Ad Honorem Immaculatae Conceptionis Mariae Oblatio

194 Father Stanislaus Papczynski My name is Peter Nguyen Tien Dung. After three years spent in the For- mation House of the Marian Fathers in Saigon, I recognize that I love the Congregation. I am sure that it is a fruit of learning in the Novitiate the life of Fr. Stanislaus Papczynski and the Charism of the Congregation. Above all, I realize that through the Holy Father Founder I experience the love of Jesus Christ and Immaculate Mother Mary for me. Every day of my life I desired to imitate Jesus. I understood that through Father Founder I can draw closer to Jesus Christ. Through Father Founder I have learnt how to obey God and how to give my heart to Him. From the beginning of the Novitiate I was impressed by the sentence: “The Lord imprinted in the heart of Father Stanislaus Papczynski the desire to found the new Order to spread the mystery of the Immaculate Con- ception”. It made me to live my identity of the “child of Mary who should imitate his Mother”. The time of the Novitiate was very important for me. I have learned a lot about the Congregation, its foundation by Saint Stanislaus Papczynski and the values of the consecrated life. I understood that first of all I have to give up myself if I want to follow Jesus Christ. Like Father Founder I need to entrust everything to God and be the witness of His love by living the Gospel. Saint Stanislaus Papczynski had to passed through many difficulties and challenges. As a young man he was not able to study well; he got seriously sick; there were many false accusations against him and the Congregation and there were also many other difficult events at the birth of the Order. But in all these situations he showed the trust in the God’s Providence and the Blessed Virgin Mary. I want to imitate him and also serve the Mystery of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is the charism of our Congrega- tion. Peter Nguyễn Tiến Dũng MIC