Sister Faustina Kowalska: Her LIfe and MIssion

This chap ter contains the description of the Passion of Christ, from the scourging, through the sentencing to dea th , to the la s t words and death , the opening of Je su s ’ side, the tak ing down from the cross and burial. As meditation , Je su s suggested: 'Consider M y Sorrozvful ‘Passion in a d its immensity. Consider i t as i f i t had Been undertaken fo r your sake alone/ For the second meditation: 'Consider the rule and the vows which you have offered to Me.' The teach ing of Jesu s , in summ ing up the whole day’s meditation, ins truc ted h e r how F au s tin a was to save souls. t You w id save more souCs through prayer and suffering than w id a missionary through his teachings and sermon alone. I w an t to see you as a sacrifice o f living love, which only then carries weight Before Me. ‘you must Be annihilated, destroyed, living as i f you were dead in the most secret depths o f your Being, you must Be destroyed in that secret depth where the human eye has never penetrated; then w id I f in d in you a pleasing sacrifice, a holocaust... JAndgreat zv id Be your powerfo r whomever you intercede. Outwardly, your sacrifice must Cook, hke this: silent, hidden, permeated w ith love, imbued zvith prayer... I zv id not spare M y grace, that you may be able to fu lf id what I demand o f you. I zv id now instruct you on zvhat your holocaust shad consist of, in everyday life, so as to preserve you from 369