Sister Faustina Kowalska: Her LIfe and MIssion

which the o ther sisters also h ad to face. They often spoke of th is, and S ister F au s tin a shared with them the knowledge she had obtained a t the foot of the Blessed Sacrament; in its way, i t was a discreet form of apostolate. I t once happened , for example, th a t "one o f the younger S isters came weeping, saying that the S is ter in charge o f the garden had gone to the town and left her w ith orders to do such a mass o f work tha t she d id not know where to begin. S ister Faustina told her, "Sister, p ray for a moment, then th ink which is the most importan t job and do tha t w ithout th ink ing about any th ing else. When you have done it, th ink what is the next most urgent and do tha t ." (Archives of S.F., Recollections s.D.). Another time S is te r F au s tin a asked S ister P. du ring recreation w ha t work she h ad to do today. She an s ­ wered, "I have the hard task o f watering the young trees and m y hands are pa in fu l because o f it." She en­ couraged me to do it in the sp irit o f penance and to offer my labour for the sin s o f humanity. La ter in the evening, she asked me i f I remembered what she had sa id during recreation." Work faced S is ter F au s t in a w ith serious problems o ther th an spiritual. I t was also the source of many m isunderstand ings with those around her. There were two conflicting and completely opposed standpoints. Some of the S isters, hav ing seen th a t h e r method of combining p raye r with work in no way in terfered with th e ir duties, were a t tra c ted to h e r ways. O thers though t she was insufficiently productive, th e more so as she had poor hea lth , which made them d is trus tfu l of h e r ability to do enough. In addition, "she wanted only 407