Saint Therese of the Child Jesus

FOCAL POINT: “Under the pressure of apostolic activity, the Resurrectionist will maintain a unity in his work and spirituality.” (Con. 194)   Deceased: Fr. Joseph Zwierzycki, 1963, Chicago, USA Fr. Ernest Schumacher, 2001, Louisville, USA   Bishop Ordination: Bishop Wesley Spiewak, 2015, Bermuda   For the Church, our Holy Father, and for our local ordinary. […]

July 1 – Canada Day

FOCAL POINT: “Mindful that our own personal sanctification and effective apostolic work flow from a vital union with Him, we too strive to become men of prayer.” (Con. 54)   Deceased: Fr. Pawel Tudyka, 1921, Gdansk, Poland Fr. Stanislaw Skierawski, 1945, Gniew, Poland   For the Church, our Holy Father and the local ordinary. For […]

Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

FOCAL POINT: “From the very beginning we were convinced that, if our own personal conversion and that of other brothers who were on the way to closer union with God were to be effective, it was proper and necessary that we withdraw from the social circles in which we lived and gather together to form […]

St. Thomas

FOCAL POINT: “Mary teaches us how to intercede for the needs of others and to pray for the outpouring of the Spirit upon the Church.” (Con. 55)   Deceased: Fr. Alexander Kocon, 1991, Chicago, USA Fr. Norman Choate, 2011, North Fort Myers, USA Fr. Mieczyslaw Czubaj, 2015, Morawica, Poland   Birthday: Fr. Jerzy Walkusz, 1934, […]

St. Elizabeth of Portugal

FOCAL POINT: “We honor Mary as Mother of our Congregation by imitating Her life of prayer, by praying to Her and by observing Her feasts in the liturgy.” (Con. 55)   Ordinations: Fr. Henry Ruszel, 1954, USA Fr. Szymon Zaniewski, 2020, Poland   For all of those who have recommended themselves to our prayers. For […]

St. Anthony Zaccaria

FOCAL POINT: “Liturgical prayer, which is offered to God in union with Christ and in His name, is given the primary place in our life of prayer, because it is in this prayer especially that we offer the Father perfect praise and also that we experience our oneness with all the people of God.” (Con. […]

St. Maria Goretti

FOCAL POINT: “The Eucharist is the central act of our daily life because it is here, through our participation in Christ’s Paschal Mystery by dying and rising with Him, that we encounter the deepest meaning of the Resurrection.” (Con. 57)   Deceased: Br. Franciszek Staniewski, 1885, Rome, Italy Fr. Joseph Wise, 1999, Des Plaines, USA […]

Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

FOCAL POINT: “In the Eucharist, we also experience reconciliation with our brothers and sisters and unity of heart and soul as we, together with Christ, offer ourselves to the Father.” (Con. 57)   Deceased: Fr. Leonard Long, 1966, Waukegan, USA Fr. Hubert Gehl, 1985, Kitchener, Canada   For our deceased members and benefactors and for […]

July 8

FOCAL POINT: “It is in the Eucharist that Christ, our spiritual food, enables us to strengthen our baptismal and religious commitments. A natural outcome of our participation in the Eucharist is our devotion to Christ in the Blessed Sacrament.” (Con. 57)   Deceased: Fr. Wincenty Wenglicki, 1956, Sulislawice, Poland Fr. Leon Chocieszynski, 1970, Vienna, Austria […]

Saint Augustine Zhao Rong and Companions

FOCAL POINT: “A frequent encounter with the Risen Christ in the Sacrament of Reconciliation forms an essential part of our liturgical prayer because it is here that we acknowledge our complete dependence on Him and receive the power to die to sin and to become conformed to Him. This Sacrament also effects reconciliation between ourselves […]