Sister Faustina Kowalska: Her LIfe and MIssion

SISTER FAUSTINA, MOST FAITHFUL DAUGHTER OF THE CONGREGATION As, a t the end of th is book, we make a resume once more of what we know about S ister Faustina , we m us t fill ou t the picture of her, as a religious in the Congre­ gation of S isters of Our Lady of Mercy. She loved h e r Congregation deeply. As Je su s said, she was "its most faithful daughter". Thus the dem and of Je su s to found ano ther - which m ean t to leave th a t one - was the source for he r of profound pain. After all, He had wanted her to stay there where she had begun h e r life in the cloister; there she had lived for so many years under one roof with Him. She was eternally grateful to the Congregation for having accepted he r and then developed he r young vocation to m a tu rity . Not only was she he rse lf grateful, b u t she rem inded other sisters how much they owed to the Congregation (Arch. S.F., Recoil., S ister E.Z.) She was a nun of the second choir, so she only had manual household duties. Bu t w ithin th a t framework she had been able to find the full development of the potentiality of h e r vocation, even when i t passed the normal s ta tu s of a sister of th e second choir, i.e. when Je su s gave h e r the mission of spreading devotion to th e Divine Mercy. She was a rea l child of God, whose whole a tten tion , every though t and emotion, was concentrated upon one cen tra l problem - the relation of God and His creature - while in the course of time from w ithin th is problem arose a question which occupied th e chief place: the question of th e Divine 411