Tag: Poland
Poland: The Season for Laudato si’
The feast of St. Francis and the “Season of Creation” prayer initiative inspired a series of meetings with rich religious and ecological themes.
The meetings...
Poland: Beginning of the Postulancy
On Saturday, October 15, 2022, ten candidates began their postulancy, that is, their first year of formation. There were four candidates from the Province...
Poland: Inauguration of the Academic Year of the Franciscan Study Theological...
On Saturday, October 1, 2022, one hundred and one friars gathered to inaugurate the 2022/23 academic year of the Franciscan Study Theological Institute in...
Poland: New Novitiate Year
On September 8, 2022, the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, seven friars from Poland, two from Bulgaria and one from...
Poland: Summer Meeting for Missionaries
On June 1-4, 2022, a summer meeting for missionaries was held at the Warsaw Missionary Formation Center in Poland. Among the participants were three...
Poland: “The Church after the Pandemic”
On May 10-11, 2022, the 148th plenary meeting of the Conference of Major Superiors of Men’s Religious Orders of Poland (KWPZM) took place at...
Poland: General Visitation to the Formation Houses
During April of 2022, the members of the General Secretariat for Formation, at the request of the Minister General, conducted a General Visitation to...
Poland: 100 Years of the Knight of the Immaculate
On Saturday, January 8, 2022, the 128th birthday of St. Maximilian Maria KOLBE, the publishing house and friary in Niepokalanów celebrated the 100th anniversary...
Poland: Conclusion of the First Year of the Franciscan School of...
On Saturday, November 27, 2021, the Most Reverend Grzegorz RYŚ, Metropolitan Archbishop of Łódź, Poland, gave a lecture on St. Francis of Assisi for...
Poland: Friar Zdzisław KIJAS at the Bishops’ Retreat
On November 15-18, 2021, a spiritual retreat for the bishops of Poland was held at the International Marian Shrine of Jasna Góra in Poland....
Germany: Formation Time
On November 13-15, 2022, the Province of St. Elisabeth in Germany conducted a three-day continuing formation event for its German-speaking friars. The event took...
Poland: Three Chapters of Mats for the Upcoming Jubilees
Three formation meetings took place for the three regions of the Province of St. Anthony and Bl. James of Strepar in Poland (Cracow). The...
129th FIMP Ordinary General Assembly
From November 21-25, 2022, the 129th Ordinary General Assembly of the Federazione Inter-mediterranea Ministri Provinciali (FIMP) was held at the San Buenaventura Friary in...
The 1992 Extraordinary General Chapter in Mexico (Part II)
II. An Industrious and Constructive Chapter
In the first part of my recollections of the 1992 Extraordinary General Chapter in Mexico (which was published on...
A Culture of Care in the Amazon: Part I – Manaus, Brazil
Several days before my trip to the Amazon in the first half of November, Friar Erick G. MARÍN CARBALLO, OFM Conv., asked what I...