The Renewal of the Order redone 2018

85 Documents extensively because when I was handling the matter of the Marian Fathers in Rome and was going to the Holy Congregation of the Religious, I experienced moving benevolence and kindness on your part, Honored Reverend. Most Reverend Prelate, we have not succeeded in preparing the documents for the Holy Congregation of the Religious as quickly as we had intended. There were the following reasons for that: soon after I returned from Rome and Warsaw to St. Petersburg, the academic year began. An inspector, one of the teachers in our Academy, had left. 4 At the request of the Academy’s Rector, in addition to teaching dogmatic theology which I took upon myself to teach permenently, I had to teach sociology temporarily and had to assume the duties of inspector. This meant that up until the Christmas break, I have been fulfilling the duties of more than two people. However, during that time I have also reviewed the old charters of the Marian Order, amending them in accordance with the Standards and the most recent guidelines of the Church. At this moment, they have been handed over to the printer. Similarly, because of these activities as well as because such mat- ters cannot be conferred to our mail, we could not obtain the letters of recommendation from our three Bishops Ordinary earlier than during the Christmas holidays. As soon as the holidays began, we went to the Ordinaries of Sejny and Warsaw. The former decided to send the let- ters himself to the Holy Congregation of the Religious, 5 while the lat- ter forwarded them to us for sending. 6 For his part, the Bishop Ordinary of Mohylev promised that he would hand those letters to us as soon as our constitutions are printed. 7 We ourselves intend to send all the required documents to the Holy Congregation together with the new printed constitutions as soon as they come from the printing house. 4 Debinski, Karol, see Document 23, note 2. 5 See Document 26. 6 See Document 28, Appendix 1. 7 See Document 28, Appendix 4.