Christmas is an occasion for family gatherings and celebrating together. But it's also an opportunity for pastoral fraternal meetings. Polish pastoral ministers, priests and sisters met, as they do every year, at a Christmas luncheon organized by the Conference of Polish Priests for Eastern Canada and its president Fr. Janusz Blazejak OMI. It was an opportunity to exchange Christmas wishes and share our experiences of ministry in Polish parishes. More than fifty guests arrived from various religious orders and dioceses, mainly from Ontario, where the largest Polish community in Canada lives. The guests of honor were Bishop Douglas Crosby of Hamilton and Bishop Ivan Camilleri of Toronto.

(TJ/DJ/ photos: Fr. Janusz Błażejak OMI)