S is te r F au s tin a was in sp iritua l confusion. Je su s was urg ing h e r to do His will, b u t when she was ready to do so, a re tu rn of h e r illness made i t impossible. What was she to do? And then she had a sudden urge to ask Him for health: "‘When I received J(oly Communion... it zvas as i f something zvere urging me to... pray in this manner: "Jesus, may %'our pure and heaCthy blood circulate in my ailing organism, and may y'our pure and healthy 6ody transform my zveaC body, and may a healthy and vigorous life throb zvithin me, i f it is truly you r holy zvill that I should set about the zvortjin question..." As I zvas praying in this zvay, I suddenly f e l t as i f some­ thing zvere jolting my ivhole organism and, in an instant, I f e l t completely zvell. Jdy breath is clear, as i f there had never been anything the matter zvith my lungs, and I fe e l no pain, and this is a sign fo r me that I should set about the zvork... A f te r this return to health, I fo u n d myself united zvith the Lord Jesus in a purely spiritual zvay... Jesus infused my sou l zvith pozver and courage to act... Lhen I heard these zvords: ’(Jo telC the superior that you are in good heaCth." (Diary, Notebook III, para . 1089 e t seq.). From th a t moment, there were five weeks w ithout any symptoms of the disease. S ister F au s tina had For "organism” the more usua l word in English would be "body" or "constitution”. -Translator. 281