Sister Faustina Kowalska: Her LIfe and MIssion

tool c. place in my soul. A f te r a while I slipped out unnoticed, leaving my sister and a ll my companions behind and made my way to the Cathedral o f Saint Stanislaus %ostka. I t zvas already beginning to grow light; there zvere only a f e w people in the Cathedral P‘ aying no attention to what was happening around me, I f e l l prostrate before the (Blessed Sacrament and begged the Lord to be good enough to give me to understand what I should do ne?tt. ‘Then I heard these words: Qo at once to ‘Warsaw; you iv ill enter a convent there. (Diary, Notebook I, paras. 9,10) Je su s ’ direct appeal overcame all Helenka’s interior opposition. She did not know, indeed, how she was to accomplish His Will, where and to which convent she was to go, b u t she tru s ted in Him. She tru s ted w ithout reservations th a t if Je su s had called her, He would tell he r w ha t to do next. In any case, on the way to Him, there is an unfailing help - the Holy Mother Mary. She would ask her. Thus began Helenka’s arduous pa th to the convent. 40