Cooperation between the Friars of Germany and Poland
Friars from other countries have been working in Germany for many decades, especially friars from the Provinces of Cracow, Warsaw, and Gdańsk, in Poland....
Poland: New Deacons
On March 20, 2023, the feast of St. Joseph, Spouse of the B.V.M., three Conventual Franciscan friars, and a friar belonging to the Friars...
Poland: Lenten Retreats in Niepokalanów Lasek
On March 3-5 and March 10-12, 2023, two Lenten retreats were carried out for members of the Militia of the Immaculata (M.I.). Each retreat...
Niepokalanów Lasek: Retreat for Children and Youth
During the recent winter school break in Poland, a retreat for children and youth took place at the friary in Niepokalanów Lasek. The friary...
Ukraine: Charitable Activities in Kremenchuk
Back in the fall of 2021, a few months before full-scale war broke out; we had been planning out the next year of operation...
Custody of Ukraine: One Year since the Start of Russian Hostilities (Part 3)
Thanks from Bilshivtsi.
The Conventual Franciscan friary in Bilshivtsi, is in the transcarpathian region of Ukraine, a relatively safe area of the country. There are...
Custody of Ukraine: One Year since the Start of Russian Hostilities (Part 2)
Impressions of Mats’kivtsi.
Mats’kivtsi is a village situated within the borders of the city of Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine. One of our friars from the Mats’kivtsi friary...
Custody of Ukraine: One Year since the Start of Russian Hostilities (Part 1)
Impressions of Kremenchuk
I will never forget the morning of February 24, 2022. At 04:53 a.m. I was awakened by the sound of phone calls...
Light Dispelling Darkness
Completion of Franciscan Social Theatre Project for Ukrainians
Light Dispelling Darkness
On February 2-6, 2023, a follow up training for the new facilitators of the Franciscan...
Germany: Annual Meeting of the Delegation of the Province of Gdańsk
On Monday, February 6, 2023, the annual meeting of the Provincial Delegation in Germany of the Province of St. Maximilian M. Kolbe in Poland...