Vincentian Advent Inspiration

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 [...]

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They rest in peace… Calvary Cemetery

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 [...]

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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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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. Edmund Gutowski – 50 years of priesthood

1960 was rich in various events: U2 plane was shot down over Soviet Union’s territory; seventy million people watched debate between J.F.Kennedy and R. Nixon, olympic games were held in Squaw Velley (winter) and Rome (summer). And the Vincentian community observed 300th anniversary of death of St. Vincent de Paul. St. Stanislaus Kostka [...]

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Greenpoint modli się za ofiary tragedii narodowej

Polska społeczność Brooklynu na Greenpoincie zgromadziła się w środę, 14 kwietnia w kościele św Stanisława Kostki aby nawzajem wesprzeć się w czasie Mszy św. pogrzebowej w intencji sobotniej tragicznej katastrofy lotniczej w której Polska straciła swojego Prezydenta i Pierwszą Damę, wicemarszałków Sejmu i Senatu, całe dowództwo sił zbrojnych, duchownych, w tym biskupów i innych [...]

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Kościół św. Stanisława Kostki – homilia w czasie Mszy Żałobnej 14 kwietnia

Msza święta żałobna ku czci tragicznie zmarłych w katastrofie samolotu Prezydenckiego w drodze do Katynia 10 kwietnia 2010 r. zgromadziła w kościele św. Stanisława Kostki na Greenpoincie, Brooklyn, Nowy Jork setki wiernych wypełniających świątynię po brzegi w środowy wieczór 14 kwietnia. To druga Msza żałobna w tej intencji odprawiona tutaj od chiwli katastrofy. [...]

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