Letters
Letter from Coordinator 13 Christmas 2013
Christmas, 2013 Dear Confreres, Dear Lay Missionaries of the Most Holy Redeemer, Dear Partners in Mission, May a hope, nurtured by the gift of God’s birth, help us discern the beauty of God’s presence among us and give us strength and courage to proclaim his abundant Redemption. Fr. Jacek Zdrzałek CSsR Letter from the Coordinator, No 13 (2013) Ecclesiastes says: “There is a season for everything, a time for every occupation under heaven: A time for giving birth,(…)” (3,1-2). During this time of the birth of Jesus – our Conference is...
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Dear Confreres, Dear Lay Missionaries of the Most Holy Redeemer, Dear Partners in Mission, The Secretariat for Evangelisation in CRE is searching for the new avenues of missionary activities in Europe. On the one hand it wants to offer completely new projects, and on the other, it is using experiences from the past. In this letter I describe two events which took place during vacation time. One of them was completely new: the activity of the interprovincial community in connection with St. James’s Way to Santiago de Compostela, and the...
read moreLetter from Coordinator 11 2013
Dear Confreres Dear Lay Missionaries of the Most Holy Redeemer Dear Partners in Mission Let me dedicate this letter to looking into the future of our Conference. The first of the seven guiding principles of the process of re‐structuring in our Congregation is: “Restructuring is for Mission”. It makes no sense to change or to restructure the Congregation, if we do not desire to give our lives in a better and more complete way to our Redeemer, through the explicit proclamation of the Word of God. “Fidelity to our mission is the reason for and...
read moreLetter from Coordinator 10 2013
Dear Confreres, Dear Lay Missionaries of the Most Holy Redeemer, Dear Partners in Mission, There were many European meetings in our Conference during this vacation time. This is the goal of this second stage of our work in our CRE. We are trying to be together in order to meet each other, to learn how to cooperate more effectively for our common mission at diverse levels and to adjust to the different cultures by recognising the variety and richness of so many Units in CRE. Based on this experience, we wish to create new common apostolic...
read moreLetter from Coordinator 09 2012
EASTER 2013 Dear Partners in Mission Rejoice and be glad… Christ is risen! He who endured the cross and grave has conquered death for us to save! Alleluia! May the resurrection of our Lord, Jesus Christ, fill you with joy this Easter season and always! Fr. Jacek Zdrzalek CSsR Coordinator of CRE  Dear Confreres, Dear Lay Missionaries of the Most Holy Redeemer, Letter from the Coordinator, No 9 (2013) HABEMUS PAPAM FRANCISCUM With joy and hope in our hearts, we are praying for the new Pope. The time is coming when we can start the...
read moreLetter from Coordinator 08 2012
Dear Lay Missionaries of the Most Holy Redeemer, Dear Partners in Mission, May your Christmas be filled with the real presence of the new-born Child, and with joy and happiness. Best wishes for now and the coming year. Fr. Jacek Zdrzałek CSsR Coordinator of CRE Letter from the Coordinator, No 8 (2012) The Mid-sexennial Meeting and the Fifth Assembly of CRE were the most important meetings for us during the last months in our Conference. These meetings took place in Kraków in Poland from 29th of October to 6th of November. The purpose of the...
read moreLetter from Coordinator 07 2012
Dear Confreres, Letter from the Coordinator, No 7 (2012) Dear Lay Missionaries of the Most Holy Redeemer, Dear Partners in Mission, Greetings to all, and to the members of your Units. I hope that the vacation time gave you the possibility of receiving new strength, hope and vision for our pastoral work. We shall celebrate two very important meetings of our Conference this autumn. The Mid- Sexennial Meeting will be held from 28th of October to 3rd of November in Kraków, Poland and immediately after this meeting we will take part in the “Fifth...
read moreLetter from Coordinator 6a Easter 2012
We ourselves announce to you THE GOOD NEWS that what God promised our fathers he has fulfilled for us, their children, in raising up Jesus (Acts 13: 32-33) Dear Confreres, Lay Missionaries of the Most Holy Redeemer & Partners in Mission, Every day each one of us receives thousands of pieces of news from many sources all around the world. One thing these messages have in common is that each one wants to convince us that its news is the most important, and that we will find something special. But we know the greatest news in world history...
read moreLetter from Coordinator 06 2011
Dear Confreres, Dear Lay Missionaries of the Most Holy Redeemer, Dear Partners in Mission, Greetings to all of you and to the members of your Units. I hope that this time of Lent helps all of us to prepare for the greatest mysteries of our faith. May every day of this special season help us to recognize the precious gift of our Redemption. Some news: First of all I would like to share with you the very good news we received at the beginning of this year: the Rescript from Fr. General in which he accepted our Apostolic Priorities. It seems...
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Dear Confreres, Letter from Coordinator, No 5 (2011) On the occasion of the Christmas letter, I would like to inform you about some of the issues of our Conference which have occurred since our last Assembly in Dublin (24th – 27th of October, 2011). The Council of our Conference met in Rome from 13th to 15th of December. Fr. Pedro Lopez, Fr. Johannes Römelt, Fr. Zdzisław Stanula, Secretary of the Conference and I, were trying to plan our work for 2012 and to deal with the most urgent issues. Most of the time of our Consulta was devoted to...
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