The Renewal of the Order redone 2018

N O . 12. L ETTER FROM R EV . J. M ATULEWICZ TO R EV . F R . B UCZYS CONCERNING THE DECISION TO GO TO R OME Warsaw, July 19, 1909 Dear Frank, I have been eagerly awaiting your letter and I felt great joy when I received it. It turns out that letters from Gielgudyszki to Warsaw take as long as four days. 1 You were supposed to be in Kovno during the meeting of the St. Kazimierz Society, so I don’t know where to write to you, to Gielgudyszki or to Kovno. I will write to both places. It is important that I stay in touch with you. I think it will be necessary after all to go abroad in order to get infor- mation. I am determined to set out as soon as I get a passport. The Bishop’s advice is good. It won’t do any harm if I go to Rome and find out what they think about our intentions. As Bishop Ruszkiewicz said: “It is important to know how they will look upon such a lifestyle and such a project there.” In my opinion, the prerogatives of the local Administrator will not be infringed by it. Obviously, it is impossible to 55 Documents I humbly implore that — taking into consideration the special dif- ficulties and interdictions which are enforced here concerning monas- tic life and without regard for any impediments whatsoever — he might take his first annual vows in the Congregation of Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception of the Most Holy Virgin Mary which was approved by Pope Pius VI on November 17, 1786. With due reverence and respect, + Kazimierz Ruszkiewicz, Bishop Suffragan of Warsaw LVA, set 1676, inv. 1, vol. 27, p. 11, copy, in Latin. 1 See Document 10, note 1.