My Second Christmas in Canada is a Christmas Gift!

“I think that only the one option and the best option for you is to minister in Canada”. I remember this sentence very well, when I heard it for the first time. It was during one of those beautiful and sunny days of April in Vienna that changed my life like it was yesterday. I mean, how could I forget it? I remember different feelings (that were) present in my mind that red-letter day. When I was picking up my phone to call the Provincial of the Polish Province, I felt little bit afraid but most of all excited. My dream to work somewhere in English speaking country had been growing for a long time. I was praying and asking God whether it was His will for my priestly life. I spoke to many …show more content…
Living in our religious house in Louis Hall I had an amazing opportunity from the OK Province not only to learn the language, but most of all to life with others CRs and learn from them what it means to be a resurrectinist in Canada. There I have learned that a resurrectionist is a man full of joy like Fr. Ray, like Fr. Jim a resurrectionist preach in a very vivid way, really loves our community and spirituality like Fr. Charlie, is a man of vision and knowledge like Fr. Sudie and really is devoted to our Congregation and to the poor like Fr. Murray. I find that it was the most important lesson that I had at the begging of my life in Canada. And this is the experience with which I landed in full time ministry at St. Mary’s, Kitchener, as a associate pastor with Fr. George …show more content…
And one day, some great opportunity stands before you and calls you to stand up for some great principle, some great issue, some great cause. And you refuse to do it because you are afraid…. You are afraid that you will be criticized; so you refuse to take the stand. Well, you may go on and live until you are 90, but you’re just as dead at 38 as you would be at 90. And the cessation of breathing in your life is but the belated announcement of an earlier death of the spirit.” I’m only (or already) 33 years but I feel really deeply in my heart that I didn’t refuse my opportunity from God and from the community and I’m here, in Canada, responding to this chance. Of course, by coming to Canada, my dreams didn’t finish, I still have many dreams, especially when it comes to our congregation, the dreams about young people, like br. Raphael Ma, who wants or will want to continues the mission and charism of Bogdan Janski as a resurectionist. People, who want to serve as signs of the transforming power of Jesus’ love and be instruments for the renewal of society, bringing life and love to all people and leading them to the