Helen Kowalska of Poland
was born in 1905.
She’d spread God’s message of mercy,
to her people struggling to survive.
 
God chose this humble servant
of poor but pious parents.
while they living in troubled time;
their land threatened by tyrants.
 
While Helen was at a party,
she was 18 years old,
Our Lord called her to holiness.
Her life’s mission would soon unfold.
 
“Go to the city of Warsaw,
you will enter a convent there”
Jesus told Helen Kowalska.
their habit she’d one day wear.
 
The Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy
was the order to which she’d belong.
There Helen would learn of forgiveness
from Jesus, who had been wronged.
 
Helen’s name was changed to Faustina
as she professed her vows as a sister.
She was instructed to write in her diary
all that Jesus would whisper.
 
Sister Faustina soon realized
what Jesus wanted her to do;
to tell the world of His mercy
and follow Him who makes all things new.
 
God wants us to love one another
and forgive as He forgives us.
Pray and always remember
it is in Jesus whom we should trust!

(C) Joni J. Seith, 2005 
This poem and picture of St. Faustina is just one of forty saints 
found in Joni’s books, Cloud of Witnesses I & II 
For more information on theses soft cover children’s saint books
please email jonijseith@gmail.com