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Module 5C2: Raphael Kalinowski

 

 

This course is part of the Distance Learning Website of

the Carmelite Institute of Britain and Ireland

 

The module contains five units, which focus on the following topics:  

  1. Geographical, historical and cultural background of Raphael Kalinowski’s early years.
  2. Raphael Kalinowski’s involvement in a military uprising and his spiritual conversion.
  3. Raphael Kalinowski’s understanding of the discipleship of Christ and spiritual growth in his Siberian exile.
  4. Raphael Kalinowski’s life in the Carmelite Order.
  5. Raphael Kalinowski’s spiritual legacy.

Recommended Reading 

DAVIES Norman, Europe: A History. London: Pimlico, 1997, pp. 659-664. 

DAVIES Norman, Heart of Europe: A Short History of Poland. Oxford: Oxford University Press,1987), pp. 348-353. 

GIL, Czeslaw, OCD, Father Raphael Kalinowski. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Karmelitów Bosych, 1979. 

MATTHEW, Monk, Saint of the Salt Mines. Suffolk, Carmelite Book Service, 1986.  

PRASKIEWICZ, Szczepan, OCD, Saint Raphael Kalinowski: An Introduction to His Life and Spirituality, trans. Th. Coonan, M. Griffin, L. Sullivan. Washington, D.C.: ICS Publications, 1998. 

WACH Albert, STANKIEWICZ Marian, Letter of the Provincials of the Polish Provinces of  the Teresian Carmel on the occasion of the Centenary of the Death of Saint Raphael Kalinowski (1907-2007), www.karmel.pl 

WANDYCZ Piotr, The Lands of Partitioned Poland, 1795-1918. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1975.  

 

Course Tutor: Robert Opala OCD

 

The course is divided into 5 units of input and, at the end, you may complete a Questionnaire, write a Learning Journal, or write an Essay.

 

Once posted, each unit will be available until the end of the module. The dates on which each of the units, and the other material for this course, will be available are listed below:

 

Item Available from: Available until: Questionnaire or Learning Journal or Essay  (e-mail) to be returned by:
Unit 1 Monday week 1 or 8 Monday week 7 or 13 -
Unit 2 Monday week 2 or 9 Monday week 7 or 13 -
Unit 3 Monday week 3 or 10 Monday week 7 or 13 -
Unit 4 Monday week 4 or 11 Monday week 7 0r 13 -
Unit 5 Monday week 5 of 12 Monday week 7 or 13 -
Questionnaire Monday week 5 or 12 Monday week 7 or 13

Monday week 7 or 13

Learning Journal Monday week 5 or 12 Monday week 7 of 13

Monday week 7 or 13

Essay titles Monday week 5 or 12 Monday week 7 or 13 Monday week 7 or 13

 

 

From the date corresponding to the relevant Monday (see main web page of www.cibi.ie), you can click on the relevant unit to access it. Each module includes links to other internet sites of various kinds related to the material being covered.

    Once you have successfully accessed and studied the material in each module and received the Essay titles and the questionnaire, pleace complete either the Questionnaire, write a Learning Journal, or write an Essay based on one of the Essay titles given, and return it to to the course administrator: admin@cibi.ie

 

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