announcements & foreign mission admin | 03 Jan 2010
Project: “Motorcycle for Missionary”
Father Rafal Brukarczyk CM is working as missionary in Honduras for a couple of years. He is responsible for a parish located high in mountains, accessed with difficulty and requiring extraordinary transportation to be used. Since the beginning he has been using a horse, which is not very effective transportation. First one died. The other one, donated by a local bishop works very hard in those conditions. A 4 wheel drive vehicle is not able to get to most of the places in the parish.
Superior General, Very Rev. G. Gregory Gay CM addresses entire Vincentian Family with his Christmas message and gives Christmas greetings from the Curia: “It’s with great joy that I speak with you this day as we’ve come upon a great event in a life of humanity, the birth of Jesus Christ.”
…in the presence of all his people” (Psalm 116:14). According to tradition in the CM Province of Poland, in the solemnity of Immaculate Conception of Virgin Mary our seminarians in various stages of their formation celebrate either Vocation Day (Internal Seminary) or Good Promise (Bonum Propositum, I Philosophy) or Sacred Vows (III Theology).
On the occasion of Social Worker Day President of Poland Mr. Lech Kaczynski has awarded with orders and medals number of people bringing help to other people and for outstanding work among people in need. Rev. Andrzej Augustynski CM, President and Director General of 
On Staturday evening, after the visit to Helcel House, Superior General has moved to Vincentian House of St. Vincent de Paul at sw. Filipa Street, Kleparz district. This is one of most important Houses in the history of Polish Province, and third oldest, since erection, in the Province. In history, together with the church founded to provide spiritual care to vendors and buyers coming in to neighboring fare yard from villages near Krakow, 
On the eight day of his visit Superior General visited Daughters of Charity in the Province of Krakow. The visit started in the morning in Provincial House at Warszawska Street in the Kleparz district. In the afternoon he was showed two of works Daughters of Charity run in the Krakow - St. Louise Children’s House and Helcel Nursing House. In the evening he went to neighboring grounds of (Vincentian) St. Vincent de Paul House at sw. Filipa Street in Kleparz district, too. 
Second part of the visit to Poland Superior General spent in Krakow and surroundings on private sightseeing of historic places and tourist attractions. In the morning Fr. Greg went to the Museum in former concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. In the late afternoon he stepped underground - touring the salt mine in Wieliczka.
Sixth day of Superior’s General visit to Poland was dedicated to Daughters of Charity from Province of Warsaw. Most of the day Fr. Greg spent in the Provincial House at Tamka Street and two different works of the Province - Nursing House for elderly women at Solec Street, Warsaw and Special Education Center and Kindergarten in Lbiska-Pechery near Piaseczno. 
Warsaw was another stage of Superior’s General trip in Poland. At about 5 p.m. on Wednesday, November 4, our Honored Guest accompanied by the Visitor and the Provincial Secretary arrived to 
Northern city of Sopot was another stage of Superior’s General tour of Poland. In the evening, November 3, the honorable Guest arrived to the 
