Ad Honorem Immaculatae Conceptionis Mariae Oblatio

105 the formula of profession provided in the Norma vitae , each Marian had to recite his offering [offero] to “the Divine Majesty, and the Mother of God, the Virgin Mary.” 18 According to Fr. Stanislaus, the first and most important privilege of Mary was her divine motherhood; it was the source of all other titles and gifts given to Mary by God; all for the sake of Christ, the only Savior of the world, who is to be born of her. 19 After departing from the Piarists, Father Papczyński continued to have devotion to Mary primarily as the Virgin Mother of God, but the mystery of the Immaculate Conception, accom- plished in Mary by the Triune God for the Church and the whole world, became the focal point of his lifetime charism as well as the charism of the Congregation he founded. 20 WHAT? Already in his act of the Oblatio , and many times after, Fr. Papczyński offered and consecrated to God and Mary all of himself, everything he was and had, leaving absolutely nothing to himself. 21 and also to the Mother of God, ever Virgin Mary, and to you, Most Reverend Father [...] three simple vows [...];” Profession of Simple Vows , p. 15-16. “I, Stanislaus of Jesus Mary, having the secular name of John Papczyński, according to the flesh, Son of Thomas from Podegrodzie of the Diocese of Cracow, being forty years of age, offer and consecrate to God the Father Almighty, to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, and also to the Mother of God the Ever-Virgin Mary, Conceived without original sin, my heart...”, Oblatio , p. 28. 18 Norma vitae, I, 6. 19 “Consider the dignity of the Mother, which she received from the eminence of the Son. Due to the very fact that she became the Mother of the Son of God, the Lord of the angels and the King of the universe, she became not only the Bride of God, but at the same time the Mistress of the angels and the Queen of all creation. Therefore, all the Virgin’s honors, favors, prerogatives, privileges, and exemptions depend solely on her Maternity just as your whole salvation and the means of salvation depend solely on the redemption accomplished by her Son, whom you have received today,” Inspectio cordis , On the Feast of the Birth of the Most Blessed Virgin, After Most Holy Communion , 3. 20 In September of 1671, before the image of the Immaculate Mother of God, Fr. Stanislaus donned the white habit: “All [...] will be white in color, in honor of the pure Conception of our Lady,” Norma vitae , IV.4. “...in the white colored [habit], I devoted myself as a new candidate of this Mother for everlasting service,” FHR, p. 66. 21 “my heart, my soul, intellect, memory, will, feelings, my whole mind, my whole spirit, my interior and exterior senses, and my body, leaving absolutely nothing for myself,” Oblatio , p. 27.