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		<title>Christmas Message from the Superior General and the Curia</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8220;The Lord comes to rule the Earth, justice ad right sustain His throne&#8221; says Superior General, Most Rev. G. Gregory Gay CM at the beginning of his annual Christmas message addressed to all members of the Vincentian Family in the world. Other members of the Curia, Assistants General and other officers follow Fr. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>&#8220;The Lord comes to rule the Earth, justice ad right sustain His throne&#8221;</em> says <strong>Superior General, Most Rev. G. Gregory Gay CM</strong> at the beginning of his annual Christmas message addressed to all members of the Vincentian Family in the world. Other members of the Curia, Assistants General and other officers follow Fr. Greg bringing Christmas greetings in their native languages &#8211; English, Spanish, Italian, Tigrinya, Portuguese and Slovak. Watch  the video below. Subtitles in English and Polish are attached to all speech.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Also available in High Definition quality on <em><a href="http://youtu.be/SyhgsgrVxeg?hd=1">YouTube</a></em></strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #666699;">„Pan przychodzi aby władać ziemią. Prawo i sprawiedliwość podstawą Jego tronu” rozpoczyna swoje przesłanie na Boże Narodzenie dla całej Rodziny Wincentyńskiej, ks. Gregory Gay CM, Przełożony Generalny w prezentowanym wyżej filmie świątecznym. Do życzeń O. Generała przyłączają się Asystenci Generalni i inni członkowie wspólnoty Kurii Generalnej. Każdy z nich kieruje do nas swoje słowa w ojczystym języku co daje okazję nie tylko zobaczyć poszczególne osoby i je poznać, ale także posłuchać różnych języków, również egzotycznych. Film zawiera napisy po polsku i angielsku przy wszystkich wypowiedziach.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">You may also watch this Christmas video in other languages following these links:</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong><a href="http://www.godtube.com/watch/?v=KGPZDWNX">English  only subtitles</a></strong>; <strong><a href="http://www.godtube.com/watch/?v=KGPZDPNX">French</a></strong> and  <strong><a href="http://www.godtube.com/watch/?v=KGPZDGNX">Spanish</a></strong>.</span></p>
<p>Watch also another Christmas video prepared by the personnel of the General Curia, both Vincentians and lay personnel. This is first ever such presentation.  Warning! This video does not contain subtitles, except for two moments. Original languages only.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #808000;">Watch this film:  <a href="http://www.godtube.com/watch/?v=FE2C9JNU"><em>Christmas Greetings from Curia Personnel</em></a></span></strong></p>
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		<title>Christmas greetings from the Personnel of General Curia in Rome</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Unlike any other year before, special Christmas message is delivered from all the personnel of the General Curia of the Congregation of the Mission in Rome, Italy. Both members of the Vincentian community and lay employees are wishing you Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Everybody in the video speaks in native language and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Unlike any other year before, special Christmas message is delivered from all the <strong>personnel of the General Curia of the Congregation of the Mission</strong> in Rome, Italy. Both <strong>members of the Vincentian community</strong> and <strong>lay employees</strong> are wishing you Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Everybody in the video speaks in native language and although translation (English subtitles) is available for some of the speeches the atmosphere easily moves you into this special atmosphere of joy, peace and love always present during this family festival.</span></p>
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<span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>We recommend you another video message from the Curia -<br />
<a href="http://www.godtube.com/watch/?v=FE2CB1NU">Christmas Message from the Superior General and the Curia</a></strong></span></p>
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		<title>Living Holy Week with the Holy Father &#8211; Benedict XVI&#8217;s homily on Palm Sunday</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 20:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Thousands of people packed into St. Peter&#8217;s Square both young and old waving palms and olive branches taking part in the traditional Palm Sunday celebrations. Pope Benedict XVI led the faithful resplendent in red vestments and travelling in the fondly named Pope mobile blessed palms and olives branches as he made his way [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://cmnewengland.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/B16-PalmSunday-Reut-1.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1358" style="margin-top: 3px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px;" title="BXVI-PalmSunday-Reut-1" src="http://cmnewengland.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/B16-PalmSunday-Reut-1.jpg" alt="" width="125" height="176" /></a>Thousands of people packed into St. Peter&#8217;s Square both young and old waving palms and olive branches taking part in the traditional <strong>Palm Sunday celebrations. Pope Benedict XVI</strong> led the faithful resplendent in red vestments and travelling in the fondly named Pope mobile blessed palms and olives branches as he made his way to the specially constructed altar. The liturgy during the celebration recalled Jesus’s triumphant entry into Jerusalem and 3 deacons sang the Gospel which recounts Christ’s Passion. During his homily the Holy Father focused on man’s great achievements but he lamented the fact the these accomplishments have also given rise to good as well as evil. <span id="more-1354"></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #666699;">~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~</span></strong></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong><span style="color: #000080;">Dear Brothers and Sisters,<br />
Dear young people!</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000080;">It is a moving experience each year on Palm Sunday as we go up the mountain with Jesus, towards the Temple, accompanying him on his ascent. On this day, throughout the world and across the centuries, young people and people of every age acclaim him, crying out: <em>“Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!”</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000080;">But what are we really doing when we join this procession as part of the throng which went up with Jesus to Jerusalem and hailed him as King of Israel? Is this anything more than a ritual, a quaint custom? Does it have anything to do with the reality of our life and our world? To answer this, we must first be clear about what Jesus himself wished to do and actually did. After Peter’s confession of faith in Caesarea Philippi, in the northernmost part of the Holy Land, Jesus set out as a pilgrim towards Jerusalem for the feast of Passover. He was journeying towards the Temple in the Holy City, towards that place which for Israel ensured in a particular way God’s closeness to his people. He was making his way towards the common feast of Passover, the memorial of Israel’s liberation from Egypt and the sign of its hope of definitive liberation. He knew that what awaited him was a new Passover and that he himself would take the place of the sacrificial lambs by offering himself on the cross. He knew that in the mysterious gifts of bread and wine he would give himself for ever to his own, and that he would open to them the door to a new path of liberation, to fellowship with the living God. He was making his way to the heights of the Cross, to the moment of self-giving love. The ultimate goal of his pilgrimage was the heights of God himself; to those heights he wanted to lift every human being.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000080;">Our procession today is meant, then, to be an image of something deeper, to reflect the fact that, together with Jesus, we are setting out on pilgrimage along the high road that leads to the living God. This is the ascent that matters. This is the journey which Jesus invites us to make. But how can we keep pace with this ascent? Isn’t it beyond our ability? Certainly, it is beyond our own possibilities. From the beginning men and women have been filled – and this is as true today as ever – with a desire to “be like God”, to attain the heights of God by their own powers. All the inventions of the human spirit are ultimately an effort to gain wings so as to rise to the heights of Being and to become independent, completely free, as God is free. Mankind has managed to accomplish so many things: we can fly! We can see, hear and speak to one another from the farthest ends of the earth. And yet the force of gravity which draws us down is powerful. With the increase of our abilities there has been an increase not only of good. Our possibilities for evil have increased and appear like menacing storms above history. Our limitations have also remained: we need but think of the disasters which have caused so much suffering for humanity in recent months.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000080;">The Fathers of the Church maintained that human beings stand at the point of intersection between two gravitational fields. First, there is the force of gravity which pulls us down – towards selfishness, falsehood and evil; the gravity which diminishes us and distances us from the heights of God. On the other hand there is the gravitational force of God’s love: the fact that we are loved by God and respond in love attracts us upwards. Man finds himself betwixt this twofold gravitational force; everything depends on our escaping the gravitational field of evil and becoming free to be attracted completely by the gravitational force of God, which makes us authentic, elevates us and grants us true freedom.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000080;">Following the Liturgy of the Word, at the beginning of the Eucharistic Prayer where the Lord comes into our midst, the Church invites us to lift up our hearts: “Sursum corda!” In the language of the Bible and the thinking of the Fathers, the heart is the centre of man, where understanding, will and feeling, body and soul, all come together. The centre where spirit becomes body and body becomes spirit, where will, feeling and understanding become one in the knowledge and love of God. This is the “heart” which must be lifted up. But to repeat: of ourselves, we are too weak to lift up our hearts to the heights of God. We cannot do it. The very pride of thinking that we are able to do it on our own drags us down and estranges us from God. God himself must draw us up, and this is what Christ began to do on the cross. He descended to the depths of our human existence in order to draw us up to himself, to the living God. He humbled himself, as today’s second reading says. Only in this way could our pride be vanquished: God’s humility is the extreme form of his love, and this humble love draws us upwards.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000080;">Psalm 24, which the Church proposes as the “song of ascent” to accompany our procession in today’s liturgy, indicates some concrete elements which are part of our ascent and without which we cannot be lifted upwards: clean hands, a pure heart, the rejection of falsehood, the quest for God’s face. The great achievements of technology are liberating and contribute to the progress of mankind only if they are joined to these attitudes – if our hands become clean and our hearts pure, if we seek truth, if we seek God and let ourselves be touched and challenged by his love. All these means of “ascent” are effective only if we humbly acknowledge that we need to be lifted up; if we abandon the pride of wanting to become God. We need God: he draws us upwards; letting ourselves be upheld by his hands – by faith, in other words – sets us aright and gives us the inner strength that raises us on high. We need the humility of a faith which seeks the face of God and trusts in the truth of his love.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000080;">The question of how man can attain the heights, becoming completely himself and completely like God, has always engaged mankind. It was passionately disputed by the Platonic philosophers of the third and fourth centuries. For them, the central issue was finding the means of purification which could free man from the heavy load weighing him down and thus enable him to ascend to the heights of his true being, to the heights of divinity. Saint Augustine, in his search for the right path, long sought guidance from those philosophies. But in the end he had to acknowledge that their answers were insufficient, their methods would not truly lead him to God. To those philosophers he said: recognize that human power and all these purifications are not enough to bring man in truth to the heights of the divine, to his own heights. And he added that he should have despaired of himself and human existence had he not found the One who accomplishes what we of ourselves cannot accomplish; the One who raises us up to the heights of God in spite of our wretchedness: Jesus Christ who from God came down to us and, in his crucified love, takes us by the hand and lifts us on high.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000080;">We are on pilgrimage with the Lord to the heights. We are striving for pure hearts and clean hands, we are seeking truth, we are seeking the face of God. Let us show the Lord that we desire to be righteous, and let us ask him: Draw us upwards! Make us pure! Grant that the words which we sang in the processional psalm may also hold true for us; grant that we may be part of the generation which seeks God, <em>“which seeks your face, O God of Jacob”</em> (cf. Ps 24:6). Amen.</span></p>
<h5 style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/homilies/2011/documents/hf_ben-xvi_hom_20110417_palm-sunday_en.html"><em><span style="color: #666699;">© Copyright 2011 &#8211; Libreria Editrice Vaticana</span></em></a></h5>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://famvin.org/pl/2011/04/17/homilia-papieza-benedykta-xvi-w-niedziele-palmowa/"><em><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">Homilia Benedykta XVI w Niedzielę Palmową,<br />
17 kwietnia 2011</span></strong></em></a></p>
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		<title>&#8220;Are You Perfect?&#8221; &#8211; Lenten Retreat Reflections</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 02:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">You are busy and in hurry. You are on go. Simply, you missed the chance to participate. Your agenda does not give you a chance to take part in the Lenten retreat. Or, you are looking for some additional resources during Lent. Whatever your situation and intention is,  we invite you to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://cmnewengland.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Lent2011-2.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1281" style="margin-top: 3px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px;" title="Lent2011-2" src="http://cmnewengland.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Lent2011-2.jpg" alt="" width="155" height="155" /></a>You are busy and in hurry. You are on go. Simply, you missed the chance to participate. Your agenda does not give you a chance to take part in the Lenten retreat. Or, you are looking for some additional resources during Lent. Whatever your situation and intention is,  we invite you to stop by and reflect for a while.  We invite you to listen (or download) to Lenten retreat reflections from St. Stanislaus Kostka Church, Brooklyn, NY which originally were delivered (in English) on Monday and Tuesday this week by <strong>Fr. Astor Rodriguez CM</strong> from Vincentian Eastern Province.<span id="more-1344"></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://johnthebaptistbklyn.blogspot.com/"><strong>Fr. Astor L. Rodriguez CM</strong></a> is a Vincentian priest since 18 years. A zealous and vigorous, deeply committed to youth ministry and always enjoying contacts with other people. An Excellent, talented preacher. His sermons, as you will notice, are very special experience for everyone who listens to them.  Native in Brooklyn, NY with Puerto Rican  ancestors. He is parochial vicar in <a href="http://stjohnthebaptistrcc.org/"><strong>St. John the Baptist parish, Brooklyn, NY</strong></a> He speaks Spanish fluently, unfortunately he does not speak Polish except for few words.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://cmnewengland.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/AstorRodriguez-DSCF3544.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1346" title="AstorRodriguez-DSCF3544" src="http://cmnewengland.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/AstorRodriguez-DSCF3544.jpg" alt="" width="521" height="380" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><big><span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>Listen to Fr. Astor&#8217;s talk:</strong></span></big><br />
<a href="http://cmnewengland.org/audio/LentRetreat-20110404-Rodriguez.mp3">DAY ONE &#8211; Monday, April 4</a><br />
<a href="http://cmnewengland.org/audio/LentRetreat-20110405-Rodriguez.mp3">DAY TWO &#8211; Tuesday, April 5</a></p>
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<p>Thanking our Confrere from other part of Brooklyn we back up pastor of St. Stanislaus Kostka, Fr. Marek Sobczak CM in his words, <em>&#8220;Thank you Fr. Astor! We would like to thank you for finding time to be with us and for sharing with us your faith and love for Jesus! Thank you for leading us on our spiritual path toward Easter!&#8221;</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><big><span style="color: #ff6600;">Watch some pictures from the Eucharist lead by Fr. Astor Rodriguez CM</span></big></p>
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		<title>I Niedziela Wielkiego Postu &#8211; kazanie pasyjne [1st Sunday of Lent sermon]</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Rozpoczęliśmy Wielki Post. Czas wyjścia na pustkowie, refleksji i pokuty, czas spotkania Boga, pełnego miłoserdzia. Tradycyjnie przez najbliższe sześć będziemy rozważać tajemnicę Meki Pana Naszego i Jego smierć w nabożenstwie Gorzkich Żalów.  W tegorocznych rozważaniach, jak mówi kaznodzieja, ks. Jan Szylar CM, wikariusz parafii św. Stanisława Kostki na Greenpoincie, &#8220;przypatrzymy się wartościom, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-116" href="http://cmnewengland.org/2010/02/nabozenstwo-gorzkie-zale-bitter-lamentations-devotion/165px-gorzkiezale-cd-cover/"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-116 alignleft" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 8px;" title="165px-GorzkieZale-CD-cover" src="http://cmnewengland.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/165px-GorzkieZale-CD-cover-150x148.png" alt="" width="160" height="158" /></a>Rozpoczęliśmy Wielki Post. Czas wyjścia na pustkowie, refleksji i pokuty, czas spotkania Boga, pełnego miłoserdzia. Tradycyjnie przez najbliższe sześć będziemy rozważać tajemnicę Meki Pana Naszego i Jego smierć w nabożenstwie <a href="http://cmnewengland.org/tag/gorzkie-zale/">Gorzkich Żalów</a>.  W tegorocznych rozważaniach, jak mówi kaznodzieja, <strong>ks. Jan Szylar CM</strong>, wikariusz parafii <strong>św. Stanisława Kostki na Greenpoincie</strong>, &#8220;przypatrzymy się wartościom, bez których niemożliwe jest życie chrzescijańskie. Zobaczymy, jak podczas Męki Chrystusa przejawiały się wiara, nadzieja i miłość, prawda, posłuszeństwo oraz ich zaprzeczenia: niewiara, rozpacz,nienawiść, kłamstwo, nieposłuszeństwo.&#8221; Tematem pierwszego kazania pasyjnego jest <em>&#8220;wiara i niewiara&#8221;</em><span id="more-1302"></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Podobnie jak w ubiegłym roku postaramy się co tydzień udostępnić Wam nagrania kazań pasyjnych z kościoła św. Stanisława Kostki na Brooklynie, w Nowym Jorku. Będą one umieszczone jako poszczególne wiadomości na stronie głównej oraz zakładce  <a href="http://cmnewengland.org/worship/homilies-sermons/">«HOMILIES &amp; SERMONS»</a>, gdzie znajdziecie także kazania pasyjne z 2010 roku. Przypominamy także, że treść nabożeństwa z dołączonymi <a href="http://cmnewengland.org/worship/gorzkie-zale/listen-to-gorzkie-zale/">nagraniami</a> znajdziecie w zakładce <a href="http://cmnewengland.org/worship/gorzkie-zale/">«GORZKIE ŻALE»</a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://cmnewengland.org/audio/KazPas1-20110313-Szylar.mp3">Kazanie Pasyjne &#8211; 1 Niedziela Wielkiego Postu 2011</a></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666699;">Lent has begun. It is the time of going into the desert, time of reflection and repentance. It is the time to meet Merciful God. According to Polish tradition </span><em><strong><span style="color: #666699;">Gorzkie Zale</span></strong></em><span style="color: #666699;"> and Stations of the Cross are the most important devotions during the Lent. </span><strong><span style="color: #666699;">Sermons on Passion of Christ</span></strong><span style="color: #666699;"> are  essential part of the devotion, which usually is celebrated in Polish.   We realize, some of You cannot attend it due to various reasons. Also, we realize for those of You who are not speaking Polish it might be somehow inconvenient, but we invite you to join your neighbors in this time of meditation and prayer. In the first, so called Passion Sermon, this year </span><strong><span style="color: #666699;">Fr. Jan Szylar CM</span></strong><span style="color: #666699;"> preaching in the </span><strong><span style="color: #666699;">St. Stanislaus Kostka Church, Brooklyn, NY</span></strong><span style="color: #666699;"> said, </span><em><span style="color: #666699;">&#8220;we will look at the values which lacked makes our Christian life impossible. We will take a look at manifestation of faith, hope, and love, truth, and obedience in time of Christ&#8217;s Passion as well as their denial: disbelief, despair, hatred, lying, disobedience.&#8221;</span></em><span style="color: #666699;"> This Sunday&#8217;s theme was </span><em><span style="color: #666699;">&#8220;Belief and Unbelief&#8221;</span></em><span style="color: #666699;">.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666699;">As we did last year, we are delivering sermons preached during Gorzki Zale devotion on our webpage (they are in Polish).  Each Sunday sermons during Gorzkie Zale might be listened to or downloaded from here or from </span><a href="http://cmnewengland.org/worship/homilies-sermons/"><span style="color: #666699;">«HOMILIES &amp; SERMONS»</span></a><span style="color: #666699;"> subpage of our website. Text of the Gorzkie Zale (Bitter Lamentations) in Polish, including </span><a href="http://cmnewengland.org/worship/gorzkie-zale/listen-to-gorzkie-zale/"><span style="color: #666699;">performance by Polish Military Choir</span></a><span style="color: #666699;"> is available at </span><a href="http://cmnewengland.org/worship/gorzkie-zale/"><span style="color: #666699;">«GORZKIE ŻALE»</span></a><span style="color: #666699;">. English translation is coming soon.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666699;">We deliver sermons preached in </span><strong><span style="color: #666699;">St. Stanislaus Kostka Church, Greenpoint, NY</span></strong><span style="color: #666699;">. Preacher this year is </span><strong><span style="color: #666699;">Fr. Jan Szylar CM</span></strong><span style="color: #666699;">. The sermons are in Polish only.  We believe our offer will be helpful in your spiritual pathway through the Lent.</span></p>
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		<title>Vincentian Advent Inspiration</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Our Advent journey continues for the second week. The Big Day is coming up in two weeks. Some of us are already in rush &#8211; shopping, baking, writing cards, etc. But Advent is not a time of rush. It&#8217;s time of waiting! Time of reflection focusing on the miracle that happened twenty-one centuries [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><a href="http://cmnewengland.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Adventwrath-square240-INS-ENG.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1145" style="margin-top: 3px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 4px;" title="Adventwrath-square240-INS-ENG" src="http://cmnewengland.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Adventwrath-square240-INS-ENG-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="160" height="160" /></a>Our Advent journey continues</strong> for the second week. The Big Day is coming up in two weeks. Some of us are already in rush &#8211; shopping, baking, writing cards, etc. But Advent is not a time of rush. It&#8217;s time of waiting! Time of reflection focusing on the miracle that happened twenty-one centuries ago in the poor manger kept in a poor stable somewhere in the David&#8217;s town of Bethlehem &#8211; the Incarnation, when God became a man.  There are thousands of various resources for these special season around us &#8211; in the internet, libraries, relayed within families and communities. <span id="more-1131"></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">There are resources how to bake excellent cake, how to make Christmas tree decorations, palette of Christmas cards is larger than our senses can catch. And there are spiritual resources, the most important ones in this time especially for Christians. It&#8217;s important because Advent is the time of waiting and time of preparation for the Incarnation. It the time we have to make our hearts ready to sing <em>Gloria in Excelsis Deo!.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In this ocean of resources and offers here are some we would like to recommend you and encourage you to make your milestones on the road to miraculous manger.</p>
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<p><strong>✠</strong> Our Polish speaking readers can listen to Sunday homilies from St. Stanislaus Kostka Church, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY.<br />
<em>Naszych polskojęzycznych gości zapraszamy do wysłuchania niedzielnych homilii głoszonych w kosciele św. Stanisława Kostki na Greenpoincie, Brooklyn, NY</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Fr. Stanislaw Szczepanik CM</strong>, Director of Daughters of Charity, Province of Puerto Rico was the preacher on First Sunday of Advent. This homily, in Polish, refers to the Feast of Miracuolous Medal as well.<br />
<em><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Ks. Stanisław Szczapanik CM</strong>, Dyrektor Sióstr Miłosierdzia Prowincji Portoryko był kaznodzieją w I Niedzielę Adwentu. W swym kazaniu odwoływał się również do obchodzonego wcześniej święta NMP Cudownego Medalika.</span></em></p>
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<li><a href="http://cmnewengland.org/audio/KazAdv1-20101128-Szczepanik.mp3">Homilia na I Niedzielę Adwentu &#8211; 28 listopada 2010</a></li>
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<p><strong>Fr. Marek Sobczak CM</strong>, Pastor of St. Stanislaus Kostka preached on Second Sunday of Advent<br />
<em><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Ks. Marek Sobczak CM</strong>, proboszcz parafii św. Stanisława Kostki był kaznodzieją w II Niedzielę Adwentu</span></em></p>
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<li><a href="http://cmnewengland.org/audio/KazAdv2-20101205-Sobczak.mp3">Homilia na II Niedzielę Adwentu &#8211; 5 grudnia 2010</a>.</li>
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<p><strong>Fr. Lukasz Sorys CM</strong>, Vocation Director from Holy Name of Jesus Parish, Stamford, CT gave the homily on Third Sunday of Advent. It was the first day of Advent retreat.<br />
<em><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Ks. Łukasz Sorys CM</strong>, promotor powołań, parafia Najświętszego Imienia Jezus głosił homilię  w III Niedzielę Adwentu, która jednocześnie rozpoczynała tegoroczne rekolekcje adwentowe</span></em></p>
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<li><a href="http://cmnewengland.org/audio/KazAdv3-20101212-Sorys.mp3">Homilia na III Niedzielę Adwentu &#8211; 12 grudnia 2010</a>.</li>
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<p><strong>Fr. Jan Urbaniak CM</strong>, Vicar St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish, Brooklyn, NY preached on Fourth Sunday of Advent.<br />
<em><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Ks. Jan Urbaniak CM</strong>,Wikarusz parafii św. Stanisława Kostki głosił homilię  w IV Niedzielę Adwentu</span></em></p>
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<li><a href="http://cmnewengland.org/audio/KazAdv4-20101219-Urbaniak.mp3">Homilia na IV Niedzielę Adwentu &#8211; 19 grudnia 2010</a>.</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>✠</strong> <strong>Holy Father, Benedict XVI</strong> has addressed crowd gathered on St. Peter&#8217;s Square during the Angelus prayer on November 28, First Sunday of Advent with his message for this time of waiting and preparation:</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/angelus/2010/documents/hf_ben-xvi_ang_20101128_en.html"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Read the ANGELUS MESSAGE ON FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT (English)</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.deon.pl/religia/kosciol-i-swiat/z-zycia-kosciola/art,3862,benedykt-xvi-adwent-czas-oczekiwania.html"><span style="color: #ff0000;">Przeczytaj PRZEMÓWIENIE NA ANIOŁ PAŃSKI W PIERWSZĄ NIEDZIELĘ ADWENTU (polski)</span></a></li>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>✠</strong> <strong>The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops</strong> is providing a downloadable book of scriptural reflections for Advent and Christmas featuring the words of Pope Benedict XVI from homilies, speeches and other addresses during his papacy. The 37-page document includes a scripture quote and a reflection from the Holy Father for every day of Advent, which begins on Sunday, November 28, 2010, through the 7th Day in the Octave of Christmas, December 31, 2010. &#8220;Advent &amp; Christmas with Pope Benedict XVI&#8221; is a preview of the upcoming publication &#8220;A Year with Pope Benedict XVI,&#8221; which will be available soon from USCCB.</p>
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<li><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://usccb.org/advent/AdvChr.pdf">Download &#8220;ADVENT &amp; CHRISTMAS WITH POPE BENEDICT XVI&#8221;</a></span></li>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>✠ Superior General of the Congregation of the Mission</strong>, <span style="font-weight: normal;">Most Rev. G. Gregory Gay CM has addressed the Vincentian Family in his Advent Letter for 2010. He titled it «Christmas: A Story of Living Without Frontiers»  and focused on the Vincentian work managed by Daughters of Charity from West Central Province on US-Mexican border</span>.</p>
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<li><a href="http://cmnewengland.org/2010/11/aadvent-letter-of-superior-general/"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Read 2010 ADVENT LETTER  OF SUPERIOR GENERAL (English)</span></span></a></li>
<li><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://famvin.org/pl/2010/11/22/list-przelozonego-generalnego-na-adwent-2010/"><span style="color: #ff0000;">Przeczytaj LIST PRZEŁOŻONEGO GENERALNEGO NA ADWENT 2010 (Polski)</span></a></span></span></li>
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<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=473046845924">Homily for Third Sunday of Advent during the Mass for Vincentian students in Rome</a></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc99ff;">❈  ❈  ❈</span></h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>✠ </strong><a href="http://vinformation.famvin.org/"><strong>VINFORMATION</strong></a>, <span style="font-weight: normal;">the website for Vincentian spirituality and tradition and experience brings presentation inspired  by the Superior&#8217;s General Letter </span><a href="http://vinformation.famvin.org/advent-2010/"><span style="font-weight: normal;">titled </span><em><span style="font-weight: normal;">&#8220;VINCENTIAN ADVENT 2010</span></em></a><span style="font-weight: normal;">. Here you can view it in bilingual (English &amp; Polish) version adapted for this site&#8217;s purposes. (Full screen mode recommended)</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>✠ Fr. Anthony Kuzia CM</strong>, <span style="font-weight: normal;">Pastor of St. Patrick&#8217;s Parish, Pelham, NH invites to read short Advent reflections fro every Sunday of Advent on the Parish website:</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">❖ <a href="http://www.stpatricks-pelham.com/index.php?id=39&amp;sub_id=92"><span style="color: #0000ff;">FIRST SUNDAY</span></a><span style="color: #0000ff;"> ❖ </span><a href="http://www.stpatricks-pelham.com/index.php?id=39&amp;sub_id=93"><span style="color: #0000ff;">SECOND SUNDAY</span></a><span style="color: #0000ff;"> ❖ </span><a href="http://www.stpatricks-pelham.com/index.php?id=39&amp;sub_id=94"><span style="color: #0000ff;">THIRD SUNDAY</span></a><span style="color: #0000ff;"> ❖ </span><a href="http://www.stpatricks-pelham.com/index.php?id=39&amp;sub_id=95"><span style="color: #0000ff;">FOURTH SUNDAY</span></a> ❖</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>✠ International website fo Daughters of Charity</strong> -<span style="font-weight: normal;"> Filles-de-la-Charite.org &#8211; gives us every day Advent reflections based on Missal readings.<br />
Those who visit and follow </span><a href="http://www.twitter.com/CM_NewEngland"><span style="font-weight: normal;">our Twitter channel</span></a><span style="font-weight: normal;"> can read these reflection on each day of the week in English and in Polish.</span></p>
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<li><a href="http://www.filles-de-la-charite.org/en/focus.aspx"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Read DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY REFLECTIONS FOR ADVENT (English)</span></span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.filles-de-la-charite.org/pl/focus.aspx"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Przeczytaj ROZWAŻANIA SIÓSTR MIŁOSIERDZIA NA ADWENT (polski)</span></span></a></li>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>✠  Website of St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish</strong>, <span style="font-weight: normal;">Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY follows the invitation from Bishop Nicholas diMarzio of Brooklyn Diocese<br />
and publishes Advent and Christmas 2010 Calendar of Activities Promoting the New Evangelization among the Families of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn which can be an additional inspiration for us during this season</span></p>
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<li><a href="http://ststanskostka.org/wordpress/wordpress-content/uploads/2010/11/Advent_Calendar_2010.pdf"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">ADVENT CALENDAR 2010 (English, PDF)</span></span></a></li>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800080;"><strong><em>ADVENT PRAYER</em></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800080;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><em>O God, most high<br />
You send glad tidings to the lonely,<br />
And did not hide your face from the poor.<br />
Those who dwell in darkness you call into the light.</em></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800080;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><em>Take away our blindness,<br />
Remove the hardness of our hearts,<br />
And form us into a humble people,<br />
That, at the advent of Your Son,</em></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800080;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><em>We may recognize Him in our midst<br />
And find joy in His saving presence.<br />
We ask this through Him whose coming is certain<br />
Whose day draws near;<br />
Your Son, our Lord, Jesus Christ.  AMEN</em></span></span></p>
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		<title>General Assembly &#8211; closing homily by Superior General</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8220;To do or not to do&#8221; is one of the hihlighted themes in the homily  which  Superior General,  Fr. Gregory Gay CM gave during the Eucharist closing the 41st General Assembly. The other developed theme is derrived from the text above the silver coffin holding the body of St. Vincent de Paul &#8211; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><em><a href="http://cmnewengland.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/GGG-0716-homily.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-774" style="margin-left: 7px; margin-right: 7px; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;" title="GGG-0716-homily" src="http://cmnewengland.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/GGG-0716-homily.jpg" alt="" width="147" height="149" /></a>&#8220;To do or not to do&#8221;</em></strong> is one of the hihlighted themes in the homily  which  <strong>Superior General,  Fr. Gregory Gay CM</strong> gave during the Eucharist <strong>closing the 41st General Assembly</strong>. The other developed theme is derrived from the text above the silver coffin holding the body of St. Vincent de Paul &#8211; <strong><em>&#8220;Pertransit Beneficiendo&#8221; </em></strong><em>(“He went about doing good”)</em>. The Eucharist according to the liturgical text of Mass of Saint Vincent de Paul began at noon in the chapel with relics of  St. Vincent de Paul at Maison Mere.  <strong>Fr. Gregory Gay CM, the Superior General presided and all Assistants General concelebrated</strong>. Here is the full text of the homily, which one can recognize as Superior&#8217;s General exposé for another six years of his mission as the leader of Vincentians Family and Congregation of the Mission:</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300;"><strong>Homily closing the General Assembly<br />
by Superior General, Most Rev. Gregory Gay CM<br />
July 16, 2010</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300;"><em>Missal Readings: Is. 52:7-10,  Ps 95,  1Cor 1:26-31, 2:1,  Mt 25:31-46</em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>“To be or not to be, that is the question?”</em> so wrote Shakespeare. And what is our question? From the perspective of this General Assembly, from the motivation of its theme Creative Fidelity to the Mission, I would dare to say that our question is to do or not to do? Yes, that is our question, my brothers, to do or not to do the mission that the Lord Jesus Christ has entrusted to us as missionaries, priests and brothers, in the Congregation of the Mission.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em> “He went about doing good” (“Pertransiit benefaciendo.”)</em> Our historians claim that this is the first motto that Saint Vincent de Paul chose for the Congregation of the Mission. In imitation of Jesus Christ, focused on the Word of God, Vincent de Paul was struck by this phrase from the Act of the Apostles. It was Peter who proclaimed how God had anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power and “he went about doing good.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">My brothers, “doing good” is what we have focused on in this General Assembly: how we have done good, how we can be better at doing good, and in what ways we might be able to accomplish that good, being faithful to our heritage and yet ever creative in its expressions. In my report to the General Assembly on the state of the Congregation of the Mission in these past six years, I said simply but clearly that one of the most important developments, not only for the Congregation but also for the Vincentian Family that we had worked on with much intensity, was and is the question of systemic change. Systemic change, as I said, is a contemporary way that we live out that which motivates us to do good, the charity of Jesus Christ crucified.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Fears have been expressed, saying that such a focus on systemic change we might become like another NGO. Such is not the case when we have clear what it is, Who it is that motivates us to do what we do. The need is for us to make that connection, that integral relationship between contemplating the goodness of the Lord, deepening our knowledge of His love for us, and transforming that to loving action for the poor both by word and by deed, through evangelization and service of the poor.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Gentlemen, let me recall for you what Saint Vincent has said to the Congregation about the Common Rules Chapter 1, Art. 1. <em>“If there are any among us who think they are in the Mission to evangelize poor people but not to alleviate their suffering, to take care of their spiritual needs but not their temporal ones, I reply that we have to help them and have them assisted in every way, by us and by others, if we want to hear those pleasing words of our sovereign judge of the living and the dead: &#8216;Come, beloved of my Father; possess the kingdom that has been prepared for you, because I was hungry and you gave me to eat; I was naked and you clothed me; sick and you assisted me. &#8216; To do that is to preach the gospel by words and by works. That is the most perfect way. It is also what our Lord did, and what those should do who represent Him on earth.”</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The basis of our renewal, that is of our Creative Fidelity to the Mission is tied into: our love of God, being men of prayer: our love of the Congregation, being men who work at community life, that is participative and unifying: and men who draw close to the poor in order to listen to them, to be moved by their requests of us, being their servants: with a desire to be obedient to them as our lords and masters and therefore to open our hearts to that transforming experience of God&#8217;s love that takes place in our interaction with those who are poor. And we do so as a community. We do so motivated by God&#8217;s love.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As we are nourished by God&#8217;s word let us be nourished by God&#8217;s Body and Blood and go forth bearing the Good News. Let us do so as bearers of peace with a humble confidence that it is God who works in us, He who gives us the courage to break with our fears, being made afresh and moving forward, being only concerned to do what Jesus Christ did, <em>“going about doing good”</em> for these the least of our brothers and sisters. So be it for the Congregation of the Mission as it embarks upon a new era, a new period of six years of following Jesus Christ, evangelizer of the Poor.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">On Friday morning of the Solemnity of Sacred Heart of Jesus Pope Benedict XVI lead the concelebrated Eucharist with thousands of priests from around the world on Saint Peter&#8217;s Swuare in Rome. This concluded the YEAR FOR PRIEST started on June 19 lat year. &#8220;The priesthood, then, is not simply «office» but sacrament: God [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://cmnewengland.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/logo-ann-sac_300x400_sepia-239x320.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-595" style="margin-top: 3px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 7px; margin-right: 7px;" title="logo-ann-sac_300x400_sepia-239x320" src="http://cmnewengland.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/logo-ann-sac_300x400_sepia-239x320-224x300.jpg" alt="" width="134" height="180" /></a>On Friday morning of the <strong>Solemnity of Sacred Heart of Jesus</strong> Pope <strong>Benedict XVI</strong> lead the concelebrated Eucharist with thousands of priests from around the world on Saint Peter&#8217;s Swuare in Rome. <strong>This concluded the YEAR FOR PRIEST</strong> started on June 19 lat year. <em>&#8220;The priesthood, then, is not simply «office» but sacrament: God makes use of us poor men in order to be, through us, present to all men and women, and to act on their behalf. This audacity of God who entrusts himself to human beings – who, conscious of our weaknesses, nonetheless considers men capable of acting and being present in his stead – this audacity of God is the true grandeur concealed in the word  «priesthood».&#8221;</em> &#8211; pope said in the beginning of his homily during the Mass.  The full text is available below. <span id="more-591"></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">At the end of the Eucharist Pope and  priests taking part  said Act of Entrustment and Consecration of Priests to the Immaculate Heart of Mary (we will observe this feast tomorrow)  in front of  in the &#8220;Salus Populi Romani&#8221; icon brought to St. Peter&#8217;s Square  from the Basilica of St. Mary Major.    Then, the pope greeted participants  in various languages, including English and  Polish.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666699;"><strong><a href="http://famvin.org/pl/2010/06/11/homilia-benedykta-xvi-na-zakonczenie-roku-kaplanskiego/">Tekst homilii jest również dostępny po polsku</a></strong></span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #888888;">~~ ~~ ~~ ~~</span></h3>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><em><strong> Dear Brothers in the Priestly Ministry,<br />
Dear Brothers and Sisters,</strong></em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The Year for Priests which we have celebrated on the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the death of the holy Curè of Ars, the model of priestly ministry in our world, is now coming to an end. We have let the Curé of Ars guide us to a renewed appreciation of the grandeur and beauty of the priestly ministry. The priest is not a mere office-holder, like those which every society needs in order to carry out certain functions. Instead, he does something which no human being can do of his own power: in Christ’s name he speaks the words which absolve us of our sins and in this way he changes, starting with God, our entire life. Over the offerings of bread and wine he speaks Christ’s words of thanksgiving, which are words of transubstantiation – words which make Christ himself present, the Risen One, his Body and Blood – words which thus transform the elements of the world, which open the world to God and unite it to him. The priesthood, then, is not simply “office” but sacrament: God makes use of us poor men in order to be, through us, present to all men and women, and to act on their behalf. This audacity of God who entrusts himself to human beings – who, conscious of our weaknesses, nonetheless considers men capable of acting and being present in his stead – this audacity of God is the true grandeur concealed in the word “priesthood”. That God thinks that we are capable of this; that in this way he calls men to his service and thus from within binds himself to them: this is what we wanted to reflect upon and appreciate anew over the course of the past year. We wanted to reawaken our joy at how close God is to us, and our gratitude for the fact that he entrusts himself to our infirmities; that he guides and sustains us daily. In this way we also wanted to demonstrate once again to young people that this vocation, this fellowship of service for God and with God, does exist – and that God is indeed waiting for us to say “yes”. Together with the whole Church we wanted to make clear once again that we have to ask God for this vocation. We have to beg for workers for God’s harvest, and this petition to God is, at the same time, his own way of knocking on the hearts of young people who consider themselves able to do what God considers them able to do. It was to be expected that this new radiance of the priesthood would not be pleasing to the “enemy”; he would have rather preferred to see it disappear, so that God would ultimately be driven out of the world. And so it happened that, in this very year of joy for the sacrament of the priesthood, the sins of priests came to light – particularly the abuse of the little ones, in which the priesthood, whose task is to manifest God’s concern for our good, turns into its very opposite. We too insistently beg forgiveness from God and from the persons involved, while promising to do everything possible to ensure that such abuse will never occur again; and that in admitting men to priestly ministry and in their formation we will do everything we can to weigh the authenticity of their vocation and make every effort to accompany priests along their journey, so that the Lord will protect them and watch over them in troubled situations and amid life’s dangers. Had the Year for Priests been a glorification of our individual human performance, it would have been ruined by these events. But for us what happened was precisely the opposite: we grew in gratitude for God’s gift, a gift concealed in “earthen vessels” which ever anew, even amid human weakness, makes his love concretely present in this world. So let us look upon all that happened as a summons to purification, as a task which we bring to the future and which makes us acknowledge and love all the more the great gift we have received from God. In this way, his gift becomes a commitment to respond to God’s courage and humility by our own courage and our own humility. The word of God, which we have sung in the Entrance Antiphon of the liturgy, can speak to us, at this hour, of what it means to become and to be priests: “Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and humble of heart” (Mt 11:29).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">We are celebrating the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and in the liturgy we peer, as it were, into the heart of Jesus opened in death by the spear of the Roman soldier. Jesus’ heart was indeed opened for us and before us – and thus God’s own heart was opened. The liturgy interprets for us the language of Jesus’ heart, which tells us above all that God is the shepherd of mankind, and so it reveals to us Jesus’ priesthood, which is rooted deep within his heart; so too it shows us the perennial foundation and the effective criterion of all priestly ministry, which must always be anchored in the heart of Jesus and lived out from that starting-point. Today I would like to meditate especially on those texts with which the Church in prayer responds to the word of God presented in the readings. In those chants, word (Wort) and response (Antwort) interpenetrate. On the one hand, the chants are themselves drawn from the word of God, yet on the other, they are already our human response to that word, a response in which the word itself is communicated and enters into our lives. The most important of those texts in today’s liturgy is Psalm 23(22) – “The Lord is my shepherd” – in which Israel at prayer received God’s self-revelation as shepherd, and made this the guide of its own life. “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want”: this first verse expresses joy and gratitude for the fact that God is present to and concerned for us. The reading from the Book of Ezechiel begins with the same theme: “I myself will look after and tend my sheep” (Ez 34:11). God personally looks after me, after us, after all mankind. I am not abandoned, adrift in the universe and in a society which leaves me ever more lost and bewildered. God looks after me. He is not a distant God, for whom my life is worthless. The world’s religions, as far as we can see, have always known that in the end there is only one God. But this God was distant. Evidently he had abandoned the world to other powers and forces, to other divinities. It was with these that one had to deal. The one God was good, yet aloof. He was not dangerous, nor was he very helpful. Consequently one didn’t need to worry about him. He did not lord it over us. Oddly, this kind of thinking re-emerged during the Enlightenment. There was still a recognition that the world presupposes a Creator. Yet this God, after making the world, had evidently withdrawn from it. The world itself had a certain set of laws by which it ran, and God did not, could not, intervene in them. God was only a remote cause. Many perhaps did not even want God to look after them. They did not want God to get in the way. But wherever God’s loving concern is perceived as getting in the way, human beings go awry. It is fine and consoling to know that there is someone who loves me and looks after me. But it is far more important that there is a God who knows me, loves me and is concerned about me. “I know my own and my own know me” (Jn 10:14), the Church says before the Gospel with the Lord’s words. God knows me, he is concerned about me. This thought should make us truly joyful. Let us allow it to penetrate the depths of our being. Then let us also realize what it means: God wants us, as priests, in one tiny moment of history, to share his concern about people. As priests, we want to be persons who share his concern for men and women, who take care of them and provide them with a concrete experience of God’s concern. Whatever the field of activity entrusted to him, the priest, with the Lord, ought to be able to say: “I know my sheep and mine know me”. “To know”, in the idiom of sacred Scripture, never refers to merely exterior knowledge, like the knowledge of someone’s telephone number. “Knowing” means being inwardly close to another person. It means loving him or her. We should strive to “know” men and women as God does and for God’s sake; we should strive to walk with them along the path of God&#8217;s friendship.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Let us return to our Psalm. There we read: “He leads me in right paths for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I fear no evil; for you are with me; your rod and your staff – they comfort me” (23[22]:3ff.). The shepherd points out the right path to those entrusted to him. He goes before them and leads them. Let us put it differently: the Lord shows us the right way to be human. He teaches us the art of being a person. What must I do in order not to fall, not to squander my life in meaninglessness? This is precisely the question which every man and woman must ask and one which remains valid at every moment of one’s life. How much darkness surrounds this question in our own day! We are constantly reminded of the words of Jesus, who felt compassion for the crowds because they were like a flock without a shepherd. Lord, have mercy on us too! Show us the way! From the Gospel we know this much: he is himself the way. Living with Christ, following him – this means finding the right way, so that our lives can be meaningful and so that one day we might say: “Yes, it was good to have lived”. The people of Israel continue to be grateful to God because in the Commandments he pointed out the way of life. The great Psalm 119(118) is a unique expression of joy for this fact: we are not fumbling in the dark. God has shown us the way and how to walk aright. The message of the Commandments was synthesized in the life of Jesus and became a living model. Thus we understand that these rules from God are not chains, but the way which he is pointing out to us. We can be glad for them and rejoice that in Christ they stand before us as a lived reality. He himself has made us glad. By walking with Christ, we experience the joy of Revelation, and as priests we need to communicate to others our own joy at the fact that we have been shown the right way of life.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Then there is the phrase about the “darkest valley” through which the Lord leads us. Our path as individuals will one day lead us into the valley of the shadow of death, where no one can accompany us. Yet he will be there. Christ himself descended into the dark night of death. Even there he will not abandon us. Even there he will lead us. “If I sink to the nether world, you are present there”, says Psalm 139(138). Truly you are there, even in the throes of death, and hence our Responsorial Psalm can say: even there, in the darkest valley, I fear no evil. When speaking of the darkest valley, we can also think of the dark valleys of temptation, discouragement and trial through which everyone has to pass. Even in these dark valleys of life he is there. Lord, in the darkness of temptation, at the hour of dusk when all light seems to have died away, show me that you are there. Help us priests, so that we can remain beside the persons entrusted to us in these dark nights. So that we can show them your own light.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“Your rod and your staff – they comfort me”: the shepherd needs the rod as protection against savage beasts ready to pounce on the flock; against robbers looking for prey. Along with the rod there is the staff which gives support and helps to make difficult crossings. Both of these are likewise part of the Church’s ministry, of the priest’s ministry. The Church too must use the shepherd’s rod, the rod with which he protects the faith against those who falsify it, against currents which lead the flock astray. The use of the rod can actually be a service of love. Today we can see that it has nothing to do with love when conduct unworthy of the priestly life is tolerated. Nor does it have to do with love if heresy is allowed to spread and the faith twisted and chipped away, as if it were something that we ourselves had invented. As if it were no longer God’s gift, the precious pearl which we cannot let be taken from us. Even so, the rod must always become once again the shepherd’s staff – a staff which helps men and women to tread difficult paths and to follow the Lord.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">At the end of the Psalm we read of the table which is set, the oil which anoints the head, the cup which overflows, and dwelling in the house of the Lord. In the Psalm this is an expression first and foremost of the prospect of the festal joy of being in God’s presence in the temple, of being his guest, whom he himself serves, of dwelling with him. For us, who pray this Psalm with Christ and his Body which is the Church, this prospect of hope takes on even greater breadth and depth. We see in these words a kind of prophetic foreshadowing of the mystery of the Eucharist, in which God himself makes us his guests and offers himself to us as food – as that bread and fine wine which alone can definitively sate man’s hunger and thirst. How can we not rejoice that one day we will be guests at the very table of God and live in his dwelling-place? How can we not rejoice at the fact that he has commanded us: “Do this in memory of me”? How can we not rejoice that he has enabled us to set God’s table for men and women, to give them his Body and his Blood, to offer them the precious gift of his very presence. Truly we can pray together, with all our heart, the words of the Psalm: “Goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life” (Ps 23[22]:6).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Finally, let us take a brief look at the two communion antiphons which the Church offers us in her liturgy today. First there are the words with which Saint John concludes the account of Jesus’ crucifixion: “One of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once blood and water came out” (Jn 19:34). The heart of Jesus is pierced by the spear. Once opened, it becomes a fountain: the water and the blood which stream forth recall the two fundamental sacraments by which the Church lives: Baptism and the Eucharist. From the Lord’s pierced side, from his open heart, there springs the living fountain which continues to well up over the centuries and which makes the Church. The open heart is the source of a new stream of life; here John was certainly also thinking of the prophecy of Ezechiel who saw flowing forth from the new temple a torrent bestowing fruitfulness and life (Ez 47): Jesus himself is the new temple, and his open heart is the source of a stream of new life which is communicated to us in Baptism and the Eucharist.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The liturgy of the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus also permits another phrase, similar to this, to be used as the communion antiphon. It is taken from the Gospel of John: Whoever is thirsty, let him come to me. And let the one who believes in me drink. As the Scripture has said: “Out of his heart shall flow rivers of living water” (cf. Jn 7:37ff.) In faith we drink, so to speak, of the living water of God’s Word. In this way the believer himself becomes a wellspring which gives living water to the parched earth of history. We see this in the saints. We see this in Mary, that great woman of faith and love who has become in every generation a wellspring of faith, love and life. Every Christian and every priest should become, starting from Christ, a wellspring which gives life to others. We ought to be offering life-giving water to a parched and thirst world. Lord, we thank you because for our sake you opened your heart; because in your death and in your resurrection you became the source of life. Give us life, make us live from you as our source, and grant that we too may be sources, wellsprings capable of bestowing the water of life in our time. We thank you for the grace of the priestly ministry. Lord bless us, and bless all those who in our time are thirsty and continue to seek. Amen.</p>
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		<title>Greenpoint modli się za ofiary tragedii narodowej</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Polska społeczność Brooklynu  na Greenpoincie zgromadziła się w środę, 14 kwietnia w kościele św Stanisława Kostki aby nawzajem wesprzeć się w czasie Mszy św. pogrzebowej w intencji sobotniej tragicznej katastrofy lotniczej w której Polska straciła swojego Prezydenta i Pierwszą Damę, wicemarszałków Sejmu i Senatu, całe dowództwo sił zbrojnych, duchownych, w tym biskupów i [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><a href="http://cmnewengland.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Memorial_Mass_018_thm.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-374 alignright" style="margin-top: 3px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" title="Memorial_Mass_018_thm" src="http://cmnewengland.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Memorial_Mass_018_thm.jpg" alt="" width="192" height="144" /></a>Polska społeczność Brooklynu  na Greenpoincie</strong> zgromadziła się <strong>w środę, 14 kwietnia</strong> w kościele <strong>św Stanisława Kostki</strong> aby nawzajem wesprzeć się w czasie <strong>Mszy św. pogrzebowej w intencji sobotniej tragicznej katastrofy lotniczej</strong> w której Polska straciła swojego Prezydenta i Pierwszą Damę, wicemarszałków Sejmu i Senatu, całe dowództwo sił zbrojnych, duchownych, w tym biskupów i innych ważnych przedstawicieli państwa.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Przed godziną 19:00</strong> kościół św. Stanisława wypełnił się po brzegi, podobnie jak to miało miejsce w minioną niedzielę. Zabrakło miejsc siedzących. A stojących w zasadzie też nie było. <span id="more-371"></span> Jak to zauważyli dziennikarze, np. New York Post, na zewnątrz stał także tłum. W sumie ponad 1200 wiernych, parafian, brooklyńczyków, nowojorczyków, przyjaciół Polski w strojach codziennych, odświętnych i tradycyjnych ludowych.   Przyszli pomodlić się za zmarłych Prezydenta Lecha Kaczyńskiego i jego żonę, oraz za  poległych razem z nimi senatorow, posłów urzędników państwowych, oficerów, działaczy społecznych.  Wszyscy zgromadzeni modlili się patrząc na udekorowany kwiatami ołtarz, z którego boku wyeksponowano portret Pierwszej Pary Rzeczypospolitej autorstwa Kiki Garber.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Gościem honorowym był J.E. ks. bp Nicholas DiMarzio, ordynariusz diecezji brooklyńskiej, który nie koncelebrował Eucharystii ale modlił się podczas niej.  Przyszedł, jak to sam powiedział, &#8220;jako biskup, aby solidaryzować się z waszym krajem, rozpamiętując odejście tak wielu, tak wielu wielkich ludzi&#8221;. Przybyli przedstawiciele organizacji polonijnych &#8211; Centrum Polsko-Słowiańskiego, Polskiej i Słowiańskiego Federacji Unii Kredytowych, Pulaski Association of Business and Professional Men, Kongresu Polonii Amerykńskiej, Domu Narodowego na Greenpoincie, Ligii Morskiej. Przybyły poczty sztandarowe organizacji polonijnych, harcerze. Reprezentowany był także Polski Konsulat Generalny w Nowym Jorku.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Uroczysta Mszę św. pogrzebową koncelebrowali wszyscy pracujący w parafii księża ze Zgromadzenia Księży Misjonarzy z proboszczem, ks. Markiem Sobczakiem  CM na czele.  Współcelebransami byli kapłani z sąsiedniej  polskiej parafii Matki Boskiej Pocieszenia z Williamsburga, ks. Ludwig Kolodziej i towarzyszący mu kapłań z diecezji łomżyńskiej, ks. George Semeniuk CM z Vincentian Center w Oyster Bay, NY (Prowincja Wschodnia CM).</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://cmnewengland.org/audio/Msza20100414-1-pogrzeb-stacja1.mp3">Obrzędy żałobne &#8211; rozpoczęcie Mszy św.</a></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Liturgię rozpoczął obrzęd pogrzebu, tzw pierwsza stacja, która normalnie odmawiana jest nad trumną zmarłego.  Słowami &#8220;Panie wejrzyj ku wspomorzeniu memu&#8221; modlitwę rozpoczął ks. Jan Urbaniak CM.  Po nim ks. Jarosław Lawrenz CM i ks. Jan Szylar CM na zmianę odśpiewali <em>Psalm 130 &#8211; &#8220;Z głębokosci wołam do Cibie Panie&#8230;&#8221;</em>. Modlitwę końcową odmówił, ks. Józef Szpilski CM, wszyscy z parafii św. Stanisława Kostki.   W trakcie  tej części liturgii nauczyciele z parafialnej szkoły podstawowej św. Stanisława Kostki odczytali dostojnie listę wszystkich poległęch w katastrofie. Kolejne grupy wycytanych nazwisk i pełnionych funkcji oddzwaniał dzwon okrętowy Ligii Morskiej.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://cmnewengland.org/audio/Msza20100414-2-Liturgia-Slowa.mp3">Msza św. &#8211; Liturgia Słowa</a></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Po obrzędach pogrzebowych, ks. proboszcz od razu przeszedł do Liturgii Słowa, po której wygłosił specjalnie przygotowane na dzisiejszą Mszę św. kazanie poświęcone przede wszystkim poległym z Panem prezydentem na czelem. (Możesz przeczytać treść tej homilii <a href="http://cmnewengland.org/2010/04/kosciol-sw-stanislawa-kostki-homilia-w-czasie-mszy-zalobnej-14-kwietnia/">TUTAJ</a> lub posłuchać jej poniżej).  Po homilii odczytano Modlitwę Wiernych, tę samą, którą modlono się w czasie niedzielnej Mszy żałobnej za ofiary tragedii (przeczytaj jej tekst <a href="http://cmnewengland.org/2010/04/msza-za-ofiary-tragedii-narodowej-modlitwa-wiernych/">TUTAJ</a>).</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://cmnewengland.org/audio/Msza20100414-3-kazanie.mp3">Msza św. &#8211; homilia &#8211; ks. Marek Sobczak CM</a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://cmnewengland.org/audio/Msza20100414-4-Modlitwa-Wiernych.mp3">Msza św. &#8211; Modlitwa Wiernych</a></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">W trakcie Ofiarowania pani organistka, Małgorzata Staniszewska odśpiewała tradycyjny hymn eucharystyczny  <a href="http://cmnewengland.org/audio/Msza20100414-Ave-Verum.mp3"><em>&#8220;Ave Verum&#8221;</em></a>, po którym nastąpiła sama dlasza część liturgii Eucharystii, do której sprawowania  wykorzystano kielich z pateną, dar Lecha i Marii Kaczyńskiech dla kościoła św. Stanisława Kostki z 2007 (zobacz zdjęcia kielicha <a href="http://cmnewengland.org/2010/04/dar-prezydenta-kaczynskiego-dla-kosciola-sw-stanislawa-kostki/">TUTAJ</a> i <a href="http://cmnewengland.org/2010/04/gift-from-president-kaczynski-for-st-stanislaus-kostka-church/">TUTAJ</a>)</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://cmnewengland.org/audio/Msza20100414-5-Prex-Eucharistica.mp3">Msza św. &#8211; Liturgia Eucharystii</a></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Ceremonii Komunii świętej ponownie towarzyszył artystyczny występ na który złożyły się pieśni <a href="http://cmnewengland.org/audio/Msza20100414-Serdeczna-Matko.mp3"><em>&#8220;Serdeczna Matko&#8221;</em></a>, <a href="http://cmnewengland.org/audio/Msza20100414-Ave-Maria.mp3"><em>&#8220;Ave Maria&#8221;</em></a> Franciszka Schuberta w wykonaniu p. Małgorzaty oraz bardzo refleksyjne wykonanie <a href="http://cmnewengland.org/audio/Msza20100414-Adagio.mp3"><em>&#8220;Adagio g-moll&#8221;</em></a> Tomaso Albinioniego na organy i flet.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://cmnewengland.org/audio/Msza20100414-6-Komunia.mp3">Msza św. &#8211; Komunia św.</a></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Za zakończenie Mszy św. głos zabrał <a href="http://cmnewengland.org/audio/Msza20100414-DiMarzio.mp3">ks. bp Nicholas DiMarzio</a>, który rozpoczął od powitania zebranych po polsku słowami &#8220;Niech będzie pochwalony Jezus Chrystus&#8221;.  Po nim głos zabrał ks. proboszcz Marek Sobczak dziękując ks. biskupowi za przybycie i wspólną modlitwę we wspólnocie koscioła św. Stanisława Kostki. Po błogosławienstwie i rozesłaniu wszyscu odśpiewali <a href="http://cmnewengland.org/audio/Msza20100414-Boze-Cos-Polske.mp3"><em>&#8220;Boże coś Polskę&#8221;</em></a>.  Następnie wielu wiernych obcenych w kościele wpisało się do specjalnie wyłożonej przed ołtarzem księgi pamiątkowej.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://cmnewengland.org/audio/Msza20100414-7-Zakonczenie.mp3">Msza św. &#8211; słowa końcowe i błogosławieństwo</a></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Chociaż Msza się skończyła to jak zauważyła później na <a href="http://netny.net/currents/blogs/writing-the-wave/mourning-a-national-loss/">blogu katolickiej brooklyńskiej stacji telewizyjnej NET NY</a> obecna w kościele dziennikarka stacji Nathalia Ortis: <em>&#8220;poruszył mnie widok tak wielu ludzi, którzy jeszce przez godzinę po nabożeństwie nadal trwali w kosciele przechodząc z jednego miejsca w drugie, w ciszy, ze smutkiem na twarzy, niektórzy trzymając polskie flagi. Niektórzy ubrani w tradycyjne polskie stroje ludowe, a niektórzy ubrani w smutek w oczach. Jednak wszyscy zjednoczeni w swoim żalu.&#8221;</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Zobacz relację filmową przygotowaną przez <a href="http://netny.net/currents/video/stories/a-special-mass-for-poland-41510/">NET New York dla programu CURRENTS</a></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Msza święta żałobna ku czci tragicznie zmarłych w katastrofie samolotu Prezydenckiego w drodze do Katynia 10 kwietnia 2010 r.  zgromadziła w kościele św. Stanisława Kostki na Greenpoincie, Brooklyn, Nowy Jork setki wiernych wypełniających świątynię po brzegi w środowy wieczór 14 kwietnia.  To druga Msza żałobna w tej intencji odprawiona tutaj od [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><a href="http://cmnewengland.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/MarekSobczak-screen-NETNY.jpg"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-338 alignleft" style="margin-top: 3px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" title="MarekSobczak-screen-NETNY" src="http://cmnewengland.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/MarekSobczak-screen-NETNY-150x91.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="91" /></a>Msza święta żałobna ku czci tragicznie zmarłych w katastrofie samolotu Prezydenckiego</strong> w drodze do Katynia 10 kwietnia 2010 r.  zgromadziła <strong>w kościele św. Stanisława Kostki na Greenpoincie, Brooklyn, Nowy Jork</strong> setki wiernych wypełniających świątynię po brzegi w środowy wieczór 14 kwietnia.  To druga Msza żałobna w tej intencji odprawiona tutaj od chiwli katastrofy.  Poniżej zamieszczamy <strong>tekst homilii</strong> przygotowanej i wygłoszonej przez proboszcza parafii św. Stanisława Kostki na Brooklynie, <strong>ks. Marka Sobczaka CM</strong>:  <span id="more-365"></span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://cmnewengland.org/audio/Msza20100414-3-kazanie.mp3">Możesz także posłuchać tej homilii</a></span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>„A sprawiedliwy, choćby umarł przedwcześnie, znajdzie odpoczynek”</em> zapewnia nas autor biblijnej Księgi Mądrości.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">10 dzień kwietnia 2010 roku, godzina 8.56. Sobotni poranek. W Warszawie i Gdańsku, w Krakowie i Szczecinie, we Wrocławiu i Białymstoku wstaje dzień. Promienie słońca dziurawią chmury i budzą ziemię z nocnego snu. Domy wypełnia szczebiotanie wyspanych dzieci i rozbudzająca dorosłych muzyka.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">10 dzień kwietnia 2010 roku, godzina 8.56. Nad smoleńskimi lasami toczy się huk silników samolotowych radośnie zwiastujący przybywających gości. Lecz co to? Huk niespodziewanie zamienia się w jeszcze potężniejszą złowrogą ciszę. Nie będzie gości? Odlecieli? Oj, nie… Oni pozostali na mokrej katyńskiej ziemi. Uleciały jedynie ich dusze – i to na zawsze, i to daleko. Jakby spełniły się słowa Psalmu 144 – <em>„Człowiek podobny jest do tchnienia wiatru, dni jego jak cień migają…”</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Kilka minut później w nie tak odległej Polsce zamilkło szczebiotanie dzieci i muzyka dorosłych. Cisza katyńskiego lasu docierała do Polskich serc poprzez radia i telewizory. Wszędzie było to samo i o tym samym. Zginął Prezydent Rzeczypospolitej Polski Lech Kaczyński wraz z żoną i 94 osobami znajdującymi się w prezydenckim samolocie Tu-154M, lot nr 101.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">W niedowierzaniu zamarła cała Polska, później reszta nas, Polaków, rozproszonych na całym świecie. Rozdzwoniły się dzwony kościołów – jękliwie wybijając mosiężnymi sercami – tragedia narodowa, tragedia narodowa&#8230;  A polskie flagi, ze smutku i z żalu, okryły się kirem. Ludzkie gardła ścisnęła niemoc i tylko wargi szeptały &#8211; Wieczne odpoczywanie, racz im dać Panie….</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Stanęliśmy bezradni w obliczu śmierci osób, które przez ekran telewizyjny stawały się codziennie coraz bliższymi członkami naszych rodzin. Aż tu nagle, ich życie rozwiało się w naszych oczach, jak poranna mgła, która jest a za chwilę jej nie ma. Ale zanim zniknęła to sprawiła, że katyńska ziemia, uświęcona krwią polskich oficerów, ponownie nasyciła się krwią polskiej elity. Uświęcona czy przeklęta???</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Nad katyńskim lasem, prezydencki samolot zataczał wielkie koło podchodząc do lądowania. Wraz z samolotem &#8211; to los historii zatoczył wielkie koło po to, aby świat dowiedział się o męczennikach systemu komunistycznego i stalinizmu. To los historii (miejmy nadzieję) sprawił – Jego Majestat, Pan Prezydent Kaczyński, który tak bardzo dbał o polską pamięć narodową, jak żaden inny Prezydent Polski, zginął w miejscu najświętszym tej pamięci. Zginął tam, gdzie miał powiedzieć następujące słowa: <em>„niewypowiedziane cierpienia znaczyły drogę polskiej Golgoty Wschodu. Najbardziej tragiczną stacją tej drogi był Katyń. Polskich oficerów, duchownych, urzędników, policjantów, funkcjonariuszy straży granicznej i służby więziennej zgładzono bez procesów i wyroków. Byli ofiarami niewypowiedzianej wojny. Zostali zamordowani z pogwałceniem praw i konwencji cywilizowanego świata. Zdeptano ich godność jako żołnierzy, Polaków i ludzi. Doły śmierci na zawsze miały ukryć ciała pomordowanych i prawdę o zbrodni. Świat miał się nigdy nie dowiedzieć. Rodzinom ofiar odebrano prawo do publicznej żałoby, do opłakania i godnego upamiętnienia najbliższych. Ziemia przykryła ślady zbrodni, a kłamstwo miało wymazać ją z ludzkiej pamięci.”</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Czy ofiara życia Pana Prezydenta i 95 innych ludzi, którzy chcieli i mieli prawo być w miejscu kaźni swoich poprzedników sprawi, że może w końcu świat dowie się prawdy? Bo wcześniej, jak Prezydent Kaczyński miał powiedzieć: <em>„Ukrywanie prawdy o Katyniu &#8211; efekt decyzji tych, którzy do zbrodni doprowadzili – stało się jednym z fundamentów polityki komunistów w powojennej Polsce: założycielskim kłamstwem PRL. Był to czas, kiedy za pamięć i prawdę o Katyniu płaciło się wysoką cenę. Jednak bliscy pomordowanych i inni, odważni ludzie trwali wiernie przy tej pamięci, bronili jej i przekazywali kolejnym pokoleniom Polaków. Przenieśli ją przez czas komunistycznych rządów i powierzyli rodakom wolnej, niepodległej Polsce. Dlatego im wszystkim, a zwłaszcza Rodzinom Katyńskim, jesteśmy winni szacunek i wdzięczność. W imieniu Rzeczypospolitej składam najgłębsze podziękowanie za to, że broniąc pamięci o swoich bliskich, ocaliliście Państwo jakże ważny wymiar naszej polskiej świadomości i tożsamości.”</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I znów przyszło nam zapłacić wysoką cenę za prawdę katyńską, która ponownie pokrywa się całunem w kolorach niewinności i męczeństwa &#8211; białym i czerwonym – jak polska flaga, jak promienie z serca Jezusa na obrazie Miłosierdzia Bożego.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Tomasz Sakowicz – redaktor Gazety Polskiej – powiedział mniej więcej takie słowa: <em>„Naród przeżywa jedna z najgłębszych tragedii. Nie chodzi tylko o ilość zabitych, a nawet o to, że zginęli ludzie najważniejsi w państwie. Chodzi o to, że odebrano nam to, co powodowało, że Polska się zmieniała w ostatnich latach, uderzono samo serce zmian Polskich. Zrobił to ślepy los, wypadek, może coś jeszcze. Mamy połączenie katastrofy Gibraltarskiej z mordem w Katyniu, jakby w jednym miejscu, w jednym wypadku, w jednym zdarzeniu. Tym samym została wyzwolona wielka energia i wierzymy, że ta śmierć nie pójdzie na marne…&#8221;</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Oby zyskała na tym Ojczyzna. Oby zrozumieli to ludzie, którzy mają w ręku potężną broń czyli środki masowego przekazu. To oni mają moc łączyć i dzielić, manipulować i wpływać na ludzkie myślenie. Oby nie dzieliły społeczeństwa jak to było do tej pory, poprzez wyśmiewanie i szydzenie z człowieka, który był Prezydentem Polski.  Wyśmiewano go za jego katolicką wiarę i jej praktykowanie. Wyszydzano go za to, że żył to wiarą, że ją wprowadzał do życia ustawodawczego, do życia narodu – nota bene – tego narodu, który od wieków był wierny Bogu i zawsze stał pod sztandarem, na którym był wyhaftowany napis – Bóg, Honor i Ojczyzna.  Drwiono z niego, bo przywrócił dumę z faktu bycia Polakiem, spadkobiercą wspaniałych polskich pokoleń.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Mówiono o nim właśnie tak, bo zapomniano o tym pięknym aforyźmie: Do szczytnego celu prowadzi szczytna droga. Prezydent Kaczyński szedł do szczytnego celu jakim było dobro Polski szczytną drogą życia. Szedł drogą, którą powinien kroczyć każdy Polski obywatel.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Święty Wincenty a Paulo – człowiek historia – ten, który w 17 wieku stworzył dzieła miłosierdzia i jest fundamentem i kamieniem węgielnym organizacji charytatywnych w świecie – powiedział znamienne słowa: „Musisz kochać ludzi, którym służysz”.  Nie wiem, czy śp. Pan Prezydent czytał te słowa Wincentego a Paulo, i czy je choćby słyszał –wiem jednak, że on je praktykował w życiu. On kochał ludzi, on kochał Polskę. On służył człowiekowi troszcząc się o jego dobro i służył Polsce dla jej dobra. Prezydent Kaczyński był dobrym i ciepłym człowiekiem i widział w innych po prostu ludzi, a nie pionki w grach politycznych, miał olbrzymi szacunek tak dla Boga jak i dla człowieka, miał szacunek i wiarę we własny naród. Żył w przekonaniu, że w obecnym wieku – tak jak wcześniej – trzeba dbać o interes własnego państwa, bo jak my, Polacy, o niego nie zadbamy – to nikt tego za nas nie uczyni.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Taki powinien być każdy Polak, bo Polak, choć nie wierzył w Boga, był zawsze dżentelmenem i szanował wyznanie i poglądy drugiego człowieka, czego dowodem jest tak wspaniałe zadomowienie się narodu żydowskiego na ziemiach polskich, ewangelików czy luteranów przez wieki. Czego dowodem jest ratowanie Żydów przez Polaków, choć tylko na terenie Polski za taką pomoc groziła kara śmierci ze strony hitlerowców.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Kim są zatem Ci, którzy drwią z własnego prezydenta i którzy go nie szanują? Albo, kim są Ci, którzy już teraz sieją podział protestując przeciw decyzji o miejscu pochówku?  Polakami?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Kilka miesięcy temu będąc w Ojczyźnie rozmawiałem z kuzynki synem, dwudziestolatkiem, o potrzebie dochowania wierności polskim i katolickim wartością. Skwitował jednym zdaniem, wujek – ja jestem Polakiem, ale przed wszystkim europejczykiem, a tam to już niemodne. Polska pyta &#8211; Kto tych młodych ludzi tak wychowuje?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Dlatego jakże ważne wydają się być słowa, które napisał Tomasz Czarnecki w Gazecie Polskiej: <em>„Chciałbym, żeby od Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Lecha Kaczyńskiego Jego następcy nauczyli się kilku rzeczy. „Kilku myśli – co nie nowe” – jakby to powiedział Norwid. Przede wszystkim patriotyzmu, miłości Ojczyzny – nie na pokaz, nie na wybory, lecz prawdziwej, wynikającej z rodzinnej tradycji, książek, własnych przemyśleń. Także wielkiego szacunku dla narodowej historii, dla pokoleń walczących o to, „żeby Polska była Polską”, dla Żołnierzy Wyklętych, dla wszystkich tych, którzy po 1944 r. chcieli Polski wolnej, silnej, i płacili za to dużą cenę. Niech się uczą również zrozumienia dla polityki historycznej”.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Tragedia z 10 kwietnia 2010 r. obliguje nas do tego, by zawołać: Obudź się, Polsko, otrząśnij się z koszmarnego snu i spojrzyj na swoje korzenie, które przecież są chrześcijańskie, i wskrześ w sobie siłę, by z polskiej ziemi nie pozwolić wyrwać krzyża i Ewangelii, by zatrzymać polską tradycję i patriotyzm.<br />
W osobach, które odeszły, na czele z Prezydentem RP, mieliśmy to oparcie i tę nadzieję, że będą stali na straży wartości chrześcijańskich i polskich. (Tygodnik Niedziela)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Testament śp. Prezydenta Najjaśniejszej Rzeczypospolitej – testament  Polski wolnej, solidarnej, silnej, Polski-dobrej Matki dla wszystkich swoich dzieci, tych bogatszych i tych biedniejszych, tych z wielkich metropolii i tych z małych wsi – dostał się nam w spadku po Nim. Czyńmy więc swoją powinność, róbmy swoje, by – kiedy się z nim spotkamy tam, gdzie jest teraz – nie wytknął nam grzechu zaniechania.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Nad katyńskim lasem leciał prezydencki samolot. Mówią, że w pewnym momencie pochylił się mocno na jedną stronę i przez to, zawadził skrzydłem o drzewa i runął w dół ku swojej zgubie. Trudno tego nie odnieść do rzeczywistości. Oto w jednej chwili naród poniósł straty wprost niemożliwe do oszacowania. Straciliśmy prezydenta, straciliśmy prezesa IPN, rzecznika Praw Obywatelskich, prawie całe kierownictwo PIS, wybitnych polityków prawicy chrześcijańskiej, straciliśmy legendarną działaczkę założycielkę NSZZ Solidarność. Polska niebezpiecznie przechyliła się na jedno skrzydło. Oby nie był to przechył katastrofalny.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Na ulice polskich miast wyszły tłumy zapłakanych ludzi, którym zabrakło słów, których serca pękają z bólu. Lecz najgorszy jest ten nękający lęk, o to, co będzie dalej z naszym krajem, co będzie z nami. Odszedł Prezydent Kaczyński. Odeszło tylu mądrych Polaków. Nie wypowiedzą już prawdy, nie ostrzegą, nie uświadomią błędu, nie poprowadzą właściwą drogą!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Było skupienie, wyciszenie i zapalone świece przy Pałacu Prezydenckim, zapełniły się także kościoły w całej Polsce i na świecie. Oby to był dobry początek jutra naszego kraju i naszej Ojczyzny. Modlimy się o to słowami kardynał Józefa Glempa z homilii w Warszawie – Panie Boże, druga odsłona katyńskiego dramatu rozegrała się nie po naszej myśli, pozwól nam przez wiarę odczytać sens Twojej myśli. Chryste, ześlij swego ducha na Polaków.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">A duszom wiernych zmarłych daj wieczny pokój. Amen</p>
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