On Saturday, October 21, 2017, Sister Mary Scholastyka and a group of girls, the Girls Liturgical Servants, from Grybow, visited our Museum and Archives. The girls came to Cracow to honor the relics of Blessed Mary Angela Truszkowska and to visit the Museum and Archives dedicated to her.
On September 28 to 30, the second meeting for the Sisters serving in the internal works of the Congregation took place at the Museum and Archives. From each Province came three Sisters. Among them were Sisters working in the kitchen, at the main entrance, in the library, serving the sick children, and those serving the Sisters in sewing.
Cracow has hold a tradition for so many years to organize the Cracovia Sacra Night, when church and monastic exhibitions and monuments are widely available, as well as various artistic events of sacred music are organized.
On February 5, 2017, we met again in the Museum and Archives, to ponder over the writings of our Blessed Foundress and Blessed Father Honorat, the spiritual father of the Congregation. The texts which have been proposed to reflect upon, both from the writings of Mother Angela as those from Father Honorat?s letters to the Felician Sisters, in a very special way drew our attention to the spirituality of atonement in our Congregation. The Sisters shared their experience of different religious practices, which helped them to grow in this spirituality. Sisters highlighted anew the importance and richness of the Adorations of atonement. This is what Blessed Father Honorat wrote in 1888 in the Introduction to the Book of Life:
On January 25 to 27 we hosted in our house the Sisters before Tertianship from Our Lady of Czestochowa Province in Przemysl. These were the renewal days focused on gratitude for the life and charism of our Blessed Foundress. The Sisters prayed and shared the content of Mother?s letters, they experienced her vicinity during the Eucharistic Liturgy celebrated at her relics. They participated in the Transitus service which took place in Mother Angela?s room, exactly the same, in which she passed from this earth to heaven. Some of the Sisters for the first time had the opportunity to visit our first Generalate at Batory Street in Krakow. In short, the Sisters departed after the meeting enriched and strengthened by the grace of the Lord to further and more zealously minister wherever the Lord sends them.
On January 23, 2017 the Postulants from Our Lady Queen of Poland Province in Warsaw visited our house. They participated in the introduction to Lectio Epistuli, that is the way of pondering over the writings of our Patron Saints, they reflected upon and shared what they have discovered in the wealth of Blessed Father Honorat Kozminski?s letters written to the Felician Sisters. The letters written by Fr. Honorat to the Felician Felician have shown to the first Felicians, and continue to show to the current generation, the ideals of Felician way of life according to the founding intention of Blessed Foundress, Mary Angela Truszkowska. May this meeting deepen not only the knowledge of the spirituality of the Congregation, but also the fervor in the everyday living the spirituality.
On January 8, 2017 for the first time this year we met with the Sisters to draw from the wealth of our Blessed Mary Angela?s writings. Since we commemorate this year the Year of the Blessed Father Honorat, also during our meetings we ponder over the texts which he himself has written once to the Felician Sisters.
On December 11, 2016, in the afternoon some of the Sisters came to the Museum and Archives for the next Encounter with Blessed Mary Angela. Since in few days we will celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Blessed Father Honorat Kozminski?s death, today?s meeting and the next few meetings, will be dedicated to his person. Today we pondered on some excerpts from the letters of Mother Mary Angela to the Sisters in which she wrote about Father Honorat, as well as from the letters addressed to him.
On December 6, 2016, on ten days before the 100th Anniversary of the passing to heaven of Blessed Father Honorat Kozminski, the spiritual director of the Felician Congregation in its beginnings, the Museum and Archives opened a special exhibition devoted to both his life and work, as well as the role he played in our Congregation.
May this exhibition be an expression of our gratitude for his great contribution to the formation of our first Sisters, for putting the spiritual foundation of our Congregation.