Formation
Underway at Svatá Hora, the Month of Preparation for Perpetual Vows
On Sunday, 9 July, the month of preparation for perpetual vows for the Conference of Europe began in our community of Svatá Hora. Five students are participating in this month of preparation and spiritual renewal: Pavel Hudousek (Province of Bratislava-Prague), Fabrizio Podda and Gianluigi Colucci (Province of Rome), Bohdan Krytovych and Bohdan Khrushch (Province of Lviv). The Course is under the guidance of Br Lukáš Michalovič (Province of Bratislava-Prague). During this time of spiritual renewal, there are daily lectures given by various...
read moreMeeting of the Redemptorist Missionaries of Southern Europe
From 25 to 27 April 2023, the Redemptorist missionaries of the five Units (Lisbon, Madrid, France, Rome and Naples) were meeting in Rome. There were 7-8 missionaries from each of the five units, together with the Vicar General Fr. Francesco Stanula and the coordinator of the Conference of Redemptorists of Europe, Fr. Johannes Romelt. The meeting was organised to offer an opportunity to get closer and know each other better because these five Provinces will form the new Province of Southern Europe from 1 January 2024. In addition to this, by...
read moreGeneral Government meets English speaking Major Superiors
About 30 Major Superior of our Congregation have been participating in a one-week formation meeting organized by General Government in Rome. It started last Monday, March 6, with the Eucharist in the Shrine of Our Mother of Perpetual Help and has continued through the next four days, when the participants were presented with several topics connected with their leadership ministry for their Units and collaboration with the General Government. Fr. General Rogerio Gomes and the General Consultors presented a vision for the next sexennium and...
read moreOnline Meeting of the General Council and the Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian-speaking Major Superiors
The Superior General, Fr Rogério Gomes, and the General Council had an online meeting with the Major Superiors of the Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian-speaking Major Superiors from the Units of Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and Madagascar, and Europe. The online meeting was for 4 hours each day for 4 days (20th – 21st and 23rd – 24th February). The Meeting was well attended and the participation was very good despite the air of carnival in Latin America. Fr Rogério presented the Sexennial Plan of action of the General Council and...
read moreThe interprovincial month of spiritual renewal started in Kraków
The Eucharist celebrated on July 05 in the chapel at the redemptorist religious house in Krakow, Poland, was the first point of the four-week-long spiritual preparation in the Conference of Europe that seven brothers started before their final profession in August. The group consists of five brothers from the Province of Warsaw and two from the Province of Bratislava-Prague. They will spend the first week in Kraków and the other three weeks in Tuchów. Fr. Adam Kośla, C.Ss.R., the prefect of the studentate in Poland, is to facilitate the...
read moreChristmas 2021 – Letter of the Coordinator (20.12.2021)
“Because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the rising sun will come to us from heaven to shine on those living in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the path of peace.” Luke 1, 78.79 . Dear confreres, Dear sisters, Dear partners in mission, There are situations and times when we are particularly attentive and receptive to the promise of Christmas. In the Gospel according to Luke, for example, this is captured in the words of the Benedictus, the words of the hymn in which the surprising, human and world-changing...
read morePreparation for final vows 2021 started
Monday, 5 July, Fr. Janusz Sok C.Ss.R., Provincial of the Warsaw Province of the Redemptorists, presided at the Holy Mass to inaugurate the month of preparation for final vows. Its first two weeks will occur in Lubaszowa, and the second part will be continued in Krakow. Among the participants are the seven seminarians who last June finished their fifth year of studies at the Redemptorist Theological Seminary in Tuchow. During the month of spiritual renewal, we also welcome confreres from Ukraine: two seminarians. The Month of Renewal is a...
read moreA year in the company of St Clement
Our Redemptorist Conference of Europe Studentate in Rome paid homage to St. Clement with various pilgrimages, conferences and readings in this jubilee year on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of his death. On 14 and 15 February 2020, before the arrival of the pandemic in Italy, we went on pilgrimage to Frosinone to visit the church and community where St. Clement made his novitiate and completed his studies in preparation for the priesthood. According to tradition in the church of Our Lady of Grace, Clement celebrated his first Mass...
read moreChristmas 2020 – Letter of the Coordinator (22.12.2020)
„The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned.” Isaiah 9: 1 . Dear confreres, Dear partners in mission, The year 2020 put us all in a completely unexpected situation. The Covid-19 pandemic has given us experiences that were surprising and completely new. Such a massive threat to the health of all people from an infectious disease is unexpected in our societies. We in Europe have seen from a distance that there have been epidemics on other continents. But it...
read moreThe experience of an international novitiate
In Ciorani, Italy, the motherhouse of the Congregation, almost three months have now passed since the beginning of Novitiate 2020/2021. The group of novices is quite heterogeneous; in fact, it is composed of Rocco and Giandomenico (from the Province of Naples), Davide (Rome), Daniel (Madrid), Jan and Samuel (Bratislava-Prague). The Master is Fr. Maurizio Iannuario. On the morning of September 1st, there was the arrival and reception of the novices, while in the evening there was the Solemn Eucharistic Celebration presided over by the Vicar...
read more