Mission Sunday celebrated in Lent is an opportunity to look at the achievements of the Missions Office, which operates in PME under the leadership of Father Czesław Tomaszewski.

It began in the autumn of 2008. The beginnings were not easy. On the list of missions’ benefactors there were 90 names, in the cash register there was a little more than 20 thousand zlotys.

Fr Czesław started to work creatively for the mission. He began to publish a missionary bulletin, which is published twice a year in several thousand copies. He publishes an annual missionary calendar with up to 15 thousand copies. They are distributed free of charge for a 'voluntary donation'. It runs four mission pages on the Internet. He has been involved in many Missionary Actions in parishes, not only in Jesuit ones. He led missionary catechesis, published 2 books related to missions, a medal on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the death of Blessed John Beyzym, organized missionary competitions about our holy missionary for school-age children. In addition, he conducts daily correspondence often related to the proposed missionary actions.

What is the effect of these struggles?

Today there are on the list 1750 active donors. In past years we managed to raise almost 6 mln zlotys for different mission projects. The amount raised increased from year to year. In 2018 we managed to raise almost a million zlotys transferred to Zambia-Malawi, Madagascar, Ukraine and many other countries.