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hold of him and won’t let him go» for ever! (cf. Sg 3 :4). This is the matter of a per- sonal, intimate relationship with the Divine Bridegroom, where union flows from love and embraces every moment of life. “ Consecrate to Divine Love all your actions and experiences of your entire life, especially your daily […] good moments, circumstances, […] each and every action and experience. Consecrate them with trust […] on the altar of love—a pure heart, I say—united with the mer- its of Christ the Lord and his Immaculate Mother […]” ( Norma vitae ). In himself a person is not capable of such a love, if it is not given him by the Holy Spirit, in whom Fr. Papczy<ski saw the source of a true, in other words, spir- itual love (amor spiritualis). “The Holy Spirit transforms the souls of sinners into the ones filled with love […] as He did with the Apostles; as when tongues of fire appeared and came to rest over each one of them, inside their hearts were burn- ing” ( Inspectio cordis ). An equally important place in Fr. Stanislaus’s teaching about the road of reli- gious perfection pertains to his appeal for fraternal charity: “Concerning mutual love: let it be known that the one who excels in mutual love is more dear to the Divine Majesty. Each of you should keep in mind that the soul of his Institute is love, and to the extent that he withdraws from love, he withdraws from life” ( Norma vitae ). This instruction is first and foremost concerned with the love of confreres, given by the Lord. The example of this merciful love we can find in the way Fr. Papczy<ski relat- ed to Stanislaus Krajewski—one of his first companions. It is sufficient to scan the pages of Fundatio domus recollectionis to get the idea about the problems that Krajewski brought to Fr. Founder. In 1675 a truly dramatic circumstance arose when Krajewski physically assaulted Fr. Stanislaus and fled the Korabiew monastery after- wards. Remaining outside of the Marian Order, he spread false rumors about the Founder and his little community, especially after Fr. Papczy<ski ’s settling in New Jerusalem. After a while, Krajewski founded a religious community of St. Onuphry and made an attempt of establishing a monastery in the village of Wygnanka near Lutków. His efforts failed in a short period of time, and Krajewski asked for permis- sion to return to the Marians. Father Founder admitted him back into the community in a spirit of forgiveness and reconciliation. This attitude full of mercy and goodness changed Brother Stanislaus Krajewski so much that he spent his remaining years in the Marian community (died before 1685) in a total agreement with Fr. Papczy<ski ; what is more: he made him the sole executor of his last will. In his book Inspectio cordis , Father Founder wrote more emphatically: “A man without love, a religious without love is like a shadow without sun, a body without soul, totally nothing. What a soul is for the body, that love is for the Church, reli- gious Orders and Houses. Someone rightly said once, recommending this virtue: ‘Take away the sun from the world and you take away everything; take away love L EST Y OU R EMAIN W ITHOUT W ORK IN THE V INEYARD OF THE L ORD 92