Vincentian Priests and Brothers

Website of Office for Foreign Missions of Province of Poland has released new section dedicated to missionary education. It’s titled «MISYJNE ABC» (Missionary ABC) and it is a sort of thesaurus containing terms, names, expressions and themes regarding missionary apostolate. At the beginning, number of available entries is not big, but the Office’s editors assure [...]

Tags: announcements, education, Foreign Mission Office, Poland

Last weekend, from Friday, June 18 to Sunday, June 20 General Assembly of AIC Poland was held in the Vincentian Formation Center VINCENTINUM in Krzeszowice, near Krakow.  In Poland, the organization is commonly known as Association of Charity of  Saint Vincent de Paul (Stowarzyszenie Milosierdzia Swietego Wincetego a Paulo).  Delegates from all AIC groups in [...]

Tags: AIC, AIC Polska, assembly, Krzeszowice, Poland, VINCENTINUM

On Friday, April 16, the body of Mr.  Ryszard Kaczorowski,  last President-in-exile  of  the Republic of Poland and scout Scoutmaster of  Republic will be moved from Belvedere Palace along streets of Warsaw to Basilica of Holy Cross in Warsaw for funeral and mourning ceremonies.  Coffin, covered with the color of  President of  Poland and Commander-in-Chief [...]

Tags: announcements, disaster, events, funeral, history, Holy Cross, liturgy, Poland, Warsaw

At 10:53 AM local time (0653 GMT) Polish President’s airplane with 89 passengers and 7 crew members on board crashed while an attempt to touch down at Severny Airfield near Smolensk, South Western Russia. According to official report all passengers died. No one survived the crash. Among killed passengers were Mr Lech [...]

Tags: announcements, events, heritage, Obituary, Poland

On April 5, 1970 Archbishop of Krakow, Cardinal Karol Wojtyla (pope John Paul II) ordained Fr. Albin MALYSIAK CM a bishop. Pope Paul VI nominated him a titular bishop of Beatia and auxiliary bishop of Krakow on January 14, 1970. For many years of his service he was Vicar General and supervised departments of [...]

Tags: C.M., events, history, jubilee, Krakow, Malysiak, Poland

Polish public TV news channel (TVP Info) has reported in the evening today (2006 GMT) that Archbishop Tadeusz Gocłowski CM, former Archbishop of Gdansk, has suffered a stroke. We have confirmed this information from Superior of Vincentian Parish of Pentecost in Sopot, Fr. Jerzy Berdychowski CM. Bishop’s health is in serious but stable condition. He [...]

Tags: C.M., Gdansk, Poland

FAMVIN.ORG has published Letter for Lent 2010 addressed by Superior General, Fr. Gregory Gay CM. In this letter we can read: “… Let us reflect this Lenten season on the fragility of Jesus Christ and on our own fragility to see it not as a limitation but rather as a means of building a new [...]

Tags: announcements, Lent, letters, Superior General, Vincentian Family

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 [...]

Tags: Foreign Mission Office, Honduras, missionary support

Tags: announcements, C.M., Christmas

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.”

Tags: Christmas, Superior General, video, Vincentian Family, YouTube

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 “U Siemachy” Association was one of the recipients.

Tags: announcements, C.M., Krakow, Poland, U Siemachy

FAMVIN.ORG has published Letter for Advent 2009 addressed by Superior Gemeral, Fr. Gregory Gay CM. In this letter we can read: “… This Christmas, especially in this time of Advent, I’d like to focus on it being a time of bringing back the true meaning of Christmas and purifying our attitudes with regard to what we [...]

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