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JASNA GóRA MONASTERY
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JASNA GORA MONASTERY & SHRINE
Jasna Gora Monastery in Czestochowa, Poland, is the largest Pauline monastery in the world. Currently there are over a hundred monks living there. It is also the center of the Order, due to the fact that it is the General House for our entire community. This is where Father General and General Council reside. Together they make the most important decisions concerning the life and functioning of the entire Pauline community in the world. Every six years a General Chapter, which exercises the highest authority in the Order and elects the General Superior, also takes place at this monastery.
Jasna Gora Monastery is the greatest treasure of the Order primarily because of the presence of Mary in the miraculous icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa. Millions of pilgrims visit the Shrine and Monastery in Czestochowa annually to ask for Mary’s intercession and to receive the sacraments administered by our fathers. The Pauline Fathers and Brothers have been the guardians of this holy place since its inception. The role of the Jasna Gora Shrine and Monastery has been very influential to the charism of the Order. St. John Paul II called it the “Jasna Gora Charism” when he visited the Shrine as a Pope numerous times.
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JASNA GÓRA - CZĘSTOCHOWA - POLAND
ul. O. A. Kordeckiego 2 -
42-225 CZĘSTOCHOWA
POLAND
OUR
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our lady
”You are particularly called here to love, to the great love of souls. This love has
its source in the great love of God. You are the stewards of this love which the
Eternal God at this place, especially at this place, wishes to shower upon us
through the Mother of His Son. . . . In this lies your Pauline, religious perfection
and your mission”
(St. John Paul II to the Pauline Fathers and Brothers, Jasna Gora
during a papal visit on June 19, 1983).
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GENERAL COUNCIL
Jasna Gora Monastery is the General House of the Order, which means that it is a place of residence for Father General and his General Council. Father General is the highest superior of the Order. His authority “extends to the entire Order as well as to each of its parts: provinces, monasteries, and individuals. His authority includes that of commanding and leading the entire Order in matters both spiritual and material” (The Constitutions of the Order of St. Paul the First Hermit, Article 116).
The responsibility of the members of the General Council, also called Definitors, is to “cooperate with the Father General in his governing of the Order, to assist him with their counsel and through their evangelical way of life” (The Constitutions of the Order of St. Paul the First Hermit, Article 129).
Besides the Superior General and Definitors, the General House is also a residence for the Administrator General and the Secretary General of the Order. The Procurator General of the Order resides in Rome and is responsible to attend all the needs of the Order at the Vatican.
Fr. Arnold Chrapkowski
The General of the Order
JASNA GORA MONASTERY CZESTOCHOWA, POLAND
Fr. Michał Lukoszek
The Vicar General of the Order
1st Definitor
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CZESTOCHOWA, POLAND
FR. Ryszard Dec
2nd Definitor
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CZESTOCHOWA, POLAND
FR. Piotr Łoza
3rd Definitor
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CZESTOCHOWA, POLAND
Br. Bernard Kluczkowski
4rd Definitor
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CZESTOCHOWA, POLAND
FR. Bazyli Degórski
The Procurator-General of the Order at the Holy See
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FR. Marek Moga
The Administrator General of the Order
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CZESTOCHOWA, POLAND
Br. Bartłomiej Maziarka
The Secretary General of the Order
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CZESTOCHOWA, POLAND
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