Sister Faustina Kowalska: Her LIfe and MIssion

Faus tina in the face of approaching death . From Mother Irene Krzyzanowska and F a th e r Michael Sopocko, we know th a t she knew the da te of h e r death. Her departure was like a g rea te r and g rea te r falling towards God. F a the r Sopocko said th a t when he saw he r for the la s t time on 26th September, i.e., ten days before she died, she did no t w an t to ta lk to him. She told him th a t she had said everything she had to say, and now "she was busy communing with h e r Heavenly Father". F a th e r Sopocko said th a t she gave him the "impression of a superna tu ra l being." Holiness rad ia ted s ti o on po e w v e e r n fu o ll f y th fr o o s m e h w e h r o th h a a d t i b t e b e r n ok me o d s o t w m n is th tr e us o tf p u p l os o if her. S ister F aus tina died in h e r convent, among h e r own. On 17th September they brought he r from the hospital to h e r home, the convent, where she lived for two and a h a lf weeks more. She had p u t all h e r earth ly affairs in order some months earlier in the re tre a ts she had made a t the end of 1937 and in 1938. In h e r Diary, under the da te 22nd October 1937, we find the following: 'In the meditation on death, I prepared myseCf as i f fo r real death. I examined my conscience and searched aCCmy affairs at the approach o f death and, thanks he to grace, my affairs zvere directed tozvard that ultimate goal." (Diary, Notebook V, para. 1343). Three months la ter, she was repeating: In the meditation on death, I asked the Lord to deign to fiCCmy heart zvith those sentiments zvhich I zviCChave a t the moment o f my death. A n d through Qod's grace I received an interior reply that I had done zvhat zvas zvitfun my pozver and so could he at peace." (Diary, Notebook V, para. 1551). 374