Ad Honorem Immaculatae Conceptionis Mariae Oblatio

104 age of our Savior that was particularly dear to our holy Father Founder, we would discover with certainty that it was the Crucified Christ. To Him Fr. Stanislaus dedicated two collections of meditations: The Crucified Orator and The Suffering Christ . He frequently invoked the image of the Cruci- fied One in his meditations called Inspectio cordis and recommended Him as a model for imitation to his confreres and to the faithful. The entire spirituality of our holy Father Founder has a dimension which is eminently Christo-centric, Christo-typical, and related to the Passion. In his Oblatio, the former Piarist offered and consecrated himself to “God the Father Almighty, to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.” During his lifetime, this Podegrodian undertook all of his important deeds in the name of the Holy Trinity. 13 There is no doubt that the Trinitarian dimension is fundamental to Fr. Stanislaus’s spirituality. Our holy Father Founder began calling Mary “the Daughter of God the Father,” “the Mother of the Son,” “the Bride of the Holy Spirit,” “guided entirely by the Holy Spirit,” and “the Tabernacle of the entire Holy Trinity” as early as 1661. 14 Saint Stanislaus Papczyński claimed that – just like Mary – every person was the creation and dwelling of the Holy Trinity, which made him, consecrated through Holy Baptism [ dedicatio, consecratio ], and was leading him to his ultimate destination. 15 For this reason, he concluded his Mystical Temple of God with the following Inscription, dedication, offering (of himself and every man): “To You, Eternal Father, my Creator, to You Eternal Son my Redeem- er, to You Eternal Spirit my Sanctifier, this Temple described and living, which I am, I most humbly dedicate [ dedico ] for ever.” 16 After offering himself to the Triune God, our holy Father Founder ded- icated himself in his Oblatio to “the Mother of God the Ever-Virgin Mary, Conceived without original sin.” We note here an extremely important change as compared to the vows he made in 1656 in the Piarists: Mary is described additionally as “Conceived without original sin.” 17 According to 13 First Testament and Another Testament; the blessing from Another Testament, and Pro- fession of solemn vows. 14 Cf. Prodromus Reginae Artium, Laus Deiparae Mariae Virginis. In his meditation, Be- fore the Most Holy Communion on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Mary from his Inspectio cordis , Fr. Papczyński repeated the invocation from the Little Hours : “Hail, Virgin Mother! Temple of the Trinity.” 15 Cf. Mystical Temple of God , Chapters I and XXIV. 16 Mystical Temple of God , p. 137. 17 “I, Stanislaus of Jesus Mary, having the secular name of John Papczyński, being 25 years old, make my profession [ voveo tria Vota Simplicia ] in the Congregation of the Pious Schools of the Poor of the Mother to the Almighty God, the Father and the Son, and the Holy Spirit,