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III. A CTIONS W ITHIN THE C ONGREGATION : A. Individual and communal preparations for the beatification: After the Cardinals and Bishops in the Ordinary Session of the Congregation for the Saints would make the positive decision, we shall start an intensive spiritu- al preparation for the beatification. All confreres shall receive a booklet containing: 1. Introductory Letter of the Superior General; 2. Decree convoking the Committee in charge of preparing the Congregation of Marians for the beatification of our Founder, the Venerable Servant of God, Fr. Stanislaus Papczy < ski; 3. Program for Days of Recollection; 4. Program of Preparations for the Beatification; 5. Fr. Founder’s Biography 6. Calendar of the Life of the Marian Founder 7. Decree proclaiming the heroic virtues 8. Fr. Founder’s Selected Writings about the Religious Life 9. Selected articles about Fr. Papczy < ski. The plan for the days of recollection is prepared in such a way that every day one Marian community prays for a good preparation and experience of the impend- ing (as we all hope) beatification of our Founder. We designated days of the month to every community in such a way so that there would be a continuance of prayer- ful vigil. The Committee is convinced that it will help the entire Congregation, as well as its individual members in their successful preparation for receiving and experiencing the grace of our Founder’s beatification. B. Post-beatification period Acting on the conviction that the grace of beatification is an opportunity granted to our Congregation to renew the charism of our religious life and to ascer- tain the holiness of the road, which our Founder trod and which we, his spiritual sons, also follow, the Committee proposes to undertake the work of the spiritual renewal of the Marians and faithfulness to their charism, to which extent the fol- lowing may be applied: 1. Annual retreats specifically oriented towards Fr. Papczy < ski’s spirituality and renewing the Charism. The task of preparing such retreats will be assigned by the Provincial Superior. L EST Y OU R EMAIN W ITHOUT W ORK IN THE V INEYARD OF THE L ORD 16