divine-mercy-in-my-soul

April 3, 1927
April 16, 1928
April 20, 1928
April 30, 1928
Dec. 6-10, 1928
Sister Faustina experiences the spiritual dark night. The trial lasts
almost to the end of the Novitiate. Mother Directress, Mary Joseph
Brzoza, encourages her, excuses her from formal spiritual exercises,
and urges her to great fidelity to God (Diary I:8).
On Good Friday, the flame of Divine Love encompasses the suffering
novice. She forgets past sufferings, and she more clearly recognizes
how much Christ suffered for her (Diary I:10).
In the evening Sister Faustina, together with other sisters, begins the
retreat before taking temporary vows (Chron. III:203; Memoirs of Mother
Michael, p.3; Diary I:11).
Sister Faustina makes her first profession of temporary vows, which she
will renew each year for five years, until the moment when she will make
her perpetual vows (Cracow Chron. III:203; Memoirs of Mother Michael,
p.3).
At the General Chapter of the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of
Mercy, Mother Michael Moraczewska is elected Mother General (Cracow
Chron. III:210). [Mother Michael will be Superior throughout Sister
Faustina‟s life. In difficult moments she will be her help and comfort.
Into her hands Sister Faustina will place her perpetual vows. Before
death she will ask pardon of the whole Congregation through Mother‟s
hands for all the failings committed during her entire religious life
(Memoirs of Mother Michael, pp. 5, 11, 12).]
October 31, 1928 Sister Faustina leaves for 3/9 Zytnia Street, Warsaw, where she is
assigned to work in the kitchen (Cracow Chron. III:212).
February 21, 1929 She leaves for Vilnius to substitute for a sister going for her third
probation (Vilnius Chron. I:9).
April 11, 1929
June 1929
July 7, 1929
October 1929
By morning train, she leaves Vilnius to return to Warsaw (Vil. Chron.
I:21).
She is assigned to work in a newly-formed house on Hetmanska Street,
Warsaw (Memoirs of Sisters).
After a few months, Sister Faustina returns to the house on 3/9 Zytnia
Street. Meanwhile the students, (wards) with whom she worked,
promise that they will follow her there (Memoirs of Sisters).
For a short while, Sister Faustina is sent to a house of the Congregation
in Kiekrz near Poznan, to substitute for an ailing sister in the kitchen
(Memoirs of Syster Xavier; letter of July 6 with no year, placed in the
memoirs; Diary I:74).
She is already back in Warsaw, as evidenced by a letter to Sister
Justine, dated October 20, 1929. (Letters #25:66).
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