Charity as the Basis and Source of the Spirituality of the Religious Life 71 here that Papczyński’s teaching about the virtues and the need to practice them always places the virtues within the supernatural endowment that man receives along with sanctifying grace. Also, he quite frequently reminds us that the Eucharist is an inexhaustible fount of the continual renewal of grace, including the infused virtues. This is where his convictions take root, both those expressed implicite and explicite, that “the health of the soul ... is based on the infused virtues” (mentis sanitas in virtutibus infuses posita est).129 This position allows him to keep a proper balance between ascetic efforts – which he tirelessly calls for, and the grace of God, received through Christ in the Church and imparted to men particularly through the sacraments. However, to underline the primacy of God’s actions and the significance of Christ’s merits earned through the Pascal events, Saint Stanislaus also places the virtues in a Christological context and states that “Jesus is the Lord of the virtues” (Iesus Dominus est virtutum) and the “giver of all goods and all virtues.”130 Since Christ was animated by a constant desire to save lost and sinful men for “Christ assumed human flesh for no other purpose than to save what was lost,” then the surest sign of His disciple’s advancement on the path of enlightenment is the presence of the same desire in his own life. Under these circumstances, Papczyński regards all actions which lead to the abandonment of a selfish preoccupation with one’s own problems for the sake of “cooperat[ing] with Christ the Lord for the salvation of souls” as features that best configure one to Christ. In particular, “love and zeal for the matter of converting sinners and those deviating from the way of perfection” are indicative of “truly enlightened” (vere illuminati) persons, “this work is of the utmost importance, inasmuch as in it contains both the love of God and of neighbor, on which all perfection depends.”131 129 IC, Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, BHC, pt. 3; also cf. A. Pakuła, Idea doskonałości zakonnej..., p. 23. 130 IC, Feast of the Circumcision of the Lord, BHC, pt. 3; Palm Sunday, BHC, pt. 3; cf. also T. Rogalewski, Koncepcja życia chrześcijańskiego…, pp. 63-68, 76-86. 131 IC, Feast of Nativity of St. John the Baptist, BHC, pt. 3.
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