Topics which Fr. Rafal Kopystynski CM, Provincial of New England would like to discuss during his presentation in St. Louis on Thursday, October 13, 2011. “We have to look forward to the future and see some facts regarding our Province and the changing reality around us. As provincial let me name a few [...]
Program of the Heritage Pilgrimage
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“When it is winter, it is cold. This is the law of nature”, said a stoker to his boss by phone in one famous Polish comedy. Living in Eastern coast we can say, “when it is winter, it snows”. And it snows a lot. 16 inches? 20 inches? Who knows? After couple [...]
It was May 15, 1955. Deacon Wacław A. HŁOND CM and two his other Confreres received priesthood ordinations in the Province of Poland of the Congregation of the Mission in Krakow. Times were hard those days in the country. Europe behind Iron Curtain looked much different from the other part of the continent [...]
On Thursday, April 22, at “ninth hour of the day”, as the Bible might said it, most of the Confreres from Province of New England gathered in the chapel at Provincial House, the De Paul Residence in Manchester, Connecticut to start celebration of this very special event — 35TH ANNIVERSARY. In the year [...]
Autonomous Province of New England of the Congregation of the Mission was erected on January 25, 1975, Congregation’s Foundation Anniversary, by decree of Superior General, Most Reverend James Richardson CM. However, as the inauguration date was not specified in the decree, April 23, Feast of St. Adalbert, the Bishop, Patron of Poland [...]
Here is the letter from the Visitor of the Province of New England, Very Rev. A. Rafal Kopystynski CM regarding his request for giving visions for the future of the Community which was stated in the previous letter of January 11, 2010. 23 of 27 Confreres responded. Read about results.