101 Apostolate or Contemplation: 1677-1723 death. In New Jerusalem, Bishop Stefan Wierzbowski imposed various pastoral duties on the Marians. In addition to occasional confessions of arriving pilgrims, delivering sermons to them, and guiding them along the paths of the sanctuary, so “whenever necessary, the priests would lead the people along the paths of the Lord’s Passion [starting] from the Cenacle,”142 the Marians also had specific and permanent tasks assigned. On Holy Thursday, following the invocation of the sanctuary, they were obliged to prepare and exhibit the mystery of the Lord’s Supper for the pilgrims. On Pentecost Sunday and Corpus Christi, they organized the main celebrations and processions in the Cenacle for all the residents of Góra and the arriving pilgrims.143 The Marians were also obligated to celebrate Mass at the nearby convent of the Dominican Sisters and serve as their spiritual directors. Casimir Wyszyński reported: “Upon [the] bishop’s orders, the Venerable Servant of God, Father Stanislaus, held the convent’s permanent spiritual directorship. As the spiritual director and confessor of these Sisters, he cultivated their souls so carefully and prudently, instructing them through spiritual exercises and the Word of God, that many of them, edified by his example, lived and died saintly.”144 Such was, incidentally, the case with Sister Kolumba Potkańska, of whom it was said that she had died in the opinion of sanctity and whose tomb was visited by numerous pilgrims.145 Serving the Dominican Sisters as chaplains and confessors was also entrusted to the Marians in the 18th century. In addition to the mentioned activities, the Marians of Góra, as needed, also provided pastoral care in the surrounding parishes. It is important to emphasize again that it was through the inspiration of Fr. Papczyński that Bishop Wierzbowski introduced the decision to free the Cenacle and future houses from the strict rigors of eremitical life imposed on the establishment in the Forest in the act of erecting the Marian community in 1679. Especially significant here was the sentence: 142 Iniungimus demum iisdem clericis, ut quoties opus fuerit populum per vias Passionis Domini pietatis causa deducant a Caenaculo”. Founding documeent of Nov. 22, 1677. Positio, Papczyński, p. 382. 143 List of celebrations held in the shrine with the participation of pilgrims, in: M. Borkowska, Dzieje Góry Kalwarii, pp. 380-381. 144 Wyszyński, Stróż, p. 102. 145 Ibid, pp. 101-102.
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