Ltd. in the monastery. Pauline Cliff in Krakow, before the altar three millennia, Mass was held. The faithful gathered for the ceremony with applause greeted the relics exhibited at the altar of Blessed John Paul II and St.. Stanislaus Kazimierczyk.
Eucharist was presided by Cardinal Vicar of the diocese of Rome. Camillo Ruini. Card. said in his homily that Pope John Paul II, in his whole life and throughout his ministry, he gave himself completely, and thus became a true giant of faith and the Church, a giant of history.
- giant, because it somehow became visible for all the size of Christ - was the vicar said the Diocese of Rome, a longtime collaborator of John Paul II. The text of the homily read out in Polish Polish Primate, Archbishop Jozef Kowalczyk.
Card. Ruini underlined that John Paul II was near anyone they met along the way and remember all the prayer that was "like a Geo," he roamed the different contexts and continents. - He was a friend of every nation, worried about his fate. His apostolic journeys also have a meaning - Cardinal said. Ruini.
former vicar of the diocese of Rome said that Karol Wojtyla was characterized by extraordinary courage. - It was his inborn trait, which appeared after the assassination, for example, if not agreed to apply special security measures prelate recalled.
As noted, has proved that courage Wojtyla in Poland, for example, fighting for a church in Nowa Huta, but also the world when they took on the challenge to reverse the process of secularization.
- "Things can change" - said often. And the sense was that we can change them, or rather that God can change them acting in us and through us. In this way, the pope changed history in Poland and Central and Eastern Europe, but also in the universal Church, among others starting (....), new phase of ecumenism and interreligious dialogue - Cardinal said. Ruini.
faithful, who went from Wawel to Skałka in a procession in honor of Saint. Stanislaw, which is both thanksgiving for the beatification of John Paul II and the canonization of Stanislaus Kazimierczyk, filled the monastery courtyard.
carried in the procession were the most important Polish relics of saints, including St. Polish patron. And St. Stanislaus. Adalbert and the new Blessed John Paul II. Crosier was also carried in the form of a cross, which for years used the pope.
Metropolitan of Krakow, Cardinal. Stanislaw Dziwisz gathered to welcome Pope Benedict XVI thanked for the beatification of John Paul II and for choosing the date of the celebration of Divine Mercy Sunday.
- We are pleased that the first Thanksgiving for the Beatification nationwide falls on the feast of St. Stanislaus, Bishop and Martyr, whom the blessed John Paul II was a great worshiper - said the Cardinal. Dziwisz. He recalled that Karol Wojtyla Bishop Martyr wrote about the poem, "Stanislaw", and just as he shed the blood - 30 years ago, on May 13 during the assassination attempt on pl. St. Peter.
- Wonderfully saved my life devoted by the end of the service of their brothers and sisters throughout the world, becoming a distinctive witness to Jesus Christ and his Gospel, and by the shedding of blood - said Cardinal Dziwisz. - In addition to St. Adalbert, the patron saint of hierarchical order, and St. Stanislaus, the patron saint of moral order, the two main Polish patrons, Blessed John Paul II grows into a patron of Polish freedom, that his word should be mature in our unity and solidarity - said the Archbishop of Krakow.
ceremony in Krakow Bronislaw Komorowski attending the president and his wife Anna, and Deputy Prime Minister Waldemar Pawlak.
Source: onet.pl
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