The Renewal of the Order redone 2018

53 Documents “if I do not deserve that the Congregation be revived during my life- time, let someone else stand up to fight the almost insurmountable challenge.” Since March 4, I have been going to the Church. I help hear Holy Confessions and this sustains me. But I cannot drive to visit the sick and I am unable to do any other business requiring any effort. I am awaiting the Reverend Professor’s answer, if only just to learn what I should do with myself, because these dreams have tormented [me] enough. There is nothing new here except that famine is threaten- ing our neighborhood. The good people have neither bread for them- selves nor fodder for their cattle, and cold is destroying the seedlings. Not one flower has appeared, not one tree has blossoms. If this goes on any longer, there will be no rye, wheat, or clover. But, this is in God’s hands. I apologize for worrying the Reverend Professor and for interrupting your arduous toil. Please accept my cordial wishes for all the graces of heaven on your Name’s Day. Your servant, Reverend W. Sekowski, Marian LVA, set 1674, inv. 2, vol. 97, original, in Polish. N O . 10. L ETTER FROM R EV . J. M ATULEWICZ TO R EV . F R . B UCZYS CONCERNING RECEPTION OF A LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION TO THE W ARSAW S UFFRAGAN , K AZIMIERZ R USZKIEWICZ [Warsaw,] July 16, 1909 Dear Frank, I am writing to Gielgudyszki 1 and at the same time to Kovno to the address of Rev. Dambrauskas 2 because I don’t know where to catch 1 Gielgudieszki (Gelgaudiskis), a small town in Southeastern Lithuania where a paternal uncle of Fr. Buczys was the parish priest (EL, II, pp. 295-296). 2 Dambrauskas, Aleksandras (1860-1938), professor of the Theological Academy. in St. Petersburg. From 1906 he lived in Kowno and devoted himself mainly to journalism. Among others, he founded the periodical “Draugiga” and was its editor for 20 years (EL, II, pp.16-18).