Passionist International Bulletin

26
Passionist Life - News from the Conference
The Northern European Conference
ASSUM - Poland
Symposium celebrating 80 years of Passionist
Presence in Poland
Fr. Waldemar Linke (ASSUM) sent a notice of a
recent symposium held in Warsaw, Poland, to celebrate
the 80th anniversary of the Passionist presence
in Poland. The symposium took place at the
Catholic University of Warsaw on 26 November.
The presenters and their subjects were: Fr.
Adolfo Lippi (PRAES), “The Trinitarian
Mysticism of St. Paul of the Cross”; Fr. Gregor
Lenzen (VULN, who could not be present, but
whose paper was read by Fr. Marek Miotk),
“The Vocation of St. Paul of the Cross and the
Passionist Vocation”; Fr. Tomasz Galkowski
(ASSUM), “The Efforts of St. Paul of the Cross
to Organize the Passionist Congregation”; Fr.
Damian Woystyska (ASSUM), “ The Passionist
Presence in Poland”; Fr. Jerzy Kopec
(ASSUM), “Consecrated Life in the III
Millennium”; Fr. M. Ratajczyk, “The
Treatment of Death in St. Paul of the Cross”;
and Fr. Waldemar Linke, “The Bible in St. Paul
of the Cross”.
The Nord America Conference
PAUL - Honduras
The Province of St. Paul of the Cross (PAUL) in Honduras
During the past month of January, Fr. Joseph Jones, C.P., Fr. Melvin Shorter, C.P., (Provincial Consultors),
Fr. Bill Murphy, C.P., (former missionary in Honduras), Bro. James Johnson, C.P., Dr. Eliot Casey,
Christopher Jungers, (Provincial Secretary) and John DeGraaf (Director of Development) made their annual
pastoral visitation to the Passionist ministries in and around Tegucigalpa, Honduras. They met with Hernan
Reyes Soto, the Director of St. Benedict’s Clinic in Tegucigalpa, a medical facility sponsored, in part, by the
PAUL Province. This clinic cares for approximately 200 people each day. They walk for hours to receive
exams, diagnoses, treatments and medications. A large percentage of the patients are children brought by their
mothers and grandmothers. The other large group of clients is
young women who come for pre-natal and post-natal care. Six
medical doctors, several skilled assistants and two dentists staff
the clinic.
They also visited Casa Pasionista, the Passionist AIDS Hospice
in La Venta, about a 2 hour ride from the Capital. Founded by
Fr. Rick Frechette, C.P., the comfortable home houses ten residents,
the youngest being a boy who is 14 years old. In addition
to being home for those who have nowhere else to go, there is
now an outpatient clinic available at Casa Pasionista for people
with HIV. The patients, who have homes and families, come
regularly to the facility for antiretroviral medications and treatment;
about 40 use the clinic in this way each day.