103 ulewicz played an outstanding role as the community Renovator and reformer; that the Blessed Martyrs of Rosica – Anthony Leszczewicz and George Kaszyra – can be inspirers especially of ecumenical pastoral care and of deepening the eschatological awareness of the faithful; that the mystery of the Immaculate Conception is inextricably linked and flows from the mystery of The Divine Mercy; that Mary Immaculate is “the first apostle of The Divine Mercy” and that the Marians should engage in spreading devotion to Divine Mercy and the works of mercy; that supporting the dead is one of the most important forms of realizing the Marian charism; that religious and community life and the entire Marian apostolate should flow from the charism of the Congregation and make it present. The last General Chapter (2017) declared that the Congregation recognizes as its beginning the act of the Oblatio made by our Founder in 1670, and not – as it was accepted for most of the 20th century – the canonical visitation of the Korabiew hermitage by Bishop Święcicki in 1673. The Congregation’s self-awareness expressed in the Constitutions and Directory of 2018. The reflection on the charism of the Congregation and the role of St. Stanislaus Papczyński saw their crowning moment in the Constitutions and Directory, adopted by the General Chapter of 2017 and promulgated in 2018. The Immaculate Conception of Mary as the heart of our charism has been presented in a broad and beautiful way, corresponding to contemporary theological thought and the teaching of the recent popes. The Constitution now opens with the Preamble – Invocatio Dei, in which the Marians declare: “In the name of the Triune God and for His glory, of love and reverence for the mystery of the Immaculate Conception of the Mother of our Savior, under her protection and following her example, faithful to the Holy Church, for our sanctification and the salvation of others,” they accept these Constitutions as a rule of life for living the Gospel of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Already this declaration clearly shows that the phrasings inscribed in the identity of the Congregation since the times of its Founder are perfectly harmonized with the contemporary teaching of the Church on the Immaculate Conception.
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