Ad Honorem Immaculatae Conceptionis Mariae Oblatio

140 Therefore, the ‘Immaculate Conception’ is Mary’s title, specifying her vocation and mission as precisely as titles given to her by believers: Mother (cf. Jn 2:1; 19, 25; The Third Ecumenical Council of Ephesus of 431, which called the Virgin Mother – Theotokos – the Mother of God). The fact that Mary became the Mother of Christ and of the Church is inseparable from the mystery of her Immaculate Conception, i.e. such a full union between her and the Holy Spirit that what exists eternally in God could come to pass on earth. Verbum caro factum est et habitavit in nobis . Her Immac- ulate Conception is therefore revealed in the Annunciation, and she also announces her title on this holy day in Lourdes. The sign of this theological reality in Mary is her Fiat offered to God: Fiat mihi secundum Verbum Tuum . This is the prototype of Father Stanislaus Papczyński’s Oblatio . The mystery of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary requires of her a total gift of herself , for God fills Mary with all fullness, respecting her human capacity to receive Him. If God inspired Father Papczyński to found the Order of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, then he must indeed have engraved on his soul the image of this Institute, whose essence is a total self-offering to Christ and the Church. The Marian motto Pro Christo et Ecclesia indeed expresses the essence of the mystery of Mary’s Immaculate Conception. It was uttered first by Father Founder in his Oblatio in response to the charismatic gift of this Marian mystery. Nothing for myself. All for God and His Work. The desire for such a life can only come from the Holy Spirit. He also inspired St. Stanislaus of Jesus and Mary to open the way of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Vir- gin Mary for the Marians by offering themselves to God and the Church. Therefore, the Marian charism is the way of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The first step on this path, the Oblatio of Father Papczyński, is also the manifestation of its fullness and the essence of the mystery.