Father Wyszynski Pilgrimage

“I would like to find you adorned with spiritual, heavenly, and everlasting desires, not entangled in earthly and transitory matters. I hope you can present yourselves as such people during this canonical visita- tion! (…) During this visitation my task will be to evaluate everyone’s adherence to their superiors’ directives; to see if the brethren live in fraternal love and abide by our Rule and Constitutions, Papal Decrees and the Chapter’s laws. I must find out if they make retreats, pray in choir and meditate; I must know if they lead a harmonious life inside their monastery and behave in an exemplary way outside” (1738). “During the forthcoming visitation I would like to find out in particular if love of God and neighbor is filling up your hearts because of the Holy Spirit dwelling in them. This I shall demand, encourage, and examine. For we love God truly when we fulfill His commandments, as well as the regulations of our be- loved Marian Institute, and when we abstain from per- sonal whims. We truly love our neighbor if we do not deny him anything that is his by right and do not wish him harm. If we have no love, everything else is noth- ing. Everything can be achieved with love” (cf. 1 Cor 13:1-3) (June 1, 1739). “It is necessary to see if we can safely show before Christ the Judge our hearts along with the Virgin’s virtues radiating in us—the subject of our vows. Dur- ing this visitation we are going to see if all of this is carried out with God’s help so that we may fearlessly 25 Renewal and Growth of the Marian Order