Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy

While at a dance, as a teenager, she experienced a vision of the Lord depicted in his suffering, and he asked her, how long will you keep putting me off? After this experience, she went straight to the cathedral and she prayed before the Lord in the tabernacle, asking for guidance and direction in what he was calling her to do.

She knew what he was calling her to do, but how do I do this? Eventually, the Lord led her to enter the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy, where she served for the most part either in the kitchen, in the garden, or as portress.

And St. Faustina is mostly known for receiving private revelations from the Lord concerning devotion to God's mercy, which she recorded in her diary at the request of Christ and her confessors.

In one vision she experienced, she saw an angel sent to bring God's justice upon mankind and the earth.

After all, she was an uneducated girl from the farm.

After so many rejections, Helena was feeling discouraged and prayed, saying, And then she went to another convent, the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy.

She knocked on the door and finally met with the Mother Superior and told her that she wanted to enter the convent.

The superior almost dismissed her like the others, but then said, go into the chapel and pray, and then ask Jesus if he will accept you.

But convent after convent, she was turned away because she was poor, she had no education, and she couldn't even bring a dowry.

Now, eventually, the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy accepted her, and she spent the rest of her very short life working as a cook, gardener, and the sister who answered the door.

Most of the women that she lived with had no idea what was happening between her and God.

Some of them thought that she was a little odd.

She grew up during the tough years leading up to and following the First World War and received little formal education.

She worked as a poor housekeeper before following her religious vocation at the age of 20, entering the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy in Prakow.

though she was given simple, humble jobs which hid her deep interior life.

Saint Faustina was graced with mystical visions and revelations from Jesus, as well as her guardian angel and certain saints.

During her brief stay, Helen began knocking on the door of every convent she could find, but they all turned her down.

Finally, she knocked on the door of the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy, where the Mother Superior sent her to the chapel to pray and ask Jesus if He accepted her.

Helen then went to the chapel to pose the question to Jesus, and He responded, "I do accept.

You are in my heart." When Mother Michael asked Helen what Jesus' response was, Helen told her Jesus accepted her.

Mother Michael then responded, "If the Lord has accepted, then I also will accept." To test Helen's vocation, Mother Michael sent her away for a year to make some money for her wardrobe.

Mother Michael later wrote about this encounter in her diary, stating that Helen was no one special.

After a year of working as a housemaid near Warsaw, Helen returned to the convent on August 1st, 1925, and at the age of 20 was accepted into the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy.

Of that day, she later wrote, "I felt immensely happy.