St. Faustina Kowalska's letters published in Poland

Published: 2005-03-18

WARSAW, Poland (CNS) -- The letters of St. Faustina Kowalska, the nun whose visions gave rise to the Divine Mercy devotions, have been published in her native Poland. The volume, issued by the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy, contains 50 letters to family members, fellow nuns and her confessor, Father Michal Sopocko. In one, she describes her visions a year before her death from tuberculosis. "I now feel such a strong longing to unite myself forever with God that I'm surprised death delays in coming to me," St. Faustina wrote to the priest. "I live in one permanent act of love, but I feel my heart will not long withstand."

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