The Renewal of the Order redone 2018

The Renewal of the Marian Order in 1909-1910 28 obligation to recite the breviary for the dead was not restored. Owing to this addition, one of the special features of Marian spirituality and mission was preserved. Finally, the third amendment concerned restoration of the original character of the Marian apostolic mission: spreading the truths of the faith “especially among the simple people.” 85 Rev. Matulewicz skipped this phrase in his draft under the assumption that currently the well-to-do and the educated may be more neglected religiously than the simple people. 86 The draft of the constitutions thus amended was presented by the Prefect of the Congregation of the Religious, Cardinal Vives y Tuto, to the Pope during an audience on September 15, 1910. Pius X accepted the new constitutions and the reformed Order without any restrictions on their duration. The decree promulgating this papal decision was issued by the Congregation for the Religious on November 28, 1910. It presented a brief history of the Order, the man- ner and story of its Renewal and the postulated changes, especially the substitution of simple vows for solemn ones, and finally the description of the audience mentioned above. 87 The accepted constitutions, together with the decree, were sent to St. Petersburg by a friend of Rev. Matulewicz, the Russian Rev. Sergey Grum-Grzymalo 88 through the intermediary of the Princess Magdalena Radziwill. The common efforts of Father General Wincenty Sekowski, Rev. Jerzy Matulewicz, and Rev. Franciszek Buczys came to fruition. On the part of the Holy See, the decisive role in bringing the matter so quickly to its fortunate end was played by the Prefect of the Congregation of the Religious, Cardinal Vives y Tuto. The statute cre- ated legal conditions for quick growth of the Marian Order. 85 Ibid., section 3. 86 Matulewicz, Jerzy: Listy polskie [Letters in Polish], Warsaw 1987, Vol. 1, p. 61, letter to K. Bronikowski, November 11, 1923. 87 See Document 31. 88 Matulis, Stefan; Gorski, Tadeusz: Odnowienie marianow [Renewal of the Marians], [in:] Marianie, p. 113.