Sister Faustina Kowalska: Her LIfe and MIssion

h e r Guardian Angel, or even from Je su s Himself, though th is happened most infrequently. "‘T fe Lord Jesus makes it knozvn to me in a special zvay zvfien someone is in need o f my prayer. I especially knozv zvfien my prayer is needed by a dying soul. ‘This happens more often nozv than it d id in the past." (Diary, Notebook II, para . 820). I f e e l zhvidly and clearly that spirit zvho is asking me fo r prayer. I zvas not azvare that souls are so closely united, and often it is my Quardian A nge l zvho tells me.'1 (Diary, Notebook II, para . 828). "9dy vision is purely spiritual, by means o f a sudden light that Qod grants me at that moment... I t sometimes happens that the dying person is in the second or third building azvay, ye t fo r the spirit, space does not e?Jst. It sometimes happens that I knozv about a death occurring several hundred kilometres azvay. This has happened several times zvith regard to my fam ily and relatives and also sisters in religion, and even souls zvhom I have not knozvn during their lifetime... I have also discovered that i f I fe e l constrained to pray fo r a longer time; that is to say, I e?(perience interior unrest, the sou l is undergoing a greater struggle and is going through a longer f in a l agony. “ (Diary, Notebook II, para. 835). S ister F au s tina knew why she was so certain th a t h e r prayers would be heard . God H imself had assured h e r of it. 317