Sister Faustina Kowalska: Her LIfe and MIssion

place, which ‘you have prepared fo r me from the beginning o f the world." (Diary, Notebook II, para . 909). "O bright and clear day on which a ll my dreams w ill be fulfilled; O day so eagerly desired, the last day o f my life! I loof<_ forwa rd w i th jo y to the last stroke the ‘Divine A r tis t zvill trace on my soul, which zvill give my sou l a unique beauty that zvill distinguish me from the beauty o f other souls... Ogreat day, on which divine love zvill be confirmed in me. On that day, fo r the f ir s t time I sha ll sing before heaven and earth the song o f the Lord's fathomless mercy... ‘That the song o f my soul may be pleasing to the Tloly ‘Trinity, do fo u , O Spirit o f Qod, direct and form my sou l yourself. I arm myself zvith patience and await f o u r coming, O merciful Qod, and as to the terrible pains and fea r o f death, at this moment more than at any other time, I trust in the abyss o f fo u r mercy and am reminding fo u , 0 merciful Jesus, sweet Saviour, o f a ll the promises f o u have made to me." (Diary, Notebook II, para . 825). I t is tru e th a t the problem of death en tered S ister F au s tina ’s though ts and in te re s ts through wide gates when she found he rse lf in hosp ita l - as I have already w ritten in an earlier chapter. Bu t i t was both by the will of Jesus , and in h e r own anxiety over souls which m igh t escape the merciful love of Jesu s , th a t S ister F au s tina a t th is period did no t look a t death from h e r personal viewpoint b u t objectively, assisting a t death-beds when death took others. With Ch ris t a t her side, she had come to know and become used to the dea th of others, before she began to contemplate her own. The hospital gave h e r more th an enough oppor­ tunity . Death there was a daily occurrence. 322