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Dec. 16 Blessed Honoratus Kozminski. breski1 | December 16, 2007 He was born in Biala Podlaska (Siedlce, Poland) and studied architecture at the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw. When Wenceslaus was almost …More
Dec. 16 Blessed Honoratus Kozminski.

breski1 | December 16, 2007 He was born in Biala Podlaska (Siedlce, Poland) and studied architecture at the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw. When Wenceslaus was almost sixteen, his father died. Suspected of participating in a rebellious conspiracy, the young man was imprisoned from April 1846 until the following March. In 1848 he received the Capuchin habit and a new name. Four years later he was ordained. In 1855 he helped Blessed Mary Angela Truszkowska establish the Felician Sisters.
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EWTN PROGRAMMING HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK
Christmas with the Nuns
Join the Poor Clare Nuns of Perpetual Adoration from Our Lady of the Angels Monastery in Hanceville, Alabama for special Christmas music and devotions.
Sat. December 18 at 3 AM ET
Wed. December 22 at 9 AM ET
Sun. December 26 at 6 AM ET

G.K. Chesterton's The Surprise
EWTN's original production of the G.K. Chesterton play, "The Surprise …More
EWTN PROGRAMMING HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK

Christmas with the Nuns
Join the Poor Clare Nuns of Perpetual Adoration from Our Lady of the Angels Monastery in Hanceville, Alabama for special Christmas music and devotions.
Sat. December 18 at 3 AM ET
Wed. December 22 at 9 AM ET
Sun. December 26 at 6 AM ET


G.K. Chesterton's The Surprise
EWTN's original production of the G.K. Chesterton play, "The Surprise:" A fascinating story spun around a traveling playwright who creates a set of puppets to perform one of his plays.
Sun. December 19 at 8 PM ET
Fri. December 24 at 1 PM ET
Mon. December 27 at 5 PM ET


The Carlow Choir Presents: Joy to the World
Enjoy the sounds of the season in this delightful Christmas program from The Carlow Choir. The concert features holiday favorites that are sure to delight the whole family.
Tue. December 21 at 5:30 PM ET
Thu. December 23 at 9 PM ET
Sun. December 26 at 5 AM ET


Theater of the Word: A Morning Star Christmas
Several one-act performances in the Christmas spirit presented by the Morning Star Players and other actors from the Theater of the Word.
Tue. December 21 at 4 AM ET
Wed. December 22 at 11 PM ET
Fri. December 31 at 1:30 PM ET

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THURSDAY - DECEMBER 16, 8 PM ET / 5 PM PT
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THURSDAY - DECEMBER 16, 10 PM ET / 7 PM PT
LIFE ON THE ROCK: FR. MARK & DOUG BARRY - Patrick Madrid and students from Envoy Institute, a camp that teaches young people catechesis.

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🙏 Thanks, Gregory! The images remind me of our pilgrimage to the Holy Land--hope to go again, next year, Dios mediante.
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🙏 @Gregory and TES: If you want to pray the Rosary together, start moving over to www.ewtn.com. There, look for live TV, and click on programming for English International. Father Mitch should appear on screen, praying the rosary.
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He was born in Biala Podlaska (Siedlce, Poland) and studied architecture at the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw. When Wenceslaus was almost sixteen, his father died. Suspected of participating in a rebellious conspiracy, the young man was imprisoned from April 1846 until the following March. In 1848 he received the Capuchin habit and a new name. Four years later he was ordained. In 1855 he helped …More
He was born in Biala Podlaska (Siedlce, Poland) and studied architecture at the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw. When Wenceslaus was almost sixteen, his father died. Suspected of participating in a rebellious conspiracy, the young man was imprisoned from April 1846 until the following March. In 1848 he received the Capuchin habit and a new name. Four years later he was ordained. In 1855 he helped Blessed Mary Angela Truszkowska establish the Felician Sisters.
Honoratus served as guardian in a Warsaw friary already in 1860. He dedicated his energies to preaching, to giving spiritual direction and to hearing confessions. He worked tirelessly with the Secular Franciscan Order.
The failed 1864 revolt against Czar Alexander III led to the suppression of all religious Orders in Poland. The Capuchins were expelled from Warsaw and forced to live in Zakroczym, where Honoratus continued his ministry and began founding twenty-six male and female religious congregations, whose members took vows but wore no religious habit and did not live in community. They operated much as today’s secular institutes do. Seventeen of these groups still exist as religious congregations.
The writings of Father Honoratus are extensive: forty-two volumes of sermons, 21 volumes of letters as well as 52 printed works on ascetical theology, Marian devotion, historical writings, pastoral writings — not counting his many writings for the religious congregations he founded.
In 1906, various bishops sought the reorganization of these groups under their authority; Honoratus defended their independence but was removed from their direction in 1908. He promptly urged the members of these congregations to obey the Church’s decisions regarding their future.
He “always walked with God,” said a contemporary. In 1895 he was appointed Commissary General of the Capuchins in Poland. Three years before he had come to Nowe Miasto, where he died and was buried. He was beatified in 1988.

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The story is told that Francis and Brother Leo, his secretary, were once on a journey and Francis volunteered to tell Leo what perfect joy is. Francis began by saying what it was not: news that the kings of France, England, as well as all the world’s bishops and many university professors had decided to become friars, news that the friars had received the gift of tongues and miracles, or news that the friars had converted all the non-Christians in the world. No, perfect joy for them would be to arrive cold and hungry at St. Mary of the Angels, Francis’ headquarters outside Assisi, and be mistaken by the porter for thieves and beaten by the same porter and driven back into the cold and rain. Francis said that if, for the love of God, he and Leo could endure such treatment without losing their patience and charity, that would be perfect joy (cited in Regis Armstrong, O.F.M. Cap., and Ignatius Brady, O.F.M., Francis and Clare: The Complete Works
, pages 165-166). Honoratus worked very zealously to serve the Church, partly by establishing a great variety of religious congregations adapted to the special circumstances of Poland in those years. He could have retreated into bitterness and self-pity when the direction of those congregations was taken away from him; that was certainly a “perfect joy” experience. He urged the members of these groups to obey willingly and gladly, placing their gifts at the service of the Good News of Jesus Christ.

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When the Church removed Honoratus from the direction of his religious congregations and changed their character, he wrote: “Christ’s Vicar himself has revealed God’s will to us, and I carry out this order with greatest faith.... Remember, dear brothers and sisters, that you are being given the opportunity to show heroic obedience to the holy Church.”
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