It has become a tradition that before Christmas, our community in the Philippines visits the local women’s prison in Mandaluyong, where Ms. Basia from Poland has been incarcerated for more than 13 years. The meeting was accompanied by great emotion and much joy. At the end, Ms. Basia gave us a handmade small Christmas tree made of beads.
s. Agata
HOW WE CELEBRATED OUR FEAST OF OUR PATRON OUR MOTHER MARY IMMACULATE
IN OUR TANZANIAN REGION IN CHIKUKWE 08.12.2024
Real we thank God for the gift of our Founder John Schneider, because this year we commemorizing universary of the Jubilee of 200 Years of his birth. His life is the catalist of our life now a days. Also we are so happy for the 170 Jubilee of our Congregation. How much good things we received in our Congregation daily. The important thing for us is to deepen our Evangelization wherever we are, and to bring our Charisma of our Congregation in perferial by living honest the last word which our Founder John Schneider given us as her beloved daughers of Mary Immaculate ‘To live in Unity and Love among us’
As you see we gatherd for thanking God for the life of our Founder.
Here are all representative in any community in the Tanzanian Region
At St. Marienkrankenhaus Berlin, as in other Catholic hospitals, it has been a long-standing tradition to organize a pre-Christmas celebration for the patients.
This was also the case on 12 December 2024, when a representative of the Archbishop of Berlin, Dr. Heiner Koch, always attends this Christmas party. This year, it was Cathedral Provost Prelate Tobias Przytarski who, together with the hospital’s Catholic and Protestant chaplains, brought the bishop’s greetings to the patients.
The Christmas celebration began in the hospital chapel with a short prayer service. Hospital staff, nursing staff, doctors, student nurses and also many nuns took part, before going to the individual wards together with the cathedral provost and the chaplains and performing Christmas carols for the patients.
The cathedral provost and the chaplains went to each individual patient and the surprise and joy of the patients was written all over their faces. Some cried, others sang along and this was a rich reward for all those involved in the organization, in the profound experience that he who gives receives it back a thousandfold.
In this joy, a dinner was then held for all those involved in the St. Augustine monastery and it was a happy conclusion to this successful celebration.
The day of the Jubilee of our Congregation is also a time to celebrate the Groups of the Children of Mary. In the parish of St. Matthew and St. Matthias in Brzezie, 11 new children made their vows to Our Lady, were added to the Group and received Miraculous Medals.
There was a joint photo with the priests and Sisters, also they had breakfast. There was plenty of conversation and fun together.
We wish the Sisters and the Children of Mary the love for Mary that the Lord Jesus had and fidelity to the pledge they made.
On Saturday, December 7, we celebrated 170 years of the Congregation of the Sisters of Mary Immaculate. The solemn thanksgiving Mass was presided over by Archbishop Joseph Kupny, Metropolitan of Wroclaw. The Eucharist, attended by seven bishops, many priests, sisters from various religious congregations and numerous friends of our religious family, was celebrated in the Parish of the Blessed Virgin Mary on the Sand in Wroclaw . It is here that the tomb of the congregation’s founder, the Servant of God Fr. Jan Schneider, an extraordinary defender and protector of women, is located.
On November 21, the liturgical commemoration of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, we made a pilgrimage to Our Lady Guardian of Faith in Bardo.
The 98th Thanksgiving pilgrimage of the Congregation of the Sisters of Mary Immaculate gathered sisters from many Polish missions; sisters from Rome and Germany were also present. We prayed together with the sisters of the general and provincial boards, and were spiritually united with us by the elderly and sick sisters, including those who stayed at home. At the Sanctuary of Our Lady Guardian of the Holy Faith at 10:30 a.m., we began praying the rosary, which spiritually introduced us to the Eucharist.
The Mass, celebrated under the presidency of parish priest Father Piotr Wisniewski CSsR and the co-celebrating priests, was a heartfelt thanksgiving offering for each of us.
During his homily, Father Pastor encouraged everyone to have good memories of the past years, when each of us wanted to offer our lives to God, to offer so seriously and without reservation.
Provincial Superior Sr. M. Magdalena Zablotna, in the Act of Entrustment, placed the Congregation of the Sisters of Mary Immaculate under the protection of the Guardian of the Holy Faith The Sister Choir, under the watchful eye of Sr. Barbara Mroziak, made. That the liturgy had a beautiful solemn character.
The Magnificat, sung from the heart, opened our souls to praise God here and now, for great things the Almighty has done for us, and holy is His Name.
S.Małgorzata Cur SMI
