Vincentian Priests and Brothers

…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

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

In the afteroon, October 31, the Visitor of Poland, Fr. Arkadiusz Zakreta CM accompanied by Provincial Secretary and Provincial Econome welcomed Superior General of the Congregation of the Mission, Most Rev. Gregory Gay CM arriving to John Paul II airport in Krakow for long and warmly expected visit to Vincentian Province of Poland and three [...]

At the begining of September lateral chapels in the Seminary Church of Conversion of St. Paul at Stradom in Krakow were reopened after several weeks long renovation. Chapels of Most Sacred Heart of Jesus (to left from main entrance) and Our Lady of Czestochowa (to right from entrance) are now opened for worshipers. From this [...]

Tags: C.M., history, Krakow, Poland, Stradom

Sunday, June 14, 2009 was marked by the priesthood anniversaries in the Provincial House in Krakow. Fifteen confreres celebrated their 55th, 50th and 25th anniversaries of priestly ordinations. The main celebration was the Eucharist which all of them concelebrated in the seminary church of Conversion of  St. Paul, Stradom, Krakow, the place where they were [...]

Tags: C.M., jubilee, Poland

On June 6, a day after the Provincial Assembly finished in St. John’s University a group of 13 confreres from US Eastern Province of the Congregation of the Mission, one from Midwestern Province led by Msgr Alfonso Cabezas  CM, retired bishop of Villavicencio, Columbia, and two American born members of Province of New England,  accompanied [...]

Tags: C.M., New England, USA

On Saturday, May 16, 2009,  Msgr Józef Guzdek, Auxiliary Bishop for Archdiocese of Krakow has ordained new priests and deacons during the special liturgy in the Vincentian Fathers Seminary Church of Conversion of St. Paul at Stradom, Krakow. All new ordained are graduates of Vincentian Fathers Institute of Theology (ITKM) in Krakow. Those ordained come [...]