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207 A Theological Evaluation Let us focus briefly on Father Druzbicki whose name was mentioned by Father Papczynski in Templum Dei Mysticum . Our author was undoubtedly influenced by this saintly Jesuit when he was writing his Mystical Temple . It was from Druzbicki that he learned to appreciate the grace of Holy Baptism and to thank God for it on each anniversary of this event. He prayed just as Father Druzbicki did: “I came into this world, O Lord, but I was born blind, poor, naked and sinful. I saw the light, though a son of darkness, a devil’s slave, an object of God’s wrath. O my Triune God, Goodness Itself and my only Good! Why is it that, before I became your son by the grace of adoption, before I was allowed to share in the heritage of Christ’s merits, and before I, a useless branch, was grafted onto the True Vine, why is it, I ask, that You preserved me from death and did not allow me to perish? Rather, this lump of matter found grace with You, such that You allowed me to live and entrusted me to the care of a guardian angel. Then, by Your Providence, I was brought to the baptismal font where I was reborn as a son of grace, a member of Christ, and made an heir to His glory.” 17 When we discuss the teachings of both the Founder and the Renovator of the Marians, we should devote some attention to such an important element as their care for doctrinal purity. Both Father Papczynski and Father Matulaitis-Matulewicz lived in such times when various erroneous trends of thought appeared, but both of them knew how to overcome them. The extreme forms of these trends are called heresies (from hairesis — erroneous teaching, schism, division, creation of a separate community). This term expresses the essence of the matter very well because it provides a good description of a situation when an individual or a group questions the basic truths of their religion, breaks up its doctrinal unity and eliminates selected elements at their own dis- cretion. Father Papczynski was unsullied by heresy because his teaching does not contain even a trace of the errors circulating in the 17th century such as quietism 18 or Jansenism 19 . The first trend led to the shirking of serious moral duty. The second, whose name is derived from that of a Flemish