Realizacja dobra wspólnego w działalności księży werbistów na Wschodniej Syberii i Dalekim Wschodzie

The proposed topic: Implementation of the common good in the activities of the Divine Word Missionaries in the Eastern Siberia requires a few comments. Firstly, The Eastern Siberia and the Far East – in the article is understood as the eastern part of Russia – from the Krasnoyarsk Territory to the island of Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands in the east, and from the north - from the Arctic Ocean to the borders with Mongolia and China in the south . The Eastern Siberia joins the Russian Far East – that is, countries and districts situated in the far east. The whole territory coincides with the Diocese of St. Joseph. Secondly, the common good. The common good is primarily the development and improvement of man in his personal life. The common good is, as written Fr. M. A. Krąpiec, real good of a man existing in the form of specific perfection of human persons. The good is a goal and principle of social order, it allows the improvement of a specific human person without harm to others and for the benefit of all. Thirdly, Divine Word Missionaries. It is a missionary congregation, founded in 1875 in Steylu, in what is now the Netherlands, by St. Arnold Janssen. Divine Word Missionaries began their work in Belarus, and after the ordination of Fr. Jerzy Mazur SVD (31 May 1989) as bishop, they started to work in Irkutsk and Blagoveshchensk on the Russian-Chinese border, and most recently in Chita beyond Baikal. The origins of the presence of the Divine Word Missionaries are associated with the activities of Bishop Jerzy Mazur SVD, and Fr. Joseph Węcławik SVD in Irkutsk. From the very beginning, implementation of common good in the activities of the Divine Word Missionaries was associated with the creation of structures of the local Catholic Church (which, despite the difficult times, continue to operate today) and the renewal of both the community of the Church (invisible common good), and its visible common good – churches, chapels and all forms of activity. The purpose of this activity is to multiply the common good so that man could reach his perfection as a Christian. Expulsion of bishop Jerzy Mazur SVD by the Russian authorities and the return of Fr. Joseph Węcławik SVD to Poland ended the first period of the Divine Word Missionaries’ activity. The second period lasts to this very day and the Divine Word Missionaries have been very active in three places: in Irkutsk, Blagoveshchensk, and the Chita. They cooperate with other congregations and diocesan priests in