Sister Faustina Kowalska and her first Miracles
Sister Faustina and her first Miracles
Sister Faustina quietly went into her cell and threw herself on the floor in prayer.
She wanted desperately to know God’s Will.
Suddenly the room became so bright, it was like daylight. She saw the sorrowful Face of Jesus on the curtain4 of her cell. "There were open wounds on His Face, and large tears were falling on my bedspread. Not knowing what all this meant, I asked Jesus, `Jesus, who has hurt you so?’"
Our Lord spoke to Helen: "`It is you who will cause Me this pain if you leave this convent. It is to this place that I called you and nowhere else; and I have prepared many graces for you.’" Sister Faustina took this as a definite sign that the Lord wanted her to be in this place.
While there was no way for her to know all that Jesus had in store for her, in hindsight we can see the whole perspective of what was to come through this servant.
But the Lord insisted on her cooperation, her Yes! The following morning, she confessed all to her confessor who affirmed the Lord wanted her to remain with this Congregation.
Shortly after this, Sister Faustina was sent to a vacation house of the Community in a suburb of Warsaw called Skolimow.
She was worn out. Apparently the rigor of religious life, while it could not have been as physically strenuous as her life as a domestic, did take its toll on her.
She was not very strong during her years with the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy.
At any rate, it was in this house that Helen was given a vision of Purgatory. Sister Faustina shared it in her diary: "It was at this time that I asked the Lord who else I should pray for. Jesus said that on the following night He would let me know for whom I should pray. "(The next night) I saw my Guardian Angel, who ordered me to follow him. In a moment I was in a misty place full of fire in which there was a great crowd of suffering souls.
They were praying fervently for themselves, but to no avail; only we can come to their aid.
The flames which were burning them did not touch me at all. My Guardian Angel did not leave me for an instant.
I asked these souls what their greatest suffering was. They answered me that their greatest torment was longing for God. I saw Our Lady visiting the souls in Purgatory.
The souls call her `The Star of the Sea.’ She brings them refreshment. I wanted to talk with them some more, but my Guardian Angel beckoned me to leave.
We went out of that prison of suffering. I heard an interior voice which said, `My Mercy does not want this, but Justice demands it.’"
We don’t know if the nineteen-year-old Helen understood at that moment what the Lord was saying to her, or if she realized He was preparing her for her great mission, bringing the Message of Divine Mercy to the world. But she was beginning her journey and the Lord would do the rest. Saint Sister Faustina book and dvd available 
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