{"id":50057,"date":"2022-10-08T09:59:13","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T07:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofmconv.net\/polonia-danzica-festa-della-provincia\/"},"modified":"2022-10-28T10:05:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T08:05:32","slug":"polonia-danzica-festa-della-provincia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/polonia-danzica-festa-della-provincia\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland-Gdansk: Feast of the Province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On Saturday, October 8, 2022, the friars of the Province of St. Maximilian M. Kolbe in Poland (Gda\u0144sk) gathered in Elbl\u0105g, Poland, to celebrate the feast day of the Province.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This year, the participants had a special reason to give thanks, because the feast day of the Province occurred two days before the 40<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the canonization of the Province\u2019s patron saint, St. Maximilian.<br \/>\nThe celebrations traditionally bring together the friars from every friary in the Province. Other participants included a missionary working in Ecuador, Friar Damian PIETROWSKI; the Vice-Rector of the seminary of \u0141\u00f3d\u017a \u0141agiewniki, Poland, Friar Jacek KORSAK, along with the clerical students of the Province of Gda\u0144sk; the Rector of the postulancy program, Friar Piotr OKR\u00d3J, along with three postulants.<br \/>\nThe event began with the recitation of the Liturgy of the Hours in the Conventual Franciscan Church of St. Paul the Apostle in Elbl\u0105g, presided over by the local Guardian, Friar Grzegorz PI\u015aKO. After the prayer, the Minister Provincial, Friar Wojciech KULIG, invited those present to hear a reflection entitled, \u201c Cooperation&nbsp;with&nbsp;the&nbsp;Laity&nbsp;and&nbsp;Co-Responsibility&nbsp;for&nbsp;Evangelization\u201d presented by Father Jacek SOCHA, Pastor of the St. Nicholas Church in Gdynia.<br \/>\nThe central event was Mass at noon, presided over by the Minister Provincial. At the end of the Mass, the \u201c <em>Fraternitatis gratiarum<\/em>\u201d &nbsp;statuette was awarded as a sign recognizing the spiritual friends of the Order and allowing them to participate in the spiritual graces that God has granted to our fraternity. This year, the award was presented to spouses Jerzy and Teresa ROJEK, who have been working with the Dar\u0142\u00f3wek Parish and Friary since 1972. The award was accepted on their behalf by their pastor, Friar Sebastian FIEREK.<br \/>\nThe celebrations concluded with Evening Prayer presided over by the Vicar Provincial, Friar Andrzej LENGENFELD. Before the dismissal, Friar Wojciech thanked everyone for their participation and invited them to the next Provincial feast, which will be held next year in Kwidzyn, Poland.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Friar Piotr KUREK, Provincial Secretary<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, October 8, 2022, the friars of the Province of St. Maximilian M. Kolbe in Poland (Gda\u0144sk) gathered in Elbl\u0105g, Poland, to celebrate the feast day of the Province. This year, the participants had a special reason to give thanks, because the feast day of the Province occurred two days before the 40th anniversary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,115,148],"tags":[1695],"class_list":["post-50057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-federations","category-femo-en","category-news","tag-poland-gdansk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}