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answered in this way, “Do not be surprised. That soul does not even know her own self, so how
could she pass a fair judgment on another soul?”
III B.18 Amidst Adversity, Doubt, and Fear
(18.1) “Oh, How Good it is to Act Under God’s Inspiration” (Diary, # 1377)
Sr. Faustina wrote in her Diary:
On November 5 morning, five unemployed men came to the gate and insisted on
being let in. When Sister N. had argued with them for quite a while and could not
make them go away, she then came to the chapel to find Mother [Irene], who told
me to go. When I was still a good way from the gate I could hear them banging
loudly. At first, I was overcome with doubt and fear, and I did not know whether
to open the gate or, like Sister N., to answer them through the little window. But
suddenly I heard a voice in my soul saying, “Go and open the gate and talk to
them as sweetly as you talk to Me.” I opened the gate at once, approached the
most menacing of them, and began to speak to them with such sweetness and
calm that they did not know what to do with themselves. And they too began to
speak gently and said, “Well, it’s too bad that the convent can’t give us work.”
And they went away peacefully. I felt clearly that Jesus, whom I had received in
Holy Communion just an hour before, had worked in their heart