Superior General announces Vincentian Day of Prayer

“…I write to you in order to present some comments with regard to the Vincentian Family Day of Prayer which will take place on the feast of Saint Vincent de Paul…” Its proposed theme is «Harvest the fruits of the Jubilee Year!», says Superior General Rev. Gregory Gay CM in his letter addressed [...]

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Beatification of Sr. Marguerite Rutan DC – June 19, 2011

Holy Trinity Sunday, June 19, 2011 was a great feast in the city of Dax in is South Western France. A martyr of French Revolution, first Superioress and Director of the city hospital, Sister Marguerite Rutan, Daughter of Charity guillotined on April 7, 1794 was beatified. The solemn ceremony begun minutes after 3:00 [...]

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Fr. Mitchell Wanat CM – 40 years as teacher and pastor

Of forty years in priesthood almost a half of it he dedicated to teaching and educating young people being idolized by students either at St. John Kanty Prep in Erie, PA or in Bishop Brady High School, Concord, NH. For the other half, he has been living in parochial ministry as vicar, administrator [...]

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Invitation for 2011 Kanty Reunion

The 1961 Graduating Class of St. John Kanty Prep and the 2011 Kanty Prep Reunion Committee invite Alumni, Faculty, Staff, Clergy, Students and Friends of Kanty Reunion for an annual celebration during the weekend of September 16 through 18 in The Avalon Hotel & Conference Center, Erie, Pennsylvania, we learn from the official [...]

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Fr. Marek Sobczak CM – a priest since thirty years

April 25, is the feast of St. Mark, Evangelist. In 1981, this day was the magnificent event in the Vincentian seminary and Province of Poland, too. Twenty young men were ordained priests, another ten were received to deaconate. It was second time in the post war history of Province of Poland to have [...]

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Message for the 19th World Day of the Sick: By his wounds you have been healed’

In 1992 Pope John Paul II designated 11 February, Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, to be an annual day of prayer and consideration of the sick and of those who care for them. This is now known as the World Day of Prayer for the Sick which becomes, as the venerable John [...]

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15th Day of Consecrated Life – Pope’s address during prayer of Vespers

In 1997 Venerable Pope John Paul II begun commemoration of the World Day of Consecrated Life which is celebrated on the Feast of Presentation of the Lorld. In the United States this day is observed on the Sunday after February 2. In 2011, it is on Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, February 6. [...]

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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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