The Trinitarian Context of Spirituality 143 not sparing yourself for the salvation of your neighbor, treating everyone kindly, praying for your enemies, exposing yourself to the divine justice for sinners, taking refuge with God in afflictions, and persevering in good works. This pattern and model was shown to you on the mountain. If you refuse to imitate it, then desist from your intention of consuming Christ. For he who hides himself to avoid working with Christ and for Christ, is unworthy to be nourished by Christ.”80 Papczyński emphasizes that cooperation in the work of salvation is one of the basics reasons for calling the Apostles as well as a sign of their truly becoming like the Master. This applies primarily – aside from actively proclaiming the Gospels – to establishing Christ’s salvific presence through the example of one’s own life consistent with “Christ’s standards.” In his Inspectio cordis, the Marian Founder teaches that “witness to Christ is given by those who are crucified with him; that is, those who suffer together with him because of their love for him and who, through such co-suffering, reveal his image by enduring all the adversities, temptations, torments, harsh words, and cruel beatings.”81 According to St. Stanislaus’s teaching, the sequela Christi leads the disciple to recreate His Master’s life in his own attitude. Out of concern for not omitting anything from Christ’s teaching and actions, His disciple formulates a principle of the necessity to follow Christ “in action and in suffering,”82 so that they would not only act according to this highest Ideal, but would also bear suffering in His manner. This conformity to Christ in His Passion in a general sense, also contains other mysteries, especially His death, resurrection, and the entrance into “the house of the Father.” The dimension of conformity, which in its first sense 80 IC, Feast of the Transfer of the Body of St. Stanislaus, Bishop and Martyr, BHC, pt. 3. 81 IC, Sunday within the Octave of the Ascension, AHC, pt. 2 and see also pt. 3. 82 Since the essence of this principle is more clearly presented in Latin, it is worth quoting here in the original language: “Perpende, velle Dominum, ut illum omnes Religiosi, qui se vere Dei ministerio applicuerunt, sequantur, agendo scillicet atque patiendo.” Crit. Ed. IC, p. 307. This excerpt was thus translated in English: “Consider that the Lord wants all the religious who have devoted themselves truly to the service of God to follow him in their actions and also in their suffering,” Feast of St. Lawrence, Deacon and Martyr, AHC, pt. 1.
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