Tytuł 24

Stanislaw Barszczak, The Cross way everytime—

I do like this beautiful ceremony crowning of the Mother of God in the Archdiocese of ours in Praszka. German Praschkau a town in Poland, located in the Opole province, in the district Olesno, Praszka in the municipality, which is the seat of the river Prosna. The first mention of the settlement come from the 1260 municipal rights in 1392. In the fifteenth century. The city’s population were engaged in smelting iron ore. The first two centuries of the city’s existence involves a high degree of economic development, among others thanks to its location on the border with Silesia. The fall of the city occurs as a result of wars in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. After the Second Partition of Poland city was under Prussian rule, in the years 1807-1815 the Duchy of Warsaw, and since 1815 together with the land Wieluń in the Polish Kingdom. In the seven years after the fall of the January Uprising in 1870, Praszka lost its charter. Regained it in 1919. After World War I, during which it was occupied by the German Empire, then after the Second World War within the limits of the Second Republic of Poland. Here is a place for many years now the Poles pilgrimage to the Virgin of Kalwaria of Trust. Father Stanislaw Gasiński -the guardian shrine is also a priest of the Archdiocese of Czestochowa like me. Born on 19 September 1959. Skawina,  obtained a matriculation certificate in Secondary School, in Krakow May 31, 1978. He was ordained in the Cathedral of Czestochowa, 10 June 1984 year. The Custodian of the Sanctuary Father Stanislaus I personally met at the seminary in 1982, when along with him I studied theology and dealt the same room, and I met a very zealous candidate for the priesthood. Professor Dr.  priest, activist later, he worked in various parishes of the diocese, he has also established partnerships with parishes Pollau in Austria and Mutterstadt in Germany. Therefore, he frequently, regularly travel abroad for the pastoral purpose. His efforts and largely involving its own funds, was founded Sanctuary of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Kalwaria in Praszka by a decree of the Archbishop of Częstochowa in 11 October 2002. On September 13, 2004. in Praszka was lifted religious ceremony – the erection and dedication of Calvary under the leadership of the Archbishop of Czestochowa – Mons. Archbishop Stanislaw Nowak. During the general audience, held on 18 March 2015. St. Peter’s Square. Peter’s in the Vatican, Archbishop Waclaw Depo, Metropolitan of Czestochowa, asked Pope Francis to bless the crown and the blessing of the further process to the coronation of the Virgin of Kalwaria of Trust in Praszka. The Holy Father put his hands on the crown, said a prayer and sign of the cross blessed them, as well as members of the delegation arrived. Also he embraced the blessing of the Archdiocese of Czestochowa with its own Pastor and Parish of the Holy Family in Praszka, in which the Passion-Marian sanctuary of the miraculous image of the Virgin of Kalwaria of Trust. Monsignore Stanislaw Gasiński, custodian of the Shrine in Praszka, gave thank for the blessings and the gift of crowns and submitted to the Holy Father as a gift stole with the image of the Virgin of Kalwaria of Trust. This act was somehow complement the words that on 19 August 2002 in Kalwaria Zebrzydowska John Paul II said: “May Our Lady of Calvary reigns also in Praszka”. And here arose Calvary way, as in Kalwaria Zebrzydowska near Krakow in front of four hundred years ago. The coronation of the image now takes place in Praszka on 12 September 2015. The land is beautiful nearby town of Wielun, at which dropped the first bombs of World War II. And now here we started some new great task, with the help of Mother of God. The Coronation of Our Lady in Praszka, I apologize for the comparison, this Oscar is not for me, not even for you, but for the mother of God, who fights for the happiness of every person, not just one of Czestochowa, also from the west border of the Republic, against enemies from outside, but also against refugees from the spirit of Jesus’ mission. We say this is a man living without God. I do not. From Auschwitz, I would say, the whole world is guilty, we are too. Recently I was at the Franciscan Fathers in Nessebar and Bourgas, in Bulgaria, and by news media I heard from “wanderer peoples” of Asia, Greece, who make pilgrimages to Germany of today as the land of promise in the Europe. Refugees from Syria, Iraq, Muslims, are they wanderers, whom we do not wish in Europe? We manifest for or against them, we want to help them, physically and spiritually, that’s good. Because we always just more aware of the situation in the present world. We feel so guilty for them. At this point, I would lean over our life, however reluctantly mention of the Auschwitz concentration camp from World War II in the center of Europe. However, it would not be to blame, this camp in Auschwitz because blame can indulge arguments. In Auschwitz, says Martin Walser, we had to deal with Schade- damage, which is impossible to get rid of her, strange trauma of the past. And Auschwitz is not a matter of Satan, Satan, the beast, but ‘Deutsche Organisation’. Auschwitz is not an exercise duty in the NSDAP. So, we also are guilty. It’s terrible, of Auschwitz, no day without a past. Every day has his stress, Martin Walser, German contemporary writer hard that had remarked. A life is a bump in a happy tone, find him. The church will be, said Karl Rahner, either mystical or it will not. We must pray, rely on Jesus, who wants only to serve every man, also through suffering. And recently I listen to Buddha was more capable of God Reinhold Messner, Austrian Himalaya climber had told that. Reinhold Messner opened a beautiful museum in his land, with props from around the world, from Tibet also. Thus, our generations he purposed to reveal his identity and identification of him with the mountains. Let’s ask, what is my identity now? My identity, I would say, approaching by no means so much to the identity of Yaroslav Hasek, but… the level of the sea. In Budapest there is a sign on the church tower – in 1838 and from there reached the water of the Danube river. Germany and Hungary were flooded, under water was a church in Budapest. Today I would say that the identity of the man is often as the identity of the fish, that float to the top of the river. I’m almost sure that, Peter Esterhazy, Hungarian writer had spoken. Personally I would say that the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century we also found under water, but our consciousness, I will say more identity-it can be equated with the ‘identity’ of fish, Pisces, that came ashore the high Danube river. However R. Messner still remarked: Today ”Dasein’’, human being, is more expensive than ever. And in my homeland centuries before was the deluge. First we had the flood, which came to us from the distant past, the Baltic Sea came untill the mountains Tatry, then we had a deluge of Sweden, the Swedish soldiers were occupied our lands in the seventeenth century, then we were under the bondage of communism of the Soviet Union Soviet, recently spilled over the river Oder, there was like secular deluge. I ponder we are still in the water, which reaches high above the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw. And the water goes  to the spire of the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw. We are guilty. What the behavior of the people in such a situation is, the answer to this question I also put himself. In my interest to write from the perspective of a man, who drenching with a flood that holding on to the top of the church tower. The key was rejected for such identity with the church, and preserved the traditions of historical means, I suppose. Though I will go forward to be a tangible sign of the wisdom of every person. To finish my essay words of the Gospel: ” And Jesus went out, with his disciples, into the little towns round Caesarea Philippi; and on the way he put a question to his disciples, saying, Who do men say that I am?  And they made answer, John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; but others, One of the prophets. And he said to them, But who do you say I am? Peter said in answer, You are the Christ. And he put them under orders not to say this of him to anyone. And teaching them, he said that the Son of man would have to undergo much, and be hated by those in authority, and the chief priests, and the scribes, and be put to death, and after three days come back from the dead. And he said this openly. And Peter took him, and was protesting. But he, turning about, and seeing his disciples, said sharply to Peter, Get out of my way, Satan: for your mind is not on the things of God, but on the things of men. And turning to the mass of people with his disciples, he said to them, If any man has the desire to come after me, let him give up all other desires, and take up his cross and come after me. Whoever has a desire to keep his life, will have it taken from him; and whoever gives up his life because of me and the good news, will keep it.”(see, Mk 8, 27-35) Sapienti sat.

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