The home of Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Szczecinek will be closed. The reason is the deficiency of candidates for the order. The 4 sisters serving here will go to another facilities. Thanksgiving Mass celebrated on Sunday (23 June) by Bishop Zbigniew Zieliński in the Szczecin monastery ends symbolically 79-year-old presence of the order in this town.
Believers from Szczecinka live with the cognition that the home of the Congregation of Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary will be closed for over a year, erstwhile the decision of the authorities of the Order became a fact. And although her execution was delayed, the farewell time had just arrived. A full of emotion and tears, a thanksgiving service was celebrated on Sunday. A modest chapel in a monastery on Kościuszko Street was incapable to accommodate all, any people stood on the corridor and stairs.
It was the deficiency of candidates for the order that made the spiritual home in Szczecinek closed, and the last 4 sisters who were here will go to another facilities. The bishop lamented that we deficiency the love of Christ not only at home, among us, but besides in public life, that we are becoming “spiritually barren”, which results in so fewer vocations.
– I late had a conversation with the faithful of 1 of the parishes, who demanded that I send them a fresh parish priest, due to the fact that their presence is already aged, moving on to the chick: I asked 1 question: where should I take him? – The bishop said that there is no another diocese in Poland, in which 1 priest uses even 5-6 philial churches.
Sister Leticia Skura besides came to Szczecin, who thanked all – faithful priests – who for 79 years worked and supported the work of Niepokalanek Szczecin. Sisters will stay in Szczecink until the end of the summer, then they will leave. Their monastery is likely to be sold.
Sisters of the Immaculate were among the first pioneers of Szczecinka. They officially lived here on October 10, 1945, erstwhile the State Repatriation Office handed over to them a villa at 30 Kościuszko Street. It was compensation for the monasteries lost by the Assembly of Sisters of the Immaculates after the war in the Kresach. The first Superior of the Immaculate was the sister of Kryst Szembek, the great-grandson of Alexander Fredra. Versatilely educated in archaeology and ethnography. The nuns from the place began charitable, educational and educational work teaching not only religion. Suffice to say, Sister Krysta taught past to even militias and ures on courses for these formations. They ran a kindergarten.
Soon, however, the Communist authorities banned it from their sisters, and spiritual teachings were expelled from schools. The immaculate women conducted catechesis in their, always open home to all and in the parish of Mariacka in Szczecinek. besides in private houses and parishes close Szczecinka.
After the restoration of the doctrine of religion, the Niepokalankas returned to schools. They run an Oasis for children and young people and Adult Tabor, as well as a candlelight and charity activities within the Caritas framework. During 79 years of the Szczecin monastery, 103 sisters passed through its walls, which was chaired by 18 superiors – presently the sister of Maciej.
The Assembly of Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary – due to the fact that that is the full name – was founded in 1857 in Rome and moved to Poland a fewer years later. The parent home of the Order was Jazłowiec in present Ukraine, present the general home is in Szymanów close Niepokalanów.
Source: KAI/Oprac.MA
