Sister Faustina Kowalska: Her LIfe and MIssion

"I liked to visit S ister Faustina", says h e r then superior, Mother Irene Krzyzanowska. "These visits gave me spiritual joy. Our conversations were always saturated w ith the atmosphere o f the divine. Whenever I spent a longer time w ith her, I felt the presence o f God." (Archives of S.F., Recollections). S ister Bozena still more emphatically describes the sp iritual atmosphere which S is te r F au s tina radiated: "When in 1938 I lived in close contact w ith her for two months and I observed S ister Faustina a t close hand, I simply thought she was a saint... When I returned from Cracow to Walendow to my usual duties, I felt as cheered up after two months’ fam iliarity w ith S ister Faustina, as i f I had made a successful retreat." (Archives of S.F., Recollections). More th an one of the s isters came to S ister F au s tina to ask th a t she intercede for them a t the th rone of the E terna l F a th e r a fte r h e r death . Among those who asked were not only companions from h e r own Congregation, b u t the Sacred H ea rt S isters from the hospital a t Pr^dnik. When she was approached, S is te r F au s tina atten tively bu t silently listened to those in tim a te m a tte rs of hum an souls, en tru s ted to h e r to stra igh ten out as if they were the la s t errands before she se t out on a voyage. In general she simply smiled in affirma­ tion, b u t if the mental condition of h e r client required the giving of a promise, she did not h e s ita te to give one. In he r diary, she has noted two such requests: 'Today, one on the sisters came to see me and said, Sister, I have a strange feeling, as though something were teCCing me to come to you and commend to you certain prohfems o f mine before you die, and that perhaps you 364