The Renewal of the Order redone 2018

19 Introduction 6. Trial enrollment of other candidates 7. Temporary location of the novitiate in St. Petersburg At the end, he added a request for the Holy See to contact the Order in a discreet manner, either directly or through Bishops Ordinary. 45 This didn’t help much, because a few months later Rev. Matulewicz received an official letter from the Congregation sent by mail to his St. Petersburg address with the seal of the Congregation on the out- side of the envelope. 46 On Monday morning, August 2, Rev. Matulewicz called on Undersecretary Caroli, who wrote directly on the petition filed two days earlier the first decision of the Congregation initiating the process of Renewal and reform of the Order. It says briefly that the Warsaw Bishop Ordinary who had issued the letter of recommenda- tion is authorized to include the two applicants to the Order subject to approval of the Superior General. After three months, those appli- cants would need to reapply with letters of recommendation from the Bishops Ordinary of Mohylev, Warsaw, and Sejny. On top of the decree is its number and at the bottom the seal of the Congregation. That the decree was written by Prelate Caroli was verified by Blessed Jerzy in his letter of August 6, 1909. 47 The matter which had seemed so diffi- cult had been resolved very quickly. Decisions were made by the Cardinal Prefect in person during his conversation with Rev. Matulewicz even before the latter had filed any formal petition. No traces have been found of any conference of Cardinal Vives y Tuto with other cardinals concerning the Renewal and reform of the Congregation of Marian Fathers. 48 45 See Document 16. 46 See Document 29. 47 See Documents 19 and 18. 48 Rev. Buczys stated erroneously in his memoirs, and others repeated after him, that the matter had been considered during a meeting of cardinals Jose Vivos y Tuto, Gaetano de Lai, Secretary of the Consistory, and Merry del Val, the Secretary of State, first separately and later with the participation of Rev. Matulewicz. ( Ricordi di p.m.S. Ecc. Vescovo Fr. p. Buczys scritti dal prof. Zenone Ivinskis, Summarium ..., p. 60 [in:] Positio ).