234 Lord, for having given me such extraordinary feelings of love for the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In the past I found this prayer diffi cult. But now, how sweet it is to fall at her feet and to immerse myself in prayer! Overwhelmed by these feelings of incomparable sweetness, my soul swoons and my body is fi lled with wondrous, incomprehensible, and inexpressible tremors. It is like the feeling I had when I pressed the holy cross to my heart” (Journal, p. 60). Christ’s cross and the paschal mystery, as well as the Immaculate Conception of the Mother of God, are Fr. Papczyński’s fundamental experiences. Led by Blessed George, the fi rst Marians of the renewed Congregation made efforts to reopen Fr. Stanislaus’s beatifi cation process, to safeguard his tomb and the Church of Our Lord’s Cenacle, as well as to research the history and traditions of the “white” Marians. The more attentively we study the legacy of Fr. Founder and of Blessed George, the better we perceive the charismatic continuity and the identity of spirit. The “white” Marians did not leave us [organizational] structures, customs, or possessions, instead they left us something far more important: the vision which the Holy Spirit fi rst imprinted on the soul of Fr. Founder and then on the soul of every Marian. Unfortunately, the specifi c circumstances of our renewal and other priorities of the Congregation led to the fact that this vision wasn’t fully defi ned in the Constitutions of the renewed Congregation and didn’t become the widespread daily experience of the Marians. Perhaps, the most important goal of Fr. Stanislaus’s beatifi cation is to urge us to discover the entire truth about our vocation and mission in the Church and the world. Thanks to the Founder’s beatifi cation, we have retrieved a Father and a source out of which fl ows the vocation of each one of us. This is yet another sign of God’s love and mercy for the Congregation, a sign that calls for our response.
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