915 letter to fr. alexander armini, sp crisis. It is certain that Fr. Papczyński did not seek to return to the Piarists and undertook steps to save his Congregation. I request your blessing, Most Reverend Father in Christ, My most Venerable Father. 1. Although I was compelled to depart externally from the Order of Pious Schools,273 nevertheless, I internally love it as the one who spiritually formed me, and internally I most humbly recognize, with sentiments of veneration, you as my Father and Superior. Therefore, by this letter, I most humble ask you, Father, for the sake of the tranquility of my soul and my salvation, regarding this matter which I present and manifest to Your Fatherly Reverence, for the sake of finding out what is the internal will of Your Fatherly Reverence, to decide and prescribe for me what in the Lord seems to Your Fatherly Reverence to be more perfect and more pleasing to the Divine Majesty. 2. About sixteen years ago (inasmuch as I can remember), I was compelled by Fr. Francis of Jesus Mary, at that time Rector of the Warsaw house and governing the Polish Province during the absence of the Provincial, who had left for the General Chapter, to remove the habit [of the Congregation] of the Poor of the Mother of God [of Pious Schools]274 (which I retained for some time after being externally released [from vows], until I received the response to my letter transmitted to the above-mentioned Chapter).275 3. Then, having consulted theologians and pious men as to my canonical status, after having refused the lucrative and emi273 The reasons why Fr. Papczyński felt “compelled” to leave the Piarists are given in the Apology (above, HW, pp. 873-899, n. 6). He was released from simple vows and the oath of perseverance with the Piarists on December 11, 1670. Cf. Positio, pp. 144-214 (Doc. VI). 274 Cf. Positio, pp. 219, 227-229, 230-231. 275 The letter in which Fr. Papczyński asked to be readmitted to the Piarists (under certain conditions) was sent at the end of 1670. Cf. Positio, p. 219 (Doc. VII, A, 2, intr.).
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