1166 scripta historica The work containing the Oblatio, i.e., FDR, was given this title by St. Stanislaus of Jesus and Mary Papczyński in his subsequently lost manuscript. The original still existed in 1773, and it was submitted to Rome along with other written works for the needs of St. Stanislaus’ beatification process. Two years later, i.e., in 1775, it was examined by the Congregation of Rites. The FDR text, including the Oblatio, was also preserved in a copy of Protocollum Ordinis Immculatae Conceptionis, prepared around 177468. Although the entire short work was entitled FDR, it was not so much about the establishing of the first Marian Fathers’ monas- tery called Domus Recollectionis in Puszcza Korabiewska (today’s Puszcza Mariańska – Engl. Marian Forest), but about the very beginnings of the shaping of the new religious institute. Its author, St. Stanislaus of Jesus and Mary, who is also the author of the Oblatio, describes his life from a historical perspective and presents the sequence of events and his personal experiences of the faith which led to his undertaking a new mission, i.e., founding the Congregation of Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception of the Most B.V.M. Above all, how- ever, he places them in the context of his own experience of faith. Therefore, the starting point and the foundation on which he sets the story of his life and of the first years of the emergence of the new religious community is God’s grace of being chosen to be- come the father and founder of the Congregation of Marian Fathers. In this context, the holy Marian Founder includes the Oblatio in the FDR as yet another expression of his experience both mystical, community-founding, and charismatic: mystical, because he made the act of the Oblatio out of a divine inspiration (“Divine Majesty suggested to me, that while I was going to be released from these, in the same act I would bind myself freely to God by other vows, which I did by offering myself,” FDR, 3); community-founding, because by this act of Oblatio he initiated the Congregation; and charismatic, because the gift that he received from the Holy Spirit was for the good of the Church. 68 Positio, p. 354.
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