Jan 19, 2021 | POSITIVE IMPULSES
Laziness is our decision. It is a decision not to do what you have to do in the right time because you prefer to do something else which is more comfortable. It is always a choice of comfort over what is ought to do. And often this choice is for a comfort short-lived. The result of this choice is closing yourself in your comfort zone which in course on time turns on you with different pressures. So, to have a future with less pressures, choose not to be lazy today! Fill your day happily doing things you should do today. Make today meaningful and tomorrow stress-free.
Don Giorgio
Jan 17, 2021 | FORUM
The inhabitants of Brzezie stand with great trust at the tomb of Sr. Dulcissima, praying for intentions that, humanly speaking, cannot be resolved. The belief that Sister Dulcissima continues to help (as she promised) is still alive and gives spiritual wings to those who ask God through her intercession.
Regina, as she says herself, is still in a very close relationship with God’s servant. Sister Dulcissima never let her down and one night she dreamed of asking her not to stop praying.
Among the many favors she tells about, there is also a childhood experience that poignantly tells about the healing of her mother Lucia. This testimony confirms the fact that prayer has great power.
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In November 1956, my mother, Lucia became seriously ill. She was then 35 years old. At that time, there were five children at home, the youngest sister was 1 year old. Doctors gave no hope. The operation revealed a rupture and spilling of the gallbladder. Mom was all yellow, very quickly she had a very high fever of 40 degrees. She was taken to surgery. Despite the fact that her condition was really very serious, the doctor immediately decided that she needed an operation. Those were the years when there was no good medical equipment yet, it was difficult to diagnose what it was, but after surgery it turned out that my mother’s gallbladder ruptured with the first attack. It was very serious, my mother did not walk, but she remembered one moment when something or someone shook her, grabbed her and shook her. It was a breakthrough in this disease. After six months of hospital treatment, very emaciated, she was discharged from the hospital. We were counting on the fact that my mother might die.
At that time, the parish priest in Brzezie was Fr. Rudolf Adamczyk, who saw my father praying fervently in the church, approached him and told him: “Mr. Stawinoga, your wife is not going to die. We pray to Sister Dulcissima all the time. ” The doctor wanted to send my mother to the hospital in Wrocław for diagnostic purposes, but my father did not agree and said “I’m taking my wife home” to which the doctor replied: “but there is no help, your wife is already leaving.” Dad took Mum home and continued praying. After all this, my mother recovered quite quickly, and after five years my younger sister Maria was born.
A year has passed and my mother felt completely well, she decided to go to the doctor who treated her at the hospital to thank him for everything. When the doctor saw her, he got to his feet and said: “Are you alive? It’s a miracle”.
We know that our prayers have been answered. Sister Maria Dulcissima is the greatest treasure in our parish.
Prayer continues
In all our monasteries, we sincerely pray for the gift of beatification of the handmaid of God, Sr. M. Dulcissima Hoffmann. On the 18th day – each month – in the community in Brzezie, during the novena prayer, we read the intentions entrusted to us, which are sent by e-mail or by post.
We invite all readers of generalato.com to pray together.
Detailed intentions can be sent to the address biuro@dulcissima.pl, or: Sisters of Mary Immaculate, ul. Archbishop Gawliny 5, 47-400 Racibórz Brzezie. Poland.
Sr Maria Małgorzata Cur
Jan 14, 2021 | FORUM, NEWS
God decided to go to Jaszkotle. Again, it was different than what I thought or planned. Namely, after working at our Nursing Home in Żerniki, I asked God to save the Nysa from a pandemic. It was a purely selfish thought because the DPS in Nysa is dear to me and I remember working there with joyful heart. However, I knew that when Samuel’s sister, the current Director of this House, called, I would not refuse to help and I already knew what this work was about. And it happened. Sister Samuel called … And because I was already a bit ready and prepared for such information, I knew what to do. I only agreed with My Superior Sister that I would go to the Sisters’ house in Nysa earlier, and then I would start working in the DPS. What a joy I met when I received information on the spot in Nysa that Sister Dominika is also packing and she will be with me. I was calm. There will be Dominika, there is Samuel’s sister, Anna’s sister, I know the house, I know the children, … I breathed even more when the next day, Samuel’s sister announced that they had made it, our help in working with sick boys was no longer needed. On the same day, in the evening, the phone rang. From the Provincial Sister … OOO my first thought: “where else do we have DPS?” Not DPS but ZOL in Jaszkotle. A short communication message only to sister Dominika – “Are we going?” “We drive”!
God wanted it … We were sure of that … But always for something … Why?
We went how we could do, we did and we came back. The space is only a dozen or so days … And so much has happened … Especially in me! In my heart, in my conscience, in my perception …
God wanted so, “chose …” so that I could “choose …” always for something, ultimately for me … I received a hundred times more.
So what could God give me for such a short stay among children? Children who are very sick and at the same time very happy. Suffering and yet smiling. Wounded, yet full of trust …
Sometimes, when I had a free time after work, I would take a child in my arms and walk with him, talking to them without much sense. But often, too, I would just hug these children and think about their parents. I thought differently … sometimes only with reproach … I looked into their eyes … How I would like to photograph them … keep in mind … leave it …
I got back home. I asked for a moment just for me. I wanted to rest… But it was not only about rest, as it turned out. I met myself. I heard it softly, and then loudly and louder and louder … Why do they not want them … I want Jaś, Mateusz … etc. I WANT! It’s not that God. They don’t want… for a million different reasons. And I…
Motherhood is one of the most wonderful Gifts of God … it is some form of Divinity in a fragile human being. I gave up… gave away… I chose… several years ago. What could I know about this when I was twenty. Theoretically only. The real choice did not come – just now. Choosing Life for Life … These sick little creatures are left for me today … They are my motherhood and prayer for me today. They are … like pearls for the world.
The house in Jaszkotle, the house in Żenikach, Nysa and all our other houses, where we have sick people, left behind and devoted to us, are enclaves of good in this world where “choice, not prohibition” sounds different to me.
S.M. Daniela Gumienna
Jan 11, 2021 | NEWS
“How beautiful it would be if each of us could say in the evening: today I made a gesture of love towards the other”
Pope Francis
While the world is engulfed in a pandemic, where we constantly hear about restrictions and the statistics break new records, I decided to appeal to my friends on the social networking site Facebook and invite them to the “A cup full of sweets” campaign. For many years I have been working in the Nursing Home in Racibórz, where 170 mentally and nervously ill people live. From February, residents are forbidden to leave the house, and visiting their relatives is also difficult. In November, our home “visited” Covid. It made my head come up with the idea that this “SWEET MUG” would make Christmas more enjoyable, sweeten life, bring a lot of joy and show the residents that someone remembers about them in such difficult pandemic times.
The action was received with great interest in the first days and I was sure that it would have a happy ending. In the second week of Advent, we already had our first cups – and even Christmas packages. I was touched that so many people joined the action, from children from kindergarten and school, through students, parish groups, office workers and simply our friends. It was with great emotion that we received two large packages from our Center in Klenica as well as from Sisters and Friends from Wrocław – Żerniki. None of us expected such a result, so we collected 748 cups! The kindness and devotion was so great that we shared the cups with other institutions:
SPOKOJNA PRZYSTAŃ – The Baborowie Nursing Home
- Mother’s House “Maja” in Racibórz – Miedonia
- Nursing Home in Gorzyce through contact with P. Sylvia from Pstrążna,
- Association of the Friends of Men “Tęcza”
- Open Heart Association for Children in Kuźnia Raciborska, Samborowice, Cyprzanów
- Ziarenko Community Center in Branice
- Nursing Home run by the Congregation of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary in Kietrz
- Multifunctional Care and Educational Center in Pogrzebień
I would also like to thank my Community, and especially Sr Particia, for their commitment and support for this great field of goodness.
It was possible to see emotion in the eyes of the residents that there was someone who remembered them. In the second half of January, a Mass will be celebrated. for the benefactors of our Advent adventure …
Sr. Joanna
Jan 11, 2021 | POSITIVE IMPULSES
Criticism from others cannot be avoided. The first positive side is that there are honest people around. But then comes about the content of criticism and effect of criticism on us. If we are hit by criticism, it is an indication that we base principally our self-esteem on the opinion of others. And that we do things without conviction. When you face criticism, concentrate on the specific subject of criticism and not on you. Don’t take the criticism out of the context. Don’t let the criticism threaten your self-esteem. Take a moment to look to your opinion of yourselves and all the good in you. You are more than this criticism. What you are depends on how you deal with the criticism. Take the good in the criticism and make it an instrument for your betterment. Deal with it as a menu card offered to you in a restaurant!
Don Giorgio
