891 apologia for his departure from the order of pious schools the Capuchins, with the exception of this: that the members may stock food products [that last] for a year.171 But it certainly was not permitted for the Insitute of Pious Schools to accept any real estate neither by a title of inheritance nor by a title of donation;172 indeed, they were not permitted to accept annual rentals.173 If Alexander VII did not permit this nor did ecclesiastical accessories, in accord with the utmost poverty, then one cannot permit anything of silk, nothing of gold or silver, except the cup of the chalice.174 And yet, what happened to the contrary? Let those declare [the truth] who, with pious curiosity, compare these latest things with the Institute of Pious Schools, known for its piety.175 36. To preserve chastity, certain forms of abstinence were enjoined in the Constitutions by our Blessed Founder [Joseph Calasanz], which now waver and are being slowly dispensed with.176 It belongs to obedience that Superiors too be obedient to the laws, just as the subjects are obedient to them and to the Superiors. I nevertheless observed that something else occurs, since it was heard how certain members cried out: “You can go to Hell; just be obedient.”177 And I endured immense agitations [from others] for no other reason than this: that I spoke out to the Superiors, who, not only openly but even with violence, trampled the papal and domestic laws, which I am ready to prove through the clearest testimonies.178 tions before 1656 (which Fr. Papczyński learned as a novice from 1654-1656). Cf. SH, p. 59, n. 124 171 Cf. SH, p. 60, n. 125. 172 Cf. SH, p. 60, n. 126. 173 This was the case according to the Piarist Constitution (cf. ConstSP, Part II, Ch. V, n. IV). After 1656 though, this was allowed under the brief Dudum felicis recordationis of Alexander VII. 174 Cf. SH, p. 61, n. 128. 175 Cf. SH, p. 61, n. 129. 176 Cf. ConstSP, Part II, Ch. IV, nos. I-VI, where these “fasts” (ieiunia) are described. Here they are referred to as “abstinences” (abstinentiae). In regards to the dispensation from, cf. ibid. n. 83, 87-90. 177 Evidently, this was the reponse given to certain Superiors by some members of the community, who objected that a command given them them was contary to ecclesiastical law, and thus it would be a grave sin to carry it out. 178 Cf. §§ 2-33.
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