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71 Documents much in favor of orders without robes. He believes them to be very useful in today’s conditions. Then he asked me if I knew the Standards. Then he said: “You will do best to compose everything according to the Standards. You may save the old Rule as a keepsake, but the most important things are the constitutions.” Then we dis- cussed the novitiate. He advised that we set it up in a large city where it would be easier to hide. He promised to grant permission to profess vows. He was discussing various things, some of which he almost took out of my mouth. He kept repeating, strive for vita communis, 12 “because without it there is no monastery.” Then he directed me to present recommendations from the bishops when we apply the second time. For the time being, the letters of authorization that Bishop Ruszkiewicz 13 and Father Sekowski 14 gave me were sufficient. Ultimately, it turned out that to enter a monastery it is not necessary to have permission from one’s bishop. Admission can be made with- out it. It only must be known that the candidate is not “sentenced to ecclesiastical penalties or in debt.” Later on Saturday I went with my letter to Caroli. I spoke with him again, and I handed him the letter. 15 He promised to talk with the Cardinal and with some other people and to give me an answer on Monday. When I went back on Monday, August 2, he was holding the answer that he had written in his own hand on my letter or memoran- dum. The answer was as follows: “De Seyna, 3544/09. Attenta commendatione Reverendissimi Ordinarii Varsaviensis, Eidem committitur facultas agregandi Congregationi CC. RR. Marianorum Oratores, de quibus agitur: accedente authentica attestatione Superioris Generalis superstitis. 12 Vita communis — communal life. 13 See Document 11. 14 See Document 13. 15 See Document 16.