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