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.

On November 11-13, 2016 we hosted at the Museum and Archives a group of our Sisters from the Przemysl Province. It was a formation meeting for the Sisters before Tertianship. Sisters shared together the word of Bl. Mary Angela after a previous introduction on Lectio Epistuli; they participated in the Eucharistic Liturgy at the altar with Mother?s relics; they experienced a specific Transitus exactly in Mother?s cell where in 1899 she passed to eternity. The Sisters also had the opportunity to listen to presentation on. Mother Angela?s Genealogy, they toured the Museum and “touched” the treasures kept in the Archives.

The Sisters returned to their communities with joyful and grateful hearts.

On November 6 there was the first, after the summer break, encounter with Blessed Mary Angela. Today we pondered over Mother Angela?s letters to Sister Mary Colette Sliwinska. In passages that we read one could see Mother?s exceptionally heartfelt relationship with Sister Colette. Matters considered in the letters are very personal and touching her path to holiness.

In the evening, on October 9, already as every year, we took part in Transitus, that means a commemoration of Bl. Mary Angela?s passing from this earth to heaven. Several of the Sisters came from the nearby local houses and from the Provincialate so to be united together in prayer.

During the ceremony, each Sister received a holy card with a “testament” of Bl. Mary Angela.

From September 30 to October 2 a meeting was held for the Nurse Sisters from three Polish Provinces. From each province arrived three Sisters, and from the Province of Krakow, taking advantage from the vicinity of the place, came additional Sisters according to their possibilities of the apostolate.

The Coordinators of the Cult of Blessed Mary Angela from America, Kenya and Poland met in Krakow on September 6 ? 9, 2016. The enriching program of the meeting, which took place mostly in the provincial house at Smolensk Street, foresaw a presentation and a tour of the Museum and Archives.

Already on the next day after the conclusion of the World Youth Day the Sisters participating in the Tertianship, directed by SM Franciszka Stepniewska gathered in our Museum and Archives. As a part of the meeting was the presentation on the Canonization Process of our Blessed Mary Angela, tour of the Museum and meeting in the Archives to “touch” the original memorabilia of our Blessed Foundress.

For over two weeks the entire Poland, and Krakow in particular, was experiencing a special time of immediate preparation for World Youth Day. The streets of Krakow slowly were filling by the young crowd with colorful backpacks and speaking in many different languages. Also in our Museum and Archives it became colorful and one could hear different languages. On Tuesday, 26 July, 2016 the Felician Sisters from North America came to us with a group of young people from Felician Schools. All of them could tour the Museum, but due to limited space they had to do this in smaller groups.

During the last week of July, when the entire Poland and Krakow were filled with joyful youth from all corners of the world, our Museum and Archives has become a center for the Felician Youth from the Polish Provinces. For this special time to the Museum came Postulants, Novices, Sisters in temporary profession and young sisters in perpetual profession from Warsaw and Przemysl. Full of enthusiasm they participated in catechesis, concerts and, of course, in all the meetings with Pope Francis.