Eternal rest, grant unto them, O Lord…

In All Souls Day, when we pray in special way for all those close to our hearts who are now longer among us. In remembrance of of the Confreres of New England Province who departed to the House of the Father and all members of the Congregation of the Mission who departed into [...]

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Relics of Blessed Jerzy Popieluszko in Greenpoint

On Sunday October 17, 2010 St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY was blessed with the ceremonial reception of relics of Blessed Father Jerzy Popieluszko, chaplain of Poland’s SOLIDARITY and workers, martyr of Communist regime, kidnapped, tortured and sank in the reservoir of water electric plant in Wloclawek, Poland, by officers of [...]

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2010 annual retreat for the Confreres

Common Rules of the Congregation of the Mission emphasize the importance of regular spiritual exercises for Priests of the Mission. Thus, each year, every member of the community has to take part in five days retreat. This year 19 of the Confreres of New England Province came in to the Provincial Residence in [...]

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For God… for country… for Kanty…

Mike Trott (Kanty G77) has created this video slideshow, a tribute to the Vincentian Fathers who staffed St. John Kanty Prep in Erie, PA.  As the author said himself describing the video, “it’s sad, but it also reflects the gratitude many of the Alumni and feel… this tribute honors the Vincentian Fathers, deeply [...]

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Greenpoint remembers 30th Anniversary of SOLIDARITY Trade Union

Independent Trade Union SOLIDARITY in Poland is celebrating 30th Anniversary this week. On this occasion the special concelebrated Mass in Polish was given at 11:30 AM, Sunday, August 29 in St. Stanislaus Kostka Church, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY. Fr. Marek Sobczak CM, pastor, presided and Fr. Jan Urbaniak CM was concelebrant. In this way [...]

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St. Stanislaus Kostka School becomes Catholic Academy

The board of trustees has petitioned the Board of Regents of the State Education Department (the University of the State of New York) to form a corporation to operate a nursery school for preschool children from three to five years of age, a universal pre-k program, a kindergarten for five [...]

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Fr. RONALD WIKTOR CM died

“The length of our days is seventy years — or eighty, if we have the strength; yet their span is but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.” (Psalm 90,10)

On July 20, 2010 in age of 74, 53 years of vocation and 47 years of [...]

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2nd week of the General Assembly begins

Monday, July 5,  marks beginning of second week of the General Assembly in Paris.  Despite heatwave which delegates suffered from last week they gathered high spirited in the Aula Magna of Daughters of Charity Motherhouse at 140 rue du Bac as show representatives of  Province of  New England on the picture – Fr. [...]

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