The celebration of World Day for Consecrated Life invites all the Church to reflect on the role of Consecrated Life within the Christian community. Those who choose to live a consecrated life do so for the sake of the gospel. In 1997, Venerable Pope John Paul II called February 2, the feast of the Presentation of the Lord, to be observed as World Day for Consecrated Life. He explained, because “the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple is an eloquent icon of the total offering of one’s life for all those who are called to show forth in the Church and in the world, by means of the evangelical counsels the characteristic features of Jesus — the chaste, poor and obedient one.” (In the United States, when February 2 is not on a Sunday, we celebrate on the Sunday after the Presentation.)
“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 of storms in recent days our Provincial House in Manchester, CT is almost completely covered by snowdrop. However, as Fr. Rafal Kopystynski, Provincial said, “WE HAVE SURVIVED”. You can make sure he’s right watching these pictures shot at noon today. Fr. Marek Sadowski, Provincial Econome examines the situation.
“The world is not now what it once was, nor is it what it will be”, says Superior General, Rev. Gregory Gay CM in his letter released today, on use of new technologies in communication and mission. “Just twenty years ago few in the Congregation had any awareness of how the world would be changed by technology… ” Today “one web site alone, Facebook, has a population the size of the third largest country in the world… Have not missionaries always had to learn the language and culture of a mission territory?”, he continues inviting all Confreres to reflect on how new technologies can help in the mission of the Congregation.
Soon after the decree attributing a miracle to the intercession of the Venerable Servant of God, Pope John Paul II which cleared the way for the beatification was announced on Friday, January 14, 2001, the Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, Cardinal Angelo Amato, shared more details about the Decree and the coming beatification with the director of Vatican Radio’s Italian section, Roberto Piermarini. You may go to the link below to read all the interview or
«The Faithful Have Felt, Have Experienced That He Is ‘God’s Man’»On January 14, 2011 the Vatican’s Congregation for the Causes of Saints chaired by Cardinal Angelo Amato published the decree for the beatification of the late great Servant of God John Paul II. It was scheduled for Devine Mercy Sunday, May 1, this year. John Paul II died on the vigil of this feast six years ago. Vatican Radio published the document minutes after its proclamation. We publish the full text of the decree here:
We have received sad message from Provincial Office in Krakow, Poland about death of Mrs. MARIA KMIEĆ, 75, mother of Fr. Roman Kmiec CM, pastor of St. Stanislaus B&M parish, New Haven, Connecticut. She passed on December 27, 2010.Funeral ceremony will be held on Thursday, December 30, 2010. First, after the wake at her home, the body will carried in procession to parish church of St. Andrew Bobola in Szarwark, near Tarnow, Poland. After the Mass she will be interred in the family grave at parish cemetery. Let us keep her and her family in our prayers. Eternal rest give her, Lord! READ ANNOUNCEMENT
“…from all of us here in the General Council, as well as the entire Curia of the Congregation of the Mission, we say to all of you: “BUON NATALE” – Rev. Gregory Gay CM, Superior General, concluded greetings from himself and the General Council:
The celebration of World Day for Consecrated Life invites all the Church to reflect on the role of Consecrated Life within the Christian community. Those who choose to live a consecrated life do so for the sake of the gospel. In 1997, Venerable Pope John Paul II called February 2, the feast of the Presentation of the Lord, to be observed as World Day for Consecrated Life. He explained, because “the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple is an eloquent icon of the total offering of one’s life for all those who are called to show forth in the Church and in the world, by means of the evangelical counsels the characteristic features of Jesus — the chaste, poor and obedient one.” (In the United States, when February 2 is not on a Sunday, we celebrate on the Sunday after the Presentation.) 
“The world is not now what it once was, nor is it what it will be”, says Superior General, Rev. Gregory Gay CM in his letter released today, on use of new technologies in communication and mission. “Just twenty years ago few in the Congregation had any awareness of how the world would be changed by technology… ” Today “one web site alone, Facebook, has a population the size of the third largest country in the world… Have not missionaries always had to learn the language and culture of a mission territory?”, he continues inviting all Confreres to reflect on how new technologies can help in the mission of the Congregation. 
