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A CHURCH OF MERCY IN WAR
During Lent I have presented martyrs who died at the hands of the Nazis in WWII, many were priests who refused to abandon their flocks. Today we see the same situation in Ukraine, with priests who...
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SAINT OF DACHAU
Unlike our previous saints for Lent, ST. TITUS BRANDSMA was not Polish. He was born Anno Sjoerd Brandsma to Titus Brandsma and his wife Tjitsje Postma at Oegeklooster, near Hartwerd, in the Province...
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CARMELITES AT DACHAU
BLESSED HILARY JANUSZEWSKIwas born in1907 in Krajenki, Poland and was given the name of Pawel. He received a Christian education from his parents, Martin and Marianne. He attended the college in...
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NOT KILLED BY STONES
In the mid 8os a neighbor of our Abbey in CT gave us each a photo of a newly martyred priest. She and her husband were Polish- he had been a general in the Polish army in WWII. The photo was of a new...
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DOMINICAN PRINCE- MARTYR
Among the Polish 108 martyrs of WWII was a Polish prince. BLESSED JAN FRANCISZEK CZARTORYSK,was born in 1897 in in Pelkinie, near the town of Jarosław, southeastern Poland, into the noble Polish...
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ALL IN THE NAME OF CHRIST JESUS
BLESSED JOZEF CEBULA was born into a modest family in 1902, at Malnia in southern Poland. He suffered tuberculosis as a youth. After an unexpected recovery, he visited an Oblate shrine where he shared...
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SECRET ORDINATION
Many Catholic priests and seminarians were imprisoned in the Nazi prison camps, and many died of the intentionally harsh treatment they received. One of these was BLESSED KARL LEISNER, born in 1915 in...
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BOY SCOUT MARTYR
BL. STEFAN WINCENTY FRELICHOWSKIwas born in 1913 in Chełmża Poland, the third of seven children to the baker Ludwik Frelichowski and Marta Olszewska. In 1923 he began his high school studies at...
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THE "UNRULY" MARTYR
BL. KAROL HERMAN STEPIENwas born in 1910 in Lódz, Poland to Józef and Marianna Puch, poor working class farmers. Karol as a child was considered extremely intelligent but an unruly child.He early felt...
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EXAMPLE OF LOVE
After Jesus had washed their feet, He put his outer garment back on and returned to the table. “Do you understand what I have just done to you?” He asked. “I, your Lord and Teacher, have just washed...
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GOOD FRIDAY
GEZA GYORKE artist was born in 1991 in Uzhhorod, Ukraine. At the age of five he entered the Uzhhorod Children's Art School. His teacher was a famous artist Emma Levadska. He also studied at A....
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ONLY RESTING!
So they took His body down The Man who said He was the Resurrection and the Life Was lifeless on the ground now The sky was red His blood, along the blade of nightAnd as the Sabbath fell, they...
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EASTER DAWN
EASTER BLESSINGSDAWN LOOKING EAST ACROSS MONASTERY PASTURESPHOTO BY OUR NEIGHBOR NED GRIFFIN
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AWAKE-ARISE
Khrystyna Kvyk- UkraineA Take up thine eyes, which feed on earth;wake sad heart, whom sorrow ever drowns;Unfold thy forehead gather’d into frowns:Thy Savior...
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IN A GARDEN
“While it was still dark Mary Magdalene had come to watch at the tomb, and she found Jesus whom she sought standing there in the flesh. But you must know Him now according to the spirit, not according...
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DEATH AT EASTER
EX- ABBOT PRIMATE NOTKER WOLF died unexpectedly at the age of 83 3 April 2024 while traveling from Rome to his Abbey. He was a German Benedictine monk, priest, abbot, musician, and author. He was a...
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NEW BEGINNING
Kateryna Shadrina- Ukraine If you were not risen, Lord Christ, to whom would we go to discover a radiance of the face of God?If you were not risen, we would...
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MERCY FOR ALL
Jose Luis Castrillo- SpainJesus to St. Faustina (1931)On that day all the divine floodgates through which graces flow are opened. Let no soul fear to draw...
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MEMORIAL TO NEW MARTYRS
During Lent we presented many new martyrs of WWII. A special memorial chapel was created by St. John Paul II. In 1999, in preparation for the Great Jubilee of the year 2000, St. John Paul II...
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UKRAINE UPDATE- MUSIC
Mother Felicitas’ son (a tenured professor at Dartmouth and expert on Russian politics) was just here, and as usual gives us an update on the on-going crises in the Ukraine. This reminded me that in...
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