Sister Faustina Kowalska: Her LIfe and MIssion

grant me the grace o f purity o f heart, souC and Body. ‘Defend me zvith ‘Your power against a d enemies...’ (Diary, Notebook I, para. 79). We find a mention th a t th is ferven t prayer, which was often repea ted in various forms, had been answered in the diary en try where S ister F aus tina recalls the renewal of the annua l vows in 1929. In describing the events of th a t day, she sta tes th a t from then on 7 have never experienced any attacks against this virtue, either in my heart or in my mind. I Cater under­ stood that this was one o f the greatest graces which the ‘Most OdoCy Virgin had obtained fo r me, as fo r many years I had been asking this grace o f Oder. She has taught me haw to Cove Qod interiorCy and aCso haw to carry out Odis haCy zviCC in aCC things.' (Diary, Notebook I, para . 40). S ister F au s tina re tu rned once more to the theme of her own virginal life in h e r diary a year and a h a lf before h e r dea th . In April 1937, she wrote: "‘When, one day, Qodgave me the inner knowCedge that I had never Cost my innocence, and that despite aCC dangers in which I had fo u n d myseCf, Ode OdimseCf had been guarding me so that the virginity o f my souC and heart wouCd remain intact. I spent the day in fervent interior thanksgiving. I thanked Qod that Ode had been pCeased to protect me from eviC, and aCso fo r this: that I had fo u n d fa vo r in OCis eyes... A n d a f e w years Cater, Ode deigned to confirm me in this grace, and since that time I have not e?perienced the rebeCCion o f the senses 345