The Renewal of the Order redone 2018

41 Documents well as for the Mariampole monastery, we regard your canonical selec- tion, Most Reverend Father, as the Superior of the Mariampole monastery of the Congregation to be worthy of confirmation and there- fore we hereby confirm it and we declare it confirmed to all concerned now or ever after in accordance with our Decree No. 71 of the 9th day of this month. 2 We confer on you, Reverend Father, all power and juris- diction, including all the privileges, authority, primacy, and rights which according to the Rule and constitutions of the Congregation are due and usually conferred upon Superiors, both Generals of the whole Congregation and those of local monasteries. We order each and all Fathers and Brothers of said Congregation to acknowledge you as their Superior and strive to show you due respect under penalty of excom- munication and other penalties mandated by the Congregation’s regu- lations. We also wish you, Most Reverend Father, to consider yourself called to care for both the spiritual and temporal welfare of the Congregation and monastery entrusted to you both together with your Council and without it and with our Decree of the 9th day of this cur- rent month and with the regulations and customs thereof; you should take care to ensure all the monks subject to you receive whatever is necessary for their sustenance and clothing so that they are free from gathering and keeping money, because such violation of the vow of poverty is habitually excused by neglect on the part of Superiors. You will also make every effort to ensure that the Rule of the Congregation of Mary of the Immaculate Conception as well as its constitutions, both general and detailed, are most carefully obeyed. Moreover, apply all your strength so that monastic obedience flour- ishes and bears fruit in the Congregation conferred to your care. In all this, do your best to be so active and vigilant that at the Last Judgment you will be able to report all your strivings to God and to ourselves whenever you will be summoned. AGM, IG, Documenta Historica Generalia No. 5, fasciculus 11, p. 13, copy, in Latin, No. 71. 2 See Document 1.