 On February 11 Church commemorates in liturgy Our Lady of Lourdes. Since 1992 it is also worldwide observed as World Day of Sick (initiated by late John Paul II). This year, it is also the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Apostolic Letter Salvifici Doloris of the John Paul II to bishops, priests, religious families and the faithful of the Catholic Church on the Christian meaning of human suffering. Also observed is X XV Anniversary of the Foundation of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers. Below you can read the text of Pope’s Benedict XVI Message for World Day of Sick 2010:
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 The weekend of February 7 is marked by 14th celebration of the annual World Day for Consecrated Life. The occasion is celebrated in the United States on the Sunday following February 2, to enable as much participation as possible. World Day for Consecrated Life marks an opportunity to highlight the extraordinary contributions of men and women religious in this country as well as a time to pray for vocations to the consecrated life.
Below, we present text of the homily His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI delivered during vespers on the feast of the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple (Feb 2):
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 It was clear sky on that day over Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center, Tuesday, January 28, 1986. At 11:38 EST Space Shuttle Challenger took off in mission coded STS-51-L. Among seven members crew was Sharon Christa Corrigan McAuliffe, social studies and CCD teacher from Concord High School, parishioner of St. Peter’s Church in Concord, NH. 73 seconds after lift off disaster broke planned for ten days space mission. Christa McAuliffe was intented to conduct science lessons directly from space as winner of NASA’s Teacher-in-space program. At 11:39:12 Challenger blasted off over the Ocean. All seven persons perished.
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 Fr. Marek Sobczak, pastor of St. Stanislaus Kostka Church, Brooklyn, shares the homily for Third Ordinary Sunday (January 24). We are working on publishing current homilies from various churches in our Province regularly. We believe you will like this idea. Please, give us your feedback and suggestions (use comment form below) on how much would you like us to deliver homilies and reflections regularly on our webpage in English and/or Polish. Here is the homily from St. Stan’s pulpit:
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 This Sunday, January 24, the St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish, Brooklyn, NY in cooperation with New York Blood Center will hold a BLOOD DRIVE. You are invited to come to St. Stanislaus Kostka School Auditorium, 12 Newell Street, Brooklyn, NY from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and give the gift of life – donate blood!
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 Welcome to new website of NEW ENGLAND PROVINCE of the Congregation of the Mission!
In next couple of days there is landmarking event taking place in the life of the Vincentian community in the United States. On the occasion of 385th foundation anniversary of the Congregation od the Mission major reconfiguration of American Provinces will take effect. Three Provinces in the Western Region of the country (Western, Southern and Midwestern) will merge creating new US WESTERN PROVINCE .
In the treshold of this special moment and to mark the anniversary of the Congregation worldwide we launch our new, rebuilt and refreshed website, including new URL address. Many of you visited our previous site often. We hope, this new site and its content will attract you more and more. We believe, we are able to meet your expectations and your needs in our new webpresence. As you have already noticed we are already present on TWITTER (as second CM Province) and on FACEBOOK (as third in row). All these efforts are taken to get us closer to you in those places where we all are more and more present.
At the moment this new website is available in English only. We are working on preparing its Polish version. There is still long way to go. We believe in next weeks the website will get final shape. Forgive us some inconveniences in this time.
The previous NEPCM.ORG website will be available till end of January. Aferwards connections will be redirected to new location.
We invite you to visit us in this new location
and to forward this new address to your friends.
Any comments and suggestions on the new site and our web presence are warmly welcomed either as comments to this and other posts, or directly contacting the Provincial Office or Webmaster
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