The Renewal of the Order redone 2018

81 Documents N O . 25. L ETTER FROM S UPERIOR G ENERAL W. S EKOWSKI TO R EV . J. M ATULEWICZ CONCERNING RECEIPT OF LETTER N O . 24 Mariampole, October 26, 1909 Reverend Professor and Most Beloved Brother in Christ, I received your letter of October 3/16, 1909, 1 for which I thank you. I could not answer any sooner. I was waiting for news from Sejny. Over a week ago, Rev. Narjowski, 2 Secretary of the Sejny Consistory, came here. To him I blathered everything that was happening and how things are. I also asked him to inform the Sejny Administrator, asking him to keep it all secret until the appropriate time and to provide in writing the formal documents needed for the two of you. 3 The letter indicates that Rev. Buczys received a similar message. Everything went successfully, because the day before yesterday I received what I had asked for and I attach it hereto. If there are any shortcomings, please forgive me because I didn’t know for sure what the form of the letter should be, but I think this should suffice. I could not go to Sejny in person because of a stomach ailment. Neither can I go today, no matter how I could have wished or tried to do so. I don’t know how long this will continue, but now I am incapacitated. But in spite of that, luckily I can still work in the church and in the Sunday school, and I even visited the sick twice. Last Thursday, Rev. Totoraitis came to see me. He mentioned in passing that he too would like to revere the Holy Mother of the Immaculate Conception 4 in a more special way, to which I responded that this is a sublimely beautiful thought and I urged him to persevere in his endeavor. 1 See Document 23. 2 See Document 20, note 5. 3 See Document 24. Rev. Buczys apparently received a similar letter. 4 i.e., he would like to become a Marian — see Document 4, note 3.