{"id":57090,"date":"2023-06-28T12:42:25","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T10:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofmconv.net\/polonia-incontro-fraterno-dei-missionari-polacchi\/"},"modified":"2023-06-28T12:44:24","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T10:44:24","slug":"polonia-incontro-fraterno-dei-missionari-polacchi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/polonia-incontro-fraterno-dei-missionari-polacchi\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland: Fraternal Meeting of Missionaries from Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>As part of an initiative of the Secretaries for the missions of the Franciscan Family, Franciscan missionaries are offered an opportunity every year to meet and spend some time together. This year, a group of eleven friars participated, comprised of Friars Minor and Conventual Franciscan missionaries from various African and Latin American countries.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On June 20-23, 2023, this event took place at the Brama Mazur Spiritual and Recreational Center, (and friary) in the town of Ostr\u00f3da, Poland. The friary is a presence of the Conventual Franciscan Province of St. Maximilian M. Kolbe in Poland (Gda\u0144sk). Usually, this event gives friars who work on other continents a chance to experience the culture and traditions of different nations\u2015and of the universal Church in those places, observing their particular characteristics and different ways of operating. Thus, this common fraternal time together was an opportunity for the friars to get to know each other better, share experiences, pray together, end enjoy some recreation time.<br \/>\nThe friars went on an outing to Poland\u2019s Warmian-Masurian region, namely, to the Marian shrine in the village of Gietrzwa\u0142d; to the town of Warmi\u0144ski, also known as the \u201cPearl of Warmia; to the Marian Shrine in the village of Stoczek Klasztorny where Blessed Cardinal Stefan WYSZY\u0143SKI, Primate of Poland, is interred; and to Frombork, the city of Nicolaus Copernicus. In addition, the participants had time for recreation at a lake near Ostr\u00f3da and met for dinner at the home of the Teresian Sisters.<br \/>\nEach day, the friars joined the friar community in Ostr\u00f3da for Mass, Liturgy of the Hours and meditation guided by the motto of the Pastoral Year <em>\u201cI Believe in the Church.\u201d<\/em> These activities fostered full communion with God and with the friars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Friar Robert KOZIELSKI, Provincial Secretary for the Missions<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of an initiative of the Secretaries for the missions of the Franciscan Family, Franciscan missionaries are offered an opportunity every year to meet and spend some time together. This year, a group of eleven friars participated, comprised of Friars Minor and Conventual Franciscan missionaries from various African and Latin American countries. On June [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57086,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,115,138,148],"tags":[1915,825,1695],"class_list":["post-57090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-federations","category-femo-en","category-franciscan-family","category-news","tag-meeting","tag-missionaries","tag-poland-gdansk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57090","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=57090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}