Lumen 2018

Joachim had fulfilled his mission. His Norma Vitae was not ap- proved, instead, he had to accept a new rule and the fact that his Congregation would be incorporated into the Order of Franciscan Friars. 102 But he became convinced that the Rule of the Ten Virtues was not contradictory to the Statutes of the Congregation which he had prepared and corresponded to the spirit of his intentions. After all, it was an ardent encouragement to imitate the virtues of the Immaculately Conceived Virgin, which the Marians, more than anyone else, should practice. In spite of this, Fr. Papczynski re- proached Fr. Kozlowski for not having obtained approbation for the Rule of Life as the Marian Constitutions adapted to the said Rule of the Ten Virtues . 103 Sometimes Fr. Papczynski experienced problems with Fr. Ko- zlowski. This time he not only presented his reservations as to how Fr. Kozlowski fulfilled his mission in the Eternal City, but also ad- monished him for trying to introduce new customs in the commu- nity. He noticed that Fr. Joachim and Br. Cinski were wearing the white hats which they had brought from Rome, while all other mem- bers of the Congregation wore black hats. When he asked the two of them for the reason behind this change, Fr. Kozlowski replied that it was appropriate to wear a white hat with a white habit. Father Stanislaus replied with some displeasure that the hat had no connec- tion with the habit because the habit was an essential form and should be white to signify interior purity, as an encouragement for oneself and others to imitate the impeccability of the Immaculate Virgin Mary, while the hat was something additional which could be used or not. Therefore, he asked Fr. Joachim not to change any- thing in the Congregation, since it was not he (Fr. Papczynski) but God Himself who had called it to life in the Church and everything should remain as it was. In order to remove any doubts that every- thing in the Congregation was, indeed, in accordance with God’s will which he had discerned, Fr. Stanislaus ordered that the white hats be cut into small pieces, seeing in them a harbinger of even greater deviations (because of Fr. Kozlowski) from the original idea of the Congregation. 104 395 The End of Father Stanislaus’s Life