Sister Faustina Kowalska: Her LIfe and MIssion

zvill be able to beseech the Lo rd Jesus and arrange these things fo r me. Something keeps tetCing me that you w i l l be abte to obtain this fo r me." I answered her zvith equal frankness that, yes, I feCt in my sou l that after my death I wou ld be able to obtain more from the Lord Jesus than a t the present time. 7 w i l l remember you Sister, before Jdis throne." (Diary, Notebook VI, para. 1614). The second reques t was of a different na tu re : "‘When I entered the neighbouring dormitory to visit the sisters who were ill, one o f them sa id to me, "Sister, when you die I uh ll not fea r you a t all. Come to see me after you die, because I wan t to confide to you a secret concerning my soul, something I w an t you to settle fo r me zvith the Lord Jesus. I know you can obtain this from Slim." (Diary, Notebook VI, para . 1615). There were sim ilar requests from o ther sisters, so there is no need to linger over these. Those which I have cited supply sufficient of the atmosphere which had grown around the invalid S is te r Faustina . I t is not sufficient for us to observe the sp iritua l po r tra i t of S is te r F au s tin a towards the end of h e r life only from the exterior, on the bas is of h e r companions’ impressions. After all, we have accompanied h e r through h e r successive sp iritua l transfo rm a tions , so th a t we wish to rem a in in close contact w ith h e r un til dea th itself. Let us therefore come back to th e problems of h e r in terio r life and the final m a tu r ing before he r death. As I have already w ritten in a preceding chapter, the re tre a ts she had in October 1937 and in 1938 before 365