Ad Honorem Immaculatae Conceptionis Mariae Oblatio

12 approach will allow us to better grasp the importance of the Oblatio both for its author and for the community that he created. However, since the subject of this analysis is not the FDR, but the Oblatio , there is no need to present the full text of the FDR. Thus, it was decided to examine only the part of the FDR text before and including the second and last presentation of the Oblatio , that is, the moment where St. Stanislaus reports that the first candidate to the Congregation or John of the Immaculate Conception (Stanislaus Krajewski), made his vows using the same formula, written by the Marian Founder. The subsequent parts of the FDR speak of the history of establishing the first religious house in Puszcza Korabiewska and are not directly related to the Oblatio . The work containing the Oblatio , i.e. FDR, was given this title by St. Stanislaus of Jesus and Mary Papczyński in his subsequently lost man- uscript. The original still existed in 1773, and it was submitted to Rome along with other written works for the needs of St. Stanislaus’s beatification process. Two years later, i.e. in 1775, it was examined by the Congregation for Rites. The FDR text, including the Oblatio , was also preserved in a copy of Protocollum Ordinis Immculatae Conceptionis , prepared around 1774. 2 Although the entire short work was entitled FDR, yet it was not so much about the establishing of the first Marian Fathers’ monastery called Do- mus Recollectionis in Puszcza Korabiewska (today’s Puszcza Mariańska), but about the very beginnings of the shaping of the new religious institute. The most probable date of the FDR’s creation is 1675. Its author, St. Stani- slaus of Jesus and Mary describes his life from a historical perspective and presents the sequence of events and his personal experiences of the faith which led to his undertaking a new mission, i.e. founding the Congregation of Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception of the Most B.V.M. Above all, however, he places them in the context of his own experience of faith. Therefore, the starting point and the foundation on which he sets the story of his life and of the first years of the emergence of the new religious com- munity is God’s grace of being chosen to become the Father and Founder of the Congregation of Marian Fathers, despite his experience of unfitness and weakness, as he declared in FDR. Since “nothing is impossible for the Almighty” (FDR 1), God’s choosing an “unfit instrument” for such a great work further reveals His mercy and power more clearly. In FDR, the author does not hide his past and the fact of his leaving the Congregation of the 2 Positio , p. 354.