 Our Advent journey continues for the second week. The Big Day is coming up in two weeks. Some of us are already in rush – shopping, baking, writing cards, etc. But Advent is not a time of rush. It’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’s town of Bethlehem – the Incarnation, when God became a man. There are thousands of various resources for these special season around us – in the internet, libraries, relayed within families and communities.
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 It was a day like today on November 27, 1830 – the Saturday before First Sunday of Advent – when the Virgin Mary appeared to Catherine Labouré, a 24 year old Daughter of Charity novice during the evening meditations in the chapel at 140 Rue du Bac in Paris. It was the second time that the Virgin Mary appeared to Catherine. In her first apparition, during night on July 18, 1830 she promised her, “My child, I am going to give you a mission”. This mission was given to young Daughter of Charity on that evening of November 27.
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 On this Thanksgiving and this day of giving thanks,
we thank you for showing us how to return thanks by lives of service,
by actions of hospitality, by kindness to others and by concern for each other.
We want to give thanks to all of you for your presence.
We want to give thanks for God’s gift bestowed on all of us.
Happy Thanksgiving
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 As it was in previous years, Superior General, Fr. Gregory Gay CM addressed all members of the Vincentian Family in his Advent Letter. He entitled this year’s reflection: «Christmas: A Story of Living Without Frontiers». “The images of darkness and light, night and day, despair and hope, death and life, hell and heaven are images that often come to mind in our reflection and prayer during the time of Advent that we are privileged to begin again. These contrasting images are ever present and surround us in the world in which we live.” – we read in the Letter – “In His birth into poverty Jesus, by his word and deed, filled people’s lives with richness, peace, goodness, health, reconciliation and healing, leading them from darkness into light, from despair into hope, from death into new life. This past August I had the opportunity to visit Project Juan Diego, an apostolate of the Daughters of Charity on the US-Mexican border. It spoke to me of the gift of new life, the opportunity to be truly born that we receive at Christmas.”
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 On November 9, 2010 Superior General, Fr. Gregory Gay CM has issued a Circular Letter providing background on recent nominations of Curia officials: Econome General – Rev. Joseph Geders CM, Secretary General – Giuseppe Turati CM and Procurator General – Rev. Alberto Vernaschi CM. Below we present these Confreres to you according to the Circular:
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 The idea of cemetery germinated from the very beginning of the organization of St. Michael’s the Archangel parish in Derby, Connecticut. But it did not take fruit until 1939 when the large parcel of lawn among forest, half way between Derby and Ansonia was blessed and initiated as burial place for many Polish immigrants living in New Haven county. as well as thirty-five Vincentian priests and brothers from New England Province. All pastors and superior, most vicars can be found interred in this picturesque land.
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 Calvary Cemetery is the oldest massive burial place for Confreres of New England Province since first Vincentian pastor and superior of St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish, Greenpoint, Brooklyn was buried there. The cemetery is owned and managed by the Archdiocese of New York, actually by the Trustees of St. Patrick’s Cathedral. It’s one of the largest and oldest Catholic cemeteries in the United States. Located at 49-02 Laurel Hill Blvd., Woodside, Queens. NY. In 1846 faced with cholera epidemics Trustees decided it was necessary to acquire a large parcel of land to satisfy the cemetery requirements of a growing population.
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 Since first Vincentian Priests arrived to New Haven, Connecticut from Krakow in 1904 exactly ONE HUNDRED priests and brothers who lived for at least few years of their Vincentian ministry in New England departed to Eternal Father. Some came here for very short time. Some spent most of their life making United States their second homeland. For some, especially expelled missionaries from China, New England became a shelter because situation in Poland. Some are American-born. Whatever the reason it was, they gave their hearts and sweat of their brows to serve the people of North-Eastern USA. Sixty-six of them are interred in American soil.
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Our Advent journey continues for the second week. The Big Day is coming up in two weeks. Some of us are already in rush – shopping, baking, writing cards, etc. But Advent is not a time of rush. It’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’s town of Bethlehem – the Incarnation, when God became a man. There are thousands of various resources for these special season around us – in the internet, libraries, relayed within families and communities. 
