Presentation of the Lord & World Day of Prayer for Consecrated Life

FOCAL POINT: “In response to His call, we have freely chosen to enter the Congregation of the Resurrection. In the Congregation, through the profession of vows of chastity, poverty and obedience, we propose to deepen out baptismal covenant by a life-long commitment to the love and service of our Risen Saviour.” (Con. 3)   Deceased: […]

St. Blasé and Ansgar

FOCAL POINT: “The eternal ‘alleluia’ of the Church’s Paschal season sums up our constant effort to praise the Lord.” (Con. 3)   Deceased: Fr. Luigi Oldoini, 1884, La Spezia, Italy Fr. Adolph Istok, 2002, Des Plaines, USA Fr. Henryk Worsowicz 2015, Miechow, Poland   Birthdays: Fr. Dariusz Tabor, 1958, Poland   For all of the […]

5th Sunday in Ordinary Time

FOCAL POINT: “Our entire life and work in the Congregation is to give glory to God, because He is infinite goodness and love.” (Con. 4)   Deceased: Fr. Anthony Laskowski, 1978, Chicago, USA Fr. Louis Mattus, 1981, St. Mary’s, USA Bro. Piotr Grybos, 2014, Rome, Italy   Birthdays: Fr. Arthur Kardas, 1964, Poland   Ordination: […]

February 5

FOCAL POINT: “In gratitude for His love and goodness to us, we desire to respond to God’s invitation by our life and vocation, offering Him love for love. ‘We, for our part, love because He first loved us’ (1 Jn 4:15).” (Con. 4)   For our parents, relatives, friends and benefactors, and for all of […]

St. Paul Miki and Companions

FOCAL POINT: “As members of the Congregation of the Resurrection, we give glory to God by manifesting the presence of the Risen Christ to the world.” (Con. 5)   Deceased: Br. Theodore Pieczarek, 1923, Chicago, USA Fr. John Ksiazek, 1990, Park Ridge, USA   Birthdays: Fr. Jaroslaw Plaza, 1978, Poland   For our members in […]

February 7

FOCAL POINT: “We will strive for our own personal sanctification by accepting Christ as our model and by living a life of ever-greater union with Him.” (Con. 5)   Deceased: Fr. Ignacy Witkowski, 1912, Vienna, Austria   Birthdays: Fr. Florian Stasinski, 1948, Poland   For the conversion of sinners, and for all in affliction, temptation […]

Sts. Jerome Emiliani and Josephine Bakhita

FOCAL POINT: “This life of union with Christ expresses itself through our union with our brothers in community, and will overflow into our apostolic life, which strives to bring to completion the establishment of Christ’s kingdom.” (Con. 5)   Deceased: Br. Marian Turalski, 1988, Brantford, Canada   For our deceased members and benefactors, for all […]

February 9

FOCAL POINT: “The goal of each of us who has been called to the Congregation of the Resurrection is to strive for his own personal resurrection with Christ in community and for the resurrection of society.” (Con. 5)   Deceased: Br. Jozef Goj, 1923, Rome, Italy Fr. William J. Kloepfer, 1942, St. Agatha, Canada Fr. […]

St. Scholastica

FOCAL POINT: “Our religious profession calls us to perfect our Christian life by following Christ so intimately that we live, die, and rise with Him.” (Con. 6)   Deceased: Fr. Leo Jasinski, 1925, Chicago, USA Fr. Alexandre Maluza, 2023, Osasco, Brazil   For the sick and the aged, and for those who are in any […]

Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time & World Day of the Sick

FOCAL POINT: “Christ destroyed sin by dying and empowers us to remove sin and selfishness from our lives by dying to ourselves through the generous acceptance of the renunciation implied in the perfect observance of our vows and in the many difficulties and disappointments of daily life, which constitute some of the crosses that Christ […]

February 12

FOCAL POINT: “We will empty and wholly deny ourselves, in order that Christ may dwell in us and act through us. Then we will be able to say with Saint Paul: ‘… the life I live now is not my own; Christ is living in me’ (Galatians 2:20).” (Con. 6)   Deceased: Archbp. Salvatore Baccarini, […]

February 13

FOCAL POINT: “In order to rise with Christ, we need to be open to the inspirations of the Holy Spirit who sanctifies us and conforms us to Christ.” (Con. 7)   Deceased: Fr. Francis Gordon, 1931, Chicago, USA Bp. Brian Hennessy, 1997, Southhampton, Bermuda Fr. Joseph Furmanek, 1998, Des Plaines, USA Fr. Stanislaw Ignaczak, 2005, […]