Vincentian Priests and Brothers

Mr. Jerzy Karpinski, M.D., Gdansk region surgeon general has informed media on the current state of health of Archbishop Tadeusz Goclowski CM who yesterday, March 7, 2010, was admitted to the Neurology Clinics of Gdansk University Medical Center with suspected stroke. This suspition, said Dr. Karpinski, has not confirmed yet. According to his assessment, patient [...]

Tags: C.M., events, Gdansk, Goclowski, 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

It is tradition in the Province of Poland to institute new Lector (Reader) and Acolyte ministers on the first Sunday of Lent. These ministries are elements of formation toward priesthood. Canon Law requires candidates for diaconal ordination to have received and have exercised for an appropriate time the ministries of lector and acolyte and prescribes that [...]

Tags: Bydgoszcz, C.M., events, Krakow, Lent, liturgy, Seminary, Stradom

2010 was proclaimed Chopin Year in Poland to commemorate 200th birthday anniversary of Frederic Chopin, most famous Polish composer and one of the biggest in the world.  He was born on February 22, 1810 (some sources say it was on March 1) in Zelazowa Wola near Warsaw. On eve of the birthday anniversary solemn Thanksgiving [...]

Tags: events, heritage, history, Holy Cross, Poland, Warsaw

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

Tags: announcements, C.M., Christmas

…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).

Tags: C.M., liturgy, Seminary, Stradom

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

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 [...]

Tags: C.M., heritage, Kleparz, Krakow, Poland, Superior General, visits

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.

Tags: Krakow, Poland, Stradom, Superior General, visits

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 Holy Cross House in Warsaw, the oldest Vincentian community in Poland and one of oldest in the world. Holy Cross Parish in Warsaw was [...]

Tags: C.M., Poland, Superior General, visits, Warsaw

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 parish of the Pentecost in Sopot, another Vincentian community in the Province. All confrères from the parish, the retreat house in Gdynia and diocesan major seminary welcomed him cordially and had [...]

Tags: C.M., Gdansk, Poland, Sopot, Superior General, visits