Father Casimir Wyszynski

110 Z YGMUNT P ROCZEK , MIC, P H D Venerable inquired about the other brethren and was told by Fa- therMorze that all the others had gone to stay in parishes because of the lack of food. To this the Venerable Casimir replied: ‘O ye of little faith! This is why you have nothing to eat. If you had a strong faith, even the trees would supply youwith nourishment.’ Having said that, he went to collect alms and returned with two bags of groundwheat. FatherMorze, Father Andrewand the other priests and brothers benefited from this, having no shortage of flour for a whole year. So, for Father Casimir it happened in the same way that the Holy Scriptures told about the widow feeding Elijah.” 66 Father Casimir’s heroic hope can be found in his trust in the mercy of God and the merits of Jesus Christ. A special source of strength was his hope and trust in Divine Providence, in the pro- tection of Immaculate Mary and in the intercession of the holy Father Founder. He greatly longed for obtaining salvation. His primary goal was seeking Christian virtue. He did not attach any importance to temporal goods. He remained good-natured in adversity and in life’s trials. His hope was indomitable in the face of life’s cir- cumstances and became particularly manifest in the face of his approaching death. Father Benon Bujalski emphasized the virtue of hope when he testified about Venerable Casimir: “In various difficulties or when faced with a shortage of food and other necessities for the community in Góra Kalwaria, Venerable Casimir placed his entire hope in God. He urged other confreres to do the same when they were experiencing severe shortages of food and clothing. 67 “Father Casimir practiced the virtue of hope in an uncommon, that is, a heroic manner. And he cared with great trust and solic- itude for everyone. Although he and his subordinates in the monastery lived in poverty, he continued to provide for the mag- nificence of the divine worship in the church, even to preparing refreshments to sustain the piety of the attending populace. He 66 W. Magnuszewski, Żywot …, 44. 67 PositioWysz , 465.