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177. Sister Faustina, while making her monthly day of recollection, took advantage of
the conferences with Father Bonaventure Kadeja was giving during a retreat for the
sanatorium personnel.
178. The word “confessors” seems to indicate that the Saint was told to write the
Diary not only by Father Sopocko, but also by Father Andrasz.
179. Sister Faustina‟s spiritual director, Father Michael Sopocko, remembered her
special gifts: visions, illuminations, enlightenments, hearing inner voices, etc. She is
referring to one of these gifts here; i.e., interior knowledge of events touching people related
to her. (See A. SF. Father Sopocko‟s letter of March 7, 1972).
180. At the first profession of temporary vows the sisters received a black veil, a little
cross, a rosary and a belt. It is this cross that Sister Faustina meant.
181. The Feast of The Divine Mercy, on the first Sunday after Easter.
182. The chapel of the Congregation was open only to the sisters and wards at the
time. It was only during the German occupation that it was opened to the public.
183. The vision most likely refers to the investigations of the writings of Sister
Faustina and the mistaken interpretation of them.
184. Polish ciemnica, literally “dark cell,” denotes both the altar of Maundy Thursday
liturgy (repository) and the prison in which Jesus spent the night of His Passion.
185. Probably fragments of the liturgy of the Holy Week.
186. Father Theodore Czaputa, as the Congregation‟s chaplain, delivered a sermon
in the chapel every Sunday.
187. The Directress of Novitiate at the time was Sister Callista – Helen Piekarczyk.
Born March 30, 1900, she entered the Congregation in 1920. She succeeded Sister Mary
Joseph Brzoza as directress on December 10, 1934, and continued until September 8, 1945.
She died on September 11, 1947 (A. SMDM-C).
188. Father Sopocko‟s article in The Divine Mercy published in the Vilnius Catholic
Weekly (tygodnik Katolicki, nasz przyjaciel) on April 4, 1937, No. 14.
189. In the Cracow house, the chaplain, Father Theodore Czaputa, had weekly
lectures to the sisters on ascetical subjects. These were familiarly called “Catechism.” Sister
Faustina probably is referring to one of these.
190. Every year, besides the eight-day retreat, the sisters have a three-day retreat.
191. An eight-day retreat was being held in the house, preceding the profession of
vows and taking of the veil (April 20-29). It was conducted by Father Plaza, S.J., Superior of
the house provincial at 8 Maly Rynek, Cracow (A. SMDM-C).
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