On the ways of faith
ENTERING THE NIGHT FOR HELP AND POWER
S. KATARZYNA MURAWSKA FMM
Forced to beg, working in slavery conditions, sexually abused, sold to the army and for matrimonial purposes, deprived of body organs – they belong to 27 million women, men and children on whose behalf ‘God asks: where is my slave brother and sister? We cannot pretend that we know nothing (…). »
EVERYONE HAS GOT THEIR OWN PERSONALITY
The time of fulfilling duties by cardinal Stanisław Dziwisz holding the post as the metropolitan of Cracow is ending. Maria Fortuna-Sudor talks with the spiritual son of John Paul II about his ministry to Church, Poland and Cracow on this post. »
MONIKA HYLA
In relation to the 100th death anniversary of St. Brother Albert Chmielowski, attributable to 25 December 2016, the Polish Episcopal Conference acknowledged a request of the general superior of the Albertine Sisters (Cracow) and the chairperson of the Society of Help named St. Brother Albert (Wrocław), in order to establish the Year of St. Brother Albert in Polish dioceses. »
AGNIESZKA BUGAŁA
When a baby is born in a family, the rumors are going quickly. Grandmas and grandpas want to see their grandchild, closer and further aunts are phoning to congratulate – there are loads of phone calls, the first photos are sent via mails and there are continuous delights. When the baby was being born in Bethlehem, it was very quiet and cold. »
THEY WILL WORSHIP THE SAME JESUS
MAGDALENA KOWALEWSKA
In Poland and in the world there are more and more towns where the Procession of Three kings is organized. This year, a joyful colourful procession reminding of the birth of Christ in Bethlehem is going to take place in over 500 cities of the country and 20 abroad, including 5 places of Rwanda. »
BROTHER ALBERT REMINDS US ABOUT DIGNITY OF EVERY HUMAN
THE CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY
Polish bishops edited a pastoral letter on the occasion of the Year of St. Brother Albert which starts on the Day of Lord’s Birth – on 25 December 2016. Hierarchs point that the Year of St. Brother Albert is a continuation of the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy ended recently. They note that real change of heart is expressed in merciful action for our neighbours. »
Fr. Luciano Pescatore comes from Apula. At present he is a parish priest in a church in Montenero di Bisaccia (the region of Molise). He has an unusual profession – he prepares relics of the beatified and saints, among the others, of John Paul II. »
Fr. Jerzy Banak talks with Fr. Kazimierz Frankiewicz OFMConv, a guardian of the Sepulcher in Jerusalem, about an exceptional initiative which is celebrating the Holy Mass for Homeland in the most important place for Christianity »
AGNIESZKA PORZEZIŃSKA
Women would not be going out into streets to fight for ‘their’ rights, if they felt loved, if they did not lose sense of safety at home »
Anna Skopińska talks with archbishop Marek Jędraszewski – the metropolita of Łódź, a deputy of the chairperson of the Polish Episcopal Conference about steadfast archbishop Antoni Baraniak, attitudes which give strength, about forgiveness and remembrance »
GRZEGORZ GÓRNY
In May I and a photographer Janusz Rosikon published a richly illustrated book entitled: ‘Fatima Mysteries. »
PILGRIMAGES TO JASNA GÓRA IN NUMBERS – TO 14 AUGUST 2016 IN TOTAL
PRESS OFFICE OF JASNA GÓRA
This year, in the season of pilgrimages, from 10 April to 14 August, at Jasna Góra there were: 133 pilgrimages on foot. »
IN THE HOMELAND OF JOHN PAUL II
JOLANTA KOBOJEK
In the beginning of August, Jasna Góra became a place of pilgrimages of s. Marie Simon-Pierre Normand, whom the whole world got to know in relation to her healing through the intercession of John Paul II. She was accompanied by her mother Maria Thomas Fabre, the superior the general of the convent of Little Sisters of Catholic Motherhood. »
THE WORK OF JOHN PAUL II IS ALIVE
ALINA CZERNIAKOWSKA
When I am writing this text, young Christians from all over the world are arriving at Poland, streets are becoming more colourful, joyful and there are more and more smiles, friendliness from both sides – hosts and guests. I was a witness of greeting the young in the historical Warsaw church in Leszno. »
THE KNIGHTS OF THE CROSS – BETWEEN A LEGEND AND THE REALITY
Włodziemierz Rędzioch talks with Bishop Bruno Platter – a great master of the Teutonic order »