Ad Honorem Immaculatae Conceptionis Mariae Oblatio

188 gation to satisfy current or future “staffing needs,” in other words, to run the recruitment activity in which the logic of attractiveness plays a deci- sive role, or was it about something more? Since my first year in this big South-Vietnamese city was dedicated to learning the Vietnamese language, I spent time – almost alone (especially in the evenings) – at the Caritas Vietnam house. I therefore had lots of time to find an answer to this re- curring question, also thanks to having access to a chapel with the Blessed Sacrament. I was able to realize that our mission in this country cannot consist only in our being yet another religious congregation, more or less attractive and useful for the local Church. Rather, we have to give witness to the deep inner experience of our holy Father Founder, which he himself called the “divine vision, which was imprinted upon my soul” (FDR 6), and which indeed came from the Holy Spirit and concerned the founding of the Congregation of the Immaculate Conception of the Most Holy Virgin Mother of God. Father Papczyński spoke about this experience as he was giving an account of the various offers and proposals which he had received after leaving the Piarists. 1 These offers and proposals might have seemed attractive and even beneficial, but they would have led him away from the charism which God Himself had bestowed upon him. This charism was then and is now the mystery of the Immaculate Conception of Mary. Consequently, it was necessary to focus – in the conditions of a new country, which Vietnam was to us five years ago and still is – on spreading the mystery of the Immaculate Conception of Mary in the manner of Fa- ther Founder and the first Marians, heirs of the charism. Among the latter, special attention is due to the Servant of God, Father Casimir Wyszyński, the first Marian missionary, lover of the Immaculate Conception of Mary and promoter of the person and work of Father Papczyński. After the crisis caused by Father Joachim of St. Anne Kozłowski’s inappropriate ambitions and the “Rostkovian dispersion,” he gave a new impulse to the development of the Order, by completely devoting himself to the service of the Immac- ulate and returning to the original spirit of the Order initiated by our holy Father Founder. The correctness of my reasoning was confirmed by the Canonization of Father Stanislaus Papczyński in June 2016. Our Father Founder – now Saint Stanislaus of Jesus and Mary Papczyński – captivated the hearts of the young Vietnamese men who initially visited me once a week to learn 1 Cf. Foundation of the House of Recollection , No. 6, in Historical Writings of Blessed Stanis- laus Papczyński , transl. from Latin by C. Krzyzanowski, Stockbridge, 2007, pp. 64-65.