The Visit of Rt. Rev. Superior General of the Order of St. Paul the First Hermit - Fr. Izydor Matuszewski & his Secretary Rev. Fr. Jan Berny to Centocow Mission

On 28th of February 2006 arrived Rt. Rev. Superior General of Pauline Fathers Order for the official visit of Pauline Community and the Parish of Centocow.

On the1st of March -  Rt. Rev. Fr. General together with Fr. Jan Berny and Fr. Stanley Dziuba celebrated with local Community the Holy Mass of Ash Wednesday.

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On the 1st Sunday of Lent Rt. Rev. Fr. General celebrated the Holy Mass with Centocow Community during which there was the Rite of Election of those who will be baptised on the Holy Saturday as well those who will be confirmed in May.

Fr. General also presented to the community the example of relief - picture of stations of the cross that he funded for our Centocow Mission that will be built soon.
He also blessed the pieta. After Holy Mass the people went outside of the church to pray Stations of the Cross walking about 1.5km on the Mission grounds the way the future Stations of the Cross will be built.

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On 12th of March Rt. Rev. Fr. General together with Fr. Jan Berny and Fr. Ignatius Stankiewicz celebrated the Holy Mass at Sibizane Church that is dedicated to Divine Mercy. After the Holy Mass was benediction the chaplet to Divine Mercy was prayed by all community. He was welcomed by the local community and the local leader offered to Fr. General the sheep.

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As part of his visitation Rev. Fr. General together with Fr. John Berny, his secretary, Br Janusz Herdus, Fr. Stanley Dziuba and Mr. Andrew Adamus went through different places of the large area of the mission to see the work and the needs of the Mission.

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There was also the time of relax and visting different beautiful places of South Africa
The visit to Durban uShaka Marine World and to the Valley of Thousand Hills

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There was also driving to top of the Drakensburg Mountains - Sani Pass in LeSotho Kingdom - to 2873m

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But the time of the visit came to the end. On 19th of March there was a Holy Mass with the whole Centocow Community and farewell in the hall.

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