MY PURPOSE IN THE LORD'S VINEYARD

By KAZIMIERZ KUCZAJ , the religious priest of the Society du Christ 13, place Sainte Eulalie 33000 Bordeaux, France

In Audience of 3 July 2014 with Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard, Archbishop of Bordeaux I presented A project of a mixed fraternity of the third order in extension of our Congregation/Society of Christ; according to the spirituality of Saint John Paul II and Saint Faustina, this fraternity would have as its goal, if The Cardinal approves of it, to spread the Mystery of Divine Mercy in the Church and in the World current under the

Springboard for the Mission that the Archbishop launched in the the day after Pentecost last during the Feast Diocesan with the Special Charter offered to this opportunity. I will keep you informed of the outcome that the Cardinal would give to this proposal. Let us pray that she is taken into account. Father Casimir Kuczaj SChr

My Spiritual Journey - Baptism

Has from that moment of 12 July 2014 at 3.30 a.m., I begin to write the Spiritual Testament for the Society of the Merciful Christ whose life started on July 3rd during my Meeting with the Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard, Archbishop of Bordeaux. I I presented him that day with the Letter-Memoir on the Holy Trinity Icon or Image of Divine Mercy. How did we get here? And at what point did it all start? He this is the period of Fifty Years of my Spiritual Life That Began on the Day of My Baptism some twelve years earlier in January 1952. Yes, I give back first thanks be to God: the Holy Trinity: the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost, for creating me with the natural participation of my Dear Parents, Janina and Antoni, some nine months earlier according to the Laws that my Creator and my Lord God has established for everything world. Janina Hebda and Antoni Kuczaj were married in 1949 and had a total of eight children. I came into the world on the 3rd January 1952 two years after their first child and son in 1950 who is my brother Ignacy. The first names of others Brothers and sisters are the following according to their arrivals to the world one after the other: Stanisława, Józef, Marian, Teresa, Maria i Andrzej. They raised us in their house built by our father himself in from the wood of the barn offered by his parents-in-law, Jan Hebda and Katarzyna Godon, who lived on the other side of the small river Jaworzynka that conducts its waters until today from its sources that we approach the hill called Prehyba or Przehyba about 1300 meters above the Baltic Sea which is on the other side of the Poland. Here the village of my Conception and my Birth which carries the name Gabon and the hamlet or locality Praczka is just the entrance to the great forests that through Wooded hills and valleys bring us on the border with Slovakia our neighbours of the Southeast. The road that begins at the foot of Prehyba passes some 4 km further down next to our wooden house which has was painted blue just before my Ordination Priestly in 1978. This road leads us to the nearby village by Skrudzina

at 1 km from our house and 1 km further we are near of the Chapel of St. Francis of Assisi which was Built a few years ago on the site of my elementary school where lived as a tenant our Director Władysław Opolski with his family. To celebrate the Millennium of Poland a new school had been Built in the thirties ten of the century last and before building a new parish church in Gołkowice the parish priest Kazimierz Koszyk with the Parishioners have raised this Chapel to some 5 km from the parish church under the name and patronage of Saint Anthony of Padua. The road and the Jaworzynka River we both lead us to this Village Principal of our Gołkowice Parish: the road before arriving at the stop sign of the departmental road that connects Stary Sącz and Krościenko then Szczawnica meets with another road which comes from the Gaboń village in its central part or after my Ordination priestly was created a new parish and built a new consecrated church to the Blessed Virgin Our Lady of Częstochowa.La part of the Village Gaboń where my birthplace is located the hamlet Praczka remained attached to the Old Parish Gołkowice where we find ourselves with the road and the river. Jaworzynka seeks and manages to have its waters thrown into the Dunajec River shortening its path and finally crossing our path at side of the house from which I left solenally in procession on the Day of the Mass of First fruits at my cousin Maria, the daughter of my Godfather Léon Kuczaj, the younger brother of my father. Stanislas, her husband who came of the village Moszczenica of the electrical profession thus introduced itself into our extended family with so many other people since they come from large families my father's brothers and sisters—and they were A dozen have perpetrated the tradition of families Many. Only one of my father's sisters is still alive in that moment; her name is Helena and she lives in the Village Moszczenica right next to Skrudzina, we call this place also called Działy Skrudzińskie. Side my mother Janina, his half-brother Franciszek born of my maternal grandfather's first wife lived until his death in the part of Gaboń Village which bore the name Bachnaté not far from where began the road leading its surface from the feet of Prehyba until Goł kowice.Ma mother also had a brother full apart from his half-brother François; he his name was Jan and once married he lived with his family in Piątkowa behind the town of Nowy Sącz, the Main City of my native region, which for a certain time time was even a Voivodōdō City but soon after the reorganization of the Poland brought the City of Kraków (Kraków) as the Historically Main City of this Region of Poland which bears the name of Małopolska which means: Little Poland, which during the 123 years of political non-existence of Poland between 1795 and 1918 was under the rule of the Austro-Hungarian Empire which, together with Prussia and Russia, became are shared the largest country of Central Europe, my native country. I was born in this beautiful country and in this Region while after the novella Great War and the victory of the Allies in 1945 is regained again - despite independence found in 1918 after the first Great World War - Again Subjected to Oppression From the yoke of the political system stalinien imported with the Red Army crossing Poland to Berlin where the Collaborating Polish Army Division of the Soviet display the white-red Polish flag next to it of the Russian-Soviet standard. Stalin was still alive When I was born and baptized A few days later in January 1952: a year after died and - what I was told - there was the order given of national mourning; We had to cry May We were rejuvenating. But for all that the imported regime and imposed did not give way to the Freedom, independence and democracy than much later when I was already for seven years in France in June of 1989 and we celebrated A few weeks ago the 25th anniversary of this Event: First elections half-free after the hard time of the state of Oppression at the command of general Jaruzelski who also died this anniversary year 2014 where we are. So I was born under The oppressive political regime but I was baptized right after and I became a child of God free from all constraint in my soul and conscience: and I have soon became aware of this thanks to my Parents; The godfather was for me at the same time the uncle, my father's brother, Leon, whom I already have mentioned the name, and I'll get back to him a little more late because the 1939-1945 War made between my father and him a particular game. I talk about my baptism in church Parish of Gołkowice, diocese of Tarnów built in wood in 1913-1917 following the detachment of this part of the corner of the Podegrodzie Parish area, the Village on the other side of the river Dunajec; by taking the road to Kroscienko we cross this river by a bridge and then we head right towards Nowy Sącz by a departmental road between Szczawnica and that city. On this road we arrive after some six/seven kilometers in Podegrodzie or elsewhere was born and raised my Provincial, Father Jean Ciaglo, whom I had the honor one day bring France in my car on my way home from vacation and the departure from Podegrodzie was done under the tears of his own Parents who saw their Son go on a mission that was awarded by the Christ of whom we are both members which can be guessed by the name: my Provincial. Let's go back to my Baptism where it all began and this Spiritual Testament finds there its Source. My godmother was Franciszka Szczypta whose The great-grandson is now also the priest of the Diocese of Tarnow for some years from the same village as me: the godmother was the Voisine de our Family just across the river Jaworzynka whose waters gave life to the body as the Saint Spirit gave the life of the soul from the day of our baptism. Thank you to my Parents, Godfather and Godmother to ask it for me to the Church of God in the Beginning of my existence in this world that passes with time which also passes. The promise of immortality and Eternal life and the resurrection of my body too I rejoice terribly and deeply. When I have twelve years in the image of Christ Jesus in the Temple of Jerusalem, I will be seized with the deep feeling that what account before and after all it is the Faith in the Holy One Trinity in whose name one is baptized to be and become what one is: Child of God and Christian Catholic. It's wonderful! It is 7 o'clock in the morning of this 12 July 2014. I interrupt my narrative and I get out of the way.Ve for Saturday.

My Parents

I thank the Lord God for giving me these Parents: Janina Hebda and Antoni Kuczaj. They were from the same Village and Neighbors of the distence of about five hundred meters. My mother was the youngest daughter of my grandfather's second marriage widower who married Katarzyna Godon and worked in making the brooms of the branches of small woods and baskets of the Same material to look for and find in the forest in the surrounding area and selling them at the Stary Sącz market or elsewhere. They lived in an old small building which after The death of my grandfather was Demolishes; The barn had already been used for the Construction by my father of the family home and the Elements of the deconstructed house of my grown-ups maternal parents was now used to build a stable for a cow, pig, rabbits and chickens and a small barn and a New large barn was raised just at always by the work of my father, helped by his brothers Leon, my godfather and Jan, who stayed living in the family home of my paternal Grandparents once married to Janina and who worked as manual carpentry like my father; My father was also a carpenter and mason and did the services of the surrounding population by building, for example, fireplaces and barns and also entire houses with other workers who recognized his abilities and talents. He was also an artist, a farmer and musician. The wooden engravings of Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Heart Immaculate of the Blessed Virgin Mary he gave me offered for ten years of my priesthood are clear proof of this. He played accordion, violin, and organ; I am also passionate about this last instrument; I inherited This talent of him. My dad! I promised to go back to The story between my father and my godfather. They were young people both when in 1939 the Second World War to burst. My father didn't have Still 18 years but my future godfather does. And he was summoned to go to Germany for compulsory work and Jan second Daddy's brother too. He didn't want to leave the Poland that we have fomented a trick: Antoni, my future Dad, not being old enough, would show up at the place of Leon. And it worked: He went to Austria in the farm near Gratz to work while long of this War; His stories of This voluntary but unpaid emigration from our father in our childhood and young age. When after years the demands to demand compensation of Germans for this unpaid work have somewhat the problem was that it was not Antoni but Leo who apparently was exiled. He had to look for witnesses; But let us not forget that this was not yet a free and independent Poland but under the Soviet Communist yoke. Freedom was not than at home and at the Church. I thank this Church of Christ to grant the request of my parents and the godfather and godmother and to welcome me into his midst maternal. This was also the response of my Parents who on their wedding day at church on answered yes to the question: Do you want to welcome as a gift from God the children who may be born of your union and to educate him Christianly? After Return of emigration Antoni sought to get married and he found not far away the one that will give him eight children. I have the honor and joy of being one of them. My dear mother, as you have A lot of workto give birth to all eight of us; and to educate us since our dad also worked many days and nights. You knew how to sew so the fabrics passed by your but and the Singer pedal machine and then you gave us the clothes because to buy them All ready there was not enough money. And then We had to feed all this growing world and where Each of us also grew in age and grace and wisdom, as told of the Holy Family of Jesus of Nazareth. We were not saints like him but thanks to his Church he gave us and restored this holiness in the sacraments. I'm going there come back later. First of all I pay you a great tribute my Dear Parents: Yes, there was material poverty, It is true that sometimes he even lacked food and the hunger was approaching our bodies, but my soul was living well his Baptism and then his first confession and his First Communion. The great Images hanging on the wall of our House allowed us to contemplate this Love of two Wonderful hearts where your Love of Parents for their children by welcoming them one by one, one after the other, all helped, loved and educated Christianly with the help of the Priests of the Parish. The Parish, I will come back to: Here I would still like evoke a period of emigration from our father in Czechoslovakia to work in the Mines. This separation from dad who only came back every three or more months and moms were alone in keep us in hands and discipline. Dad on the way home for a little one Leave brought ready-made clothes, shoes, and gifts. But it was necessary to go through the dowry. And One day, everything was taken from him at the douanne; due to exceeding the quantity. Nothing to say that we have so many children... It was very hard when he came back with nothing; We were all crying and he is not Plus left down to separate from his family. He hired at ORB, a small state-owned enterprise for work under the feet of Prehyba and for constructions bridges over Jaworzynka. Very close to the House then, so We had him our dad every day at home. When he He was still working at home in make all kinds of furniture and even coffins for bury the dead of the village when necessary. We the boys attended this work by holding the equipment or in Watching on Saturdays so as not to exceed the hour of Midnight and respect the Sunday rest. Our father was putting in prayer while leaning with his elbows on a chair and we were invited to pray together as Family: Parents and children. Catechesis first in primary school and then expelled from the school and the parish priest had to look for the place in the inhabitants to dispense it for us. At the age of Seven years the first class of the school began. primary; there are in Poland the classes of the first up to the seventh; This was until 1966, the Millennium of the Baptism of Poland in 966 by the conversion of Prince Mieszko and his marriage to a Princess of Czechia Dobrawka who she was Christian Catholic. It is through this reception of Religion Christian from the Southern Neighboring Country that Mieszko had wanted express a desire for independence from to the West Germanic Neighbours who will subject this Poland in history the grievances of this choice politico-religious which they disliked. The Holy Roman Empire Confuseshas politics and religion until manifest in the twentieth century in these writings Blasphemous on the centures of Hitler's soldiers: Got put one! Our father spent five years in this Third Raîche and must always be careful not to reveal his identity to be Antoni but Leon, too, once returned to his country To resist the new Soviet invader is its collaborator up to our own village and the around. The principal of the primary school in Skrudzina where we went to learn to read and write, was the first Secretary of the Party Worker and his version of Poland's history was not not my father's. Poland has really started recently and not a thousand years ago, it was said at school and marches were organized with the red flags. My father was told: Why do you Don't join the Party? You could be helped with your many children to feed. My father didn't argue at these topics. He said: I don't have time. We have to go at church, at Mass every Sunday and festivities and the six-kilometre walking path on this road that was not paved like it is today. And then manual work and not of electricity in our village until 1971 because of punishment. Meetings of the propaganda from time to time to get people out of the time of the Middle Ages, it was said among the people of the progress. Once - my father told me - They came from the heralds of the philosophy of the Enlightenment and We gathered the people of the village to perverse them the legitimacy of the new and modern system. At some point one of the farmers had stood up. and said, Sir, listen to me! We understood what you want! You want us to stop attending church nor of this crucified and risen Christ. So I proposes, there is no shortage of wood here, that at least one of them you volunteer to be cricified as you avat done long ago with our Lord! All were in the Amazement at the audacity of this man who challenged these Collaborators of the Totalitarian System. They took their caps and left empty-handed, but our village suffered The consequences: No electric light for These recalcitrant. My brother Jozef learned his lesson well of our dad. When he was in the army and we wanted him to join the People's Party: he said: I would rather hang myself on a first tree than do that. We obviously tried to make him suffer the consequences of his remarks. He still suffers today in body and mind; Fortunately, he had not married and he supports with his prayers all the family, after having accompanied to the end our Parents in the House where he lives alone now having as Neighbor his brother Andrzej the youngest of Frateria, married to Danuta Szewczyk du Village voisin Skrudzina, and raising their six children with her and on the other side his sister Maria, married to Zbigniew Zembura de Stary Sącz who also had six children and they even started be the Grandparents, since their eldest daughter bears a child fruit of their love and marriage which took place on the 13th October 2012 in Gołkowice. They met in Krakow during their studies: Tomasz lived in this Royal City and now they both live and work there, really. say all three. Lord thou hast allowed the seed of My ByEnts reaches the number of 26 small children and you have already took one of them after You hardly born: Thy will be glorified even if I always see tears in Karoline's eyes Cieśla, his mother, at the mention of this Event. She had, my sister-in-law married with Marian, my brother, who had found her in Brzozowa near Tarnow,where they live and who are Already several times grandparents, yes she also had six children. I will evoke on my Parents the memories of Their departure from this earth: for mom on September 23, 2002 and For My Dad on October 5, 2004. Between these two dates is my Silver Jubilee of my Priestly Ordination. They are buried in the Parish Cemetery in Gołkowice and I thank the parish priests for helping us to living these painful moments of separation: the Elder of the time of my Mass of Premice, the Abbot Stefan Tokarz, the Golden Jubilee of the Priesthood and the new and current Abbot Kazimierz Koszyk, who has a heavy task double to bring all the parishioners to Heaven and build a New church stronger than the wooden one for Subsequent generations. I also thank my Congregation Sosietas Christi to demonstrate strongly by the important delegations their presence at funeral of my Dear Parents.

The Parish

The Spiritual journey of the baptized child can be followed still in his natural family but soon joined this new family which is the Church of God, the family supernatural. This was my case since Baptism when I was given the name: Kazimierz ce qui se se translated into French by Casimir. After my brother Ignacy (Ignace) the second boy also receives the Patron Great in the Sky: of the Polish Royal Family and Lithuanian of the time of the XIV century or the Poland and Lithuania have allied themselves in a sort of First European Union long before that of today and built on the best foundations more Christian than ever given that this Marriage of Władysław Jagiełło and Jadwiga the One Kings Polish women has enabled the advancement of the conversions of the pagans of this region who moreover were forced to cover themselves by the Knights Teutonic of Germanic origin already wanting open the space to the east that Hitler will make openly proclaim by his: Drag nah Osten! My Patron of Heaven was not a priest or religious; but he was single one can say consecrated; dedicated to Life in God through Virgin Health Mary. His grave is in Vilna and its influence throughout the especially since his canonization. Thank you my parents for having makes this choice for me! The others were not less spoiled: Józef (Joseph), Teresa (Thérèse), Marian, Maria and Andrzej which translates as Andrew. The The parish had grown with each new baptism; First the eight children and wells the twelve grandchildren of Janaina and Antoni. about twenty new People coming into this world and seeking to take their full place in our Parish of Saint Anthony of Padoue.Je have never followed me separated from my parish of origin since it is A supernatural reality and I come back to it all the years to participate philosically in his life where the Human persons pass but the Holy Trinity remains in permanence: The Holy Trinity one living and true God. At above the presbytery an inscription: Niech będzie Bóg uwielbiony, Praise be to God! And then this Icon of the Holy Trinity or the Image of Divine Mercy Hanging above the large watch to the right of the Tabernacle and next to the secondary altar with the Statue of the Sacred Heart, the other side of the church having the secondary altar with the Statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary and her Immaculate Heart. This Divine Mercy I mean this Icon-Image since When was she there? I don't know exactly and I does not seek to know. The lyrics written there The answer was in my heart as a young boy: That was already my answer. fact: Jesus, I trust in You! First calls to the Priesthood in harmony with the Mystery of the Altar and from the Tabernacle came to me from this Icon-Image and resonates in my soul and heart to this day! My Spiritual Journey will always return to this church to this place where I saw and believed. It's my Golden Jubilee this year 2014 since the age of my twelve years; I have to be in my business. Lord and of my God, I must be in the business of his Church! The first confession; First Communion; Sunday and other celebrations; I got 'em all not only in my mind and heart; but also in my Aging body thanks to my feet that allowed me to make the six-kilometre route as often as possible. Then there wast a bicycle and even a cyclo; but It's a lot later when I was already at the High School in Stary Sącz street of the Partisans under the name by Maria Curie-Skłodowska. Thank you Parish and all these witnesses of Christ of my childhood and adolescence. My vocation was awakened thanks to my Parents and thanks to You too. The church filled with human warmth and Christian even if sometimes he was minus twenty degrees in winter. The school despite its ideologies imposed thanks to the Parish could not take away my faith and she still taught me to read and write in Polish and I follow him thankful. Mathematics and phisic too; for what is of the biology of man I remember that one day the Director ordered us to read about the provenance of Man from the ape, according to the Gospel by Darvin. Once the text was read: he said that as in all There is also an exception here; it was not from This way neither of the monkey. Some have understood and I was part of it! The parish rejoiced in my vocation and prayed for me during my Seminary in Poznań and she Pray for me and other priests from the Parish until today. She organized with my family and my Village my Mass of First Fruit that we Never forget and we always come back! Many thanks!

The Test of Adolescence and Confirmation

The Heaven in the Fire is the title of a book by Parandowski. I don't remember its contents, but this title settled in my memory after the passage of all kinds of tests that attacked, with the permission of Divine Providence, my Christian faith in the time of my adolescence. Calls to aspire one day to Becoming a Catholic priest has encountered influences of all the propaganda deployed throughout the country and questioned my beliefs that accompanied me since my childhood. Readings imposed in the fifth, Sixth and seventh classes of the school primary and then entry into an eighth class at the level of the whole parish on the lay side in Gołkowice and then at the Lycéé in Stary Sącz were trying to distance me from God and His salvation. One Day the neighbor invited me to drink at her house a few cups of tea and had told me all kinds of stories about Catholic priests. I have The priest who taught us the catechism at Gołkowice in eighth grade left the priesthood and is party with a woman; the same with the other who taught us religion for four years at the time of the period from High School to Stary Sącz. I realized all my weaknesses, and I would resort without much conviction to the Sacrament of Reconciliation. And then one day I surrendered account that I was still missing the Sacrament of Confirmation and I was already approaching my eighteenth birthday. I asked to be confirmed to the Parish of Stary Sącz and many things have improved. Last class, the fourth, of the Lycée is arrival and it was necessary to prepare for the Bac and make choices for adult life. Still not having not electricity at home Family I asked my parents to allow to reside at the boarding school in Stary Sącz for this last year of the Lycée for be able to prepare my Bac properly. At home it would be Very difficult since we were more numerous to want to be served by a single kerosene lamp evenings and days in autumn and winter were very short according to the laws of nature. I have Fortunately obtained this permission even though some of my uncles reproached me for having chosen the Lycée and not one of the Technical Schools to be able to work fast enough and help my Parents for education and material life of the whole Family. They apparently didn't think I could do some higher education. Intimmeringly, I wondered about my future but without more, because there was too much to do. All holidays since primary school and during high school I had to earn the money to buy the books and notebooks and even clothing and shoes; at A family in the vilage for two months I worked for Let her finally buy me a suit: a jacket and a pentalon; And that was it. I had maybe eleven or twelve years. A whole month of vacation with a other Family carry bricks in the construction of their house. I expected to receive a large sum; about ten zlotych only; To my disappointment and contestation the Scathing answer: but we fed you during everything that time. Ora et labora. This Benedictine motto is an exact characteristic of my young age. The blueberry picking and forest picking anything that prevented small trees from growing and the Field work for village or guard simply animals cows in particular, when ours unique could be guarded and walked by the smaller members of my fraternity i.e. Younger: There was this chore that we didn't like Sutout on Sunday afternoons. But once more numerous There was: each in turn and then we could sing, read and Pray during this time spent with only one cow!

The signs of Divine Providence

In Emergency taken from home during the winter of a year terrible or we were almost all sick. The flu badly treated and then to control the fever we ate the snow simply on the way home from school. My brother two years older than me found himself at Nowy Sącz Hospital, his condition had changed aggravated and transported to hospital specialized from Krakow. It has fallen into condition of unconsciousness and prognostics was inquisitive. Three weeks in a coma, our father took the train from Stary Sącz to go see him maybe last time alive; But he got off the train at a station where finds a Marian sancctuary of the Diocese of Tarnów in Our Lady of Tuchów, at the Redemotorist Fathers where he asked for Mass for our brother Ignatius. gave an image where the day and time were noted of the Mass that will be celebrated for his son dying. He got back on the train, went to the hospital. from Krakow and then he returned home. Which was the joy of learning that the day and the time of the celebration of this requested Mass Our brother had opened his eyes and found the consciousness of existing. His lungs were in a state of dramatic and he had to go to Rabka Sanatorium a lot of time after coming out of this state commatous. When he came home, he told me joined in my class having lost two years of school because of this disease. But this ordeal for him and for the whole Family was an opportunity to see that God can work miracles and above all we understood the greatness and importance of the Holy Mass. It was believed and We knew it, but when this story came to mind we knew that without any prize we must not miss the Sunday Mass and Feasts and that we pleasing God by assistant in the week especially that it was necessary to do this Always on foot six kilometers one way and as much for the Return exactly. I was told that I myself Being little I had a serious problem of a ball coming out of the inside of the organism near of the throat. I keep the after-effects until today and I believe the Lord has brought me out of this situation dangerous for my life with means not surgical but - From what I am told when I put in this place the skin that snakes leave from time to time according to this that the laws of nature allow them. We passed the children all kinds of diseases but thanks to God we We are all eight alive so far. I will tell the story of the skiing accident at the age of 14 years where my foot has done almost all the around He and I made him go back to his former position fortunately by returning to the direction and No by continuing even if my eyes at this moment were filled with tears of self-protection as I did not feel pain until after a certain Time after a shock and for several weeks I was unable to walk; I wasn't even brought at the hospital; a wise man from the nearby Village checked simply that nothing was broken and that he It was necessary to wait for nature itself to re-establish the balance of power. Another time on a bicycle I almost found myself in another world; a few seconds of unconsciousness and then it was all well spent; A woman I touched a water seal she wore while walking on the edge of the road in Skrudzina when the brakes failed a Kind enough to deverPutting the other seal on me in a distorted. And then when I was already at the Poznań Seminary a tram was able to crush me during A return of the walk but I think it was my Guardian angel who had saved me from this terrible danger. If I had been the only one to notice it I would not write this incredible testimony; but we was several with my colleagues and brothers. I was not used to trams it is obvious; I didn't see it coming and I jumped as spontaneously but the problem is that I do not have it not done normally i.e. forward but in back according to what my colleagues amazed. Yes, I tried to do it afterwards outside the tram lines obviously but I always found that this for me was impossible. I thank the Lord for keeping me alive like this. For Say everything about this liberation from the danger of possible death I I will say last the accident that happened to me at Roubaix in the church in 1996; I was in hanging a speaker at the height of five Metres; The ladder has slipped and I am fell on the knees in front of the Tabenacles and one of the kneecaps had broken into six pieces; I was Alone and despite all the dramatic situation I arrived, with God's help to reconnect everything, prepare myself to Spend the next few days at the Hpôpital and call the ambulance. The nurses coming to the courtyard of The church asked me this question: Where Is the injured person? That's me, I replied. and I couldn't take even a step, he had to carry me on the stretcher and then the operation with the framing of the ball joint for a year and then it was necessary remove the protective net and I thank the Lord for having me further prolonged life. Other situations which remain to his knowledge and only partly to the mine.

My Religious vocation

I was preparing me to pass my baccalaureate; It was the last year of high school, the fourth. I lived next to the church from Saint Genevieve to Stary Sącz in the boarding school. So I could visit Jesus every day. present in the Blessed Sacrament. I who lived before in Six kilometre distance from Ma Church I thought it was great and I saw it at several times our French teacher, Mademoiselle Anna Hasko. She was already old enough But she didn't get married. She loved us, we his students and taught us very well the French in Nois learning at the same time to love the France where she studied in Paris at the Sorbonne. Some time ago, I had With her a little story. She required us to Learn all the time new words in French and know by heart what they sigified. It happened to me not being well prepared for the lesson and to be that day called to the board; I was weak in the execution of his request and instead of I apologize I expressed this sentence: Madam, I I am Polish and I think I will stay in Poland, I think I do not have need for French. I said a stupidity it is obvious; It had escaped me as if by inadvertab=nce and I expected the worst. Well, not at all! My child said, staring at me with her loving gaze, How can you say such a thing as if you knew your life at advance; you can't know that; You don't know anything about this that it can happen to you. The word of prophetess! I knew it was the Holy Spirit who had spoken at that moment of my future. I repented of my Words apologizing to the whole class and I know now as these French lessons were important for my future once I discovered my true Vocation. The Vocation around the Christmas season of 1970. To know what should I do with my life, I prayed on Lord Jesus during my visits to the church tabernacle right next to my boarding school going to the Mass very early the masters of the season of Advent. Colleagues even managed once to make me A farce knowing me if applied to this attendance. They manipulated my watch and in the middle of the night helped me wake up and see that It was already time to get up and to go to the morning Mass. Arriving at the door I found it still closed while guard knew my desires to go to Mass early on Morning: He heard noises and he went out telling me what hour was; I then understood that it was A joke and in the morning I slept too well to miss this times my Mass. It wasn't grâve! We laughed of my more than normal attendance of the Mass in the week Also in my village before. Just before Christmas the priest of the parish approaches me and offers me to go to Ciężkowice for a week-long retreat for high school students by the Diocese of Tarnów. You will live the holidays with your Family and then you will take the train to Ciężkowice. I register you? Agree why No trying to see? So I went. But I came back in complete confusion. No I don't want to be diocesan priest. I like the cassock, but I don't not to be here but to go somewhere else; to be missionary! Yes, but where and how! I stayed to pray and ask the Lord for some point of reference. The Lord heard me soon enough! Here's how That had happened. After Christmas at beginning of the new year 1971 the DIrector of the High school, Bogdan Lis came to our class to say that Mrs Barabara Kruczek Proffesseur of Polish and Literacy was malad and we are invited to be calm and to do our possible homework in silence. I was sitting next to Kazimierz Kotlarz and I saw that he had come out of his binder envelopes. The idea came to me from Look at to whom he will address his letters. And at the end of a few minutes I saw him write: The Society of Christ in Poznań. During the break I approached it by asking him what this Society was. His reaction was: How? You had watched this that I wrote discreetly! It is not Not well what you did! This is not happening! Pass his anger And I come back to him and I ask the question again, but he has gave a moral lesson: You see that what you did discalibates you so that I give you this information on a Seminar? But listen to me! You're right I didn't not been correct but it interests me; I am in looking for something like that. Is C4 true? Beh Yes! Where are you this afternoon? Here at school the boarding school occupies the school for activities extracurricular. Well I'll bring you the information. And it is came with the pamphlets of the Society of Christ. One articles jumped out at me:The title: Souls Polish women get lost abroad... I I cried and I knew in this instance that it was the Lord Jesus who speaks to me through these words: Come, and follow Me, for I need you! I then write a Letter to the Society's Seminar of Christ in Poznań and the rest went to place. Get to Bac is come. We are three to take the train on 14 August 1971 at Stary Sącz station to Poznań: Kazimierz Kotlarz, Józef Migacz and me.

My Vocation - I am a man-1

All what I wrote about My Spiritual Journey, I have Done in one day: It was yesterday, July 12 2014. From conception to age 19 years old, when by an indiscretion to look at my college to write the address of the Seminar, I received A crucial information for all my life after and until today. I now want to reread my life of children, adolescents and young people, such as introduced himself to me as to grow humanly and Christianly. Two aspects of my identity: of a man and a Christian, I will describe them more slowly than I did. yesterday. I must not import anything, if possible, from the future neither for the content nor for the method. Only the Spirit Saint who knows me perfectly well helps me to recall how I saw at the time between 1952-1971 life and the world, outside, and then my human and spiritual life inside me. I have already written that two words came to mind: work and prayer as characteristics of this stage of my life and the life of my whole Family, especially my Parents Antoni and Janina. We don't work? So what are we going to eat? He There were only a few acres of territory where we planted trees and where vegetables were grown; But the Family needed mostly food and then clothing. The example came from our Parents; they worked incessantly; There was no savings, I mean dêpot. On the contrary: It happened that Dad had to go work for people who have already paid it a lot of what they agreed on. One would run after maturities and debts invaded the Foyer. Everyone should do something to make it better. These were the years difficult in Poland: the war was only at distance of ten years and the Regime imposed in the country behaved according to the rules of war that called cold. The climate in our area was Especially in severe and cold winter, with a lot of snow. The joy of sledding and skiing were our joys children and then in the summer all kinds of games that we invented for fun. On Sundays we do not We didn't work, we rested and played. The school brought us the camaraderie and satisfaction of moving forward on scientific and human knowledge; But with this Precaution: there are things disconcordant with what we tells us at home and in church and this Let us be told at school about history Poland; on war and peace; on the role of a individual and society; on progress and values; A Marxist ideology wanted to pass his messages at all costs; This less in the countryside than in the city; the time of the High School I realized more than before all this. They wanted to see us included in the Socialist youth movement, to escape it, I enrolled in the Scouts. But here too not everything has been clear. We had to carry the flags to the May 1 demo Red; if the grades of the subjects concerning the behaviour were declining. My father was learning the true history of Poland; at the church There was, as in society, a surviilance by collaborators that people suspected and we said This and that between confidences. The Director of the School also went to Sunday Mass always the last and the first to come out after. We didn't know what to doSer. Is he a believer? Yet he is the first secretary of the Gone to the nearby village. Patriotism was not well regarded at school; It was necessary to evolve towards The Socialist International. We are far from freedom and democracy. The question of labour and politics is both asked my human being the most Young age: You can put it that way. The arguments of the part of the Official current also did not fail to be Just; For example: your parents only did two or three Class and you? Watch you are already at The fifth class and it's free! Illiteracy reigned before when it was the capitalists who governed and now there is great progress step? Shows were prepared to ridicule the owners and magnates of ancient times. Once I was appointed to represent one of them and I was ridiculed in This show as a pain sufferer and I had been glued this label of a rich man; It was all the more bizarre because I was a child of the Large family among the poorest in the village. I found this Very perverse and unfair games as a concient human of my dignity. Yes, that's the word: the dignity of the poor. I have already mentioned the case of an unfair salary that I had received and that the Lady had said to me: But you were fed during that time that you worked with us! It was true, but at the same time Time: I should be given more than ten zlotych, I was convinced. We took advantage of the situation of my young age and the shortage of finding work. My base was the Guardian of the Forest and I asked him to give me during the two months of vacation to be able to earn the money to ensure the purchase of things for the school. He hired me without a contract and I was working in the Solo forest in land cleaning so that Small trees can grow sense encumbered. Again, I do not I did not expect to receive so little compared to the work provided; I'm not saying what it was by report to my needs! I was thus learning to at least intimidly defend my dignity of man. I was revolted but I knew that it was impossible to change this only by the Inner discontent. I tried to Talk to people who treated me unfairly. And that is a natural grace given to me by the Creator: intelligently challenging what seems to me unfair. I am a philosophical man! I am sometimes made of this a reproach and I have always considered it as a grace from God. To be able to think, to express myself; oppose and challenge: arguments against arguments; seek to convince all on the reasons of divine rights human rights. This morning of July 13 I received a disappointing message from a Pole about the impossibility of celebrating the Mass for Polish workers in blueberry picking in Ares where they live since the German Chef still has this Sunday ordered to work. Read my testimonial About a modern slavery I posted on this site there is A few days, then you will better understand which fight I had been prepared since my childhood by Divine Providence. The human dignity that We have, and I speak for both the masculine gender and the feminine gender, does not come to us by human will democratic or otherwise, but it comes directly from the God the Creator and this by His Grace. Yes, I am the man by the natural grace of God. We have wanted for a long time, and since the age of enlightenment, pushing God back into the only supernatural realm, which is considered moreover immediately as irrel, virtual, kind of opium for the weak; and we fight the presence of God wherever the seed of ideas about he. It is the same struggle of fascists, Marxists, Darwinists, communists, socialists etc; Enlightenment for this ideology, but we do not say since it is not believed that the rebellious and fallen Angel bears in the Bible the name of Lucifer which means: Light. It would be unmasked and the little ones would understand what Fight it is a question. The man that I am has his rights and God is the first to defend them even against Ourselves sometimes. Adam, where are you with your rights? It is God who first seeks man after his sin and asks him this question: Where are you? I added these three words: with your rights. It's The fruit of my experience with good and with evil, since my childhood. One is tempted to transgress the tiny sign of the Divine Authority for, it is falsely believed, expand your rights! What madness? We note - with its awareness that we had been wrong - and God by his light adds, that one has been deceived, and He comes immediately to seek our repentance to heal us: Adam, where are you with your rights? And who told you that you were naked so that you would be afraid of Me? The Natural grace wants us to humble ourselves while we acknowledge his wrongs and ask for forgiveness. And what does Adam do, when God asks him about his sin? He denounces His wife! She is the culprit! What about her? What is What does it say? What is his answer to the question: Why did you do it? She is also looking for the culprit! She points to the snake and she tries to free herself from her guilt by his own efforts. It's dramatic but God remains calm and takes the side of humans against Lucifer. He is cursed by man: the earth is subject to curse for man's sake; Fenctement human and feminine feelings in relation to masculine will be compromised, but God does not take away any of the rights He had originally given; it adds new rights; the rights to repentance, conversion, forgiveness and to redemption! But these new rights cannot be exercised. than in the new world that God creates in Himself since He is the Holy Trinity and it is a world supernatural: not only invisible but of any other kind and species; There enters only he who believes in the Holy Trinity: the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Faith, hope and charity are the keychains. And there is no other word of pass that be given only the NAME of Jesus. Alone Redeemer with all rights and power in Heaven and on Earth.

My Vocation - I am a man-2

One is philisoph of Nauture. No? Already by laying a Question whatever it is, we are invited or we invites the other to philosophize! The verb comes from love Wisdom (Pilo-Love, Sophia-Wisdom). In human nature: To love is natural and not to love is unnatural! Wisdom is the link between Creator and creature. Otherwise This is not wisdom at all but a sham. The Impostor He is someone who thinks he is a wise man and tries to defy its Creator in various ways by Starting by saying that he is atheist. He would like to perhaps say that it is apolitical or politically Correct, but it amounts to the same: he wants to oppose God. The question of its existence or not is secondary for him. His closest allies are the agnostics! We do not know No, we can't know, nobody knows etc. This person does not know They are the ones who do not know and who would like everyone not to know nothing about it and there would be peace, otherwise there is The results: the wars of religions. Everybody is therefore a philosopher but some are perverts. They did not have not wanting to seek and find the truth, beauty and the good. These three natural values unfortunately do not unanimity as the Lord God wills: the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit: the Holy Trinity. They too are one. Small trinity of human values is the reflection of the Great and Most Holy Trinity. First Divine Creation concerns these Values. Man comes after and is subject to them as the foundation of his dignity. Truth for its reason, beauty for its memory and good for his will. Adam, where in Are you with all this? First question in history and it will also be the last for everyone! Thinking does not make exist as Decartes would like. I think therefore I am, This is the biggest sham in the history of humanity! Modern and modernist times are here proudly and proudly refers to Dragging a lot of people to perdition! All totalitarian and democratic ideologies that give themselves The labels of progress are based on this Decartes' perverse statement: I think and therefore I am. If he said: I love therefore I am, it would be not bad and It wouldn't fool people like it is. unfortunately! Decartes no longer thinks then he is no longer: It is an ideology of death. And they imported Many deaths these ideologies since the revolution French. And they don't stop sowing poisons starting with small children and school programs. In my childhood I was already faced with all this and I know from What am I talking about! I have already mentioned the Darwin's theory and our Director who made us read The subject on the origin of humans from Monkeys. They made us read and in himself he did not believe it Not because he talked about the exceptions he was making part; But the damage done to young people Children's spirits? It didn't matter to him? Who today Ensures all this? The Minister of Education Nationali? Do you think? The "so-called" philosophers like Decartes and others are also responsible for the damage caused to humanity that Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Napoleon and others: God will ask them this same question: Where are you with the Holy Trinity? Great: The Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit and Where Are you with the natural trinity the small: the truth What about beauty and goodness? What was the imposture? of the Decartes philisoph? He wanted to be original and he absolutized a half-truth by spanking

"I" human a competition with the divine "I". To Moses who insisted that God reveal Himself by telling him His Name, God reluctant to do so gave in and gave him says, "I am who I am." Decartes is played with this Revelation by announcing that man can henceforth to do without God; will follow the path of others as Marx, Nitche, Sartre, and so many others Si Decartes said: I think so I am a man, there would be no problem. God has given us in nature a capacity to think? That's good, that's good, but condition that: to begin with, one will not take oneself for God, since This was already the first temptation in the Garden of Eden: You will be like God by knowing the good and evil. We reject the Bible and start again the stupidity of Trust the beast and no longer rely on this that God the Creator had said from the beginning!

My Vocation - I am a man-3

""My Thoughts are not your thoughts and my paths are not not your ways"-says the Lord God. I thank this Lord God to make me naïtre and live during my first 18 years in the countryside!

Philosophize It's good but provided we don't move away not the reality of the things of nature in us and around us. Country life lends itself to it better than life in the city. When people massively turned Displaced to cities the estrangement of many from faith in God and life spiritual and religious in general. These phenomena are known but often explained in a way perverse by the half-truths I denounced Before. Life in the countryside takes us back to the Reality much less virtual than life in the town. Man-made things can make us forget God's creations. The life of animals and trees and plants and vegetables and vegetables small beasts that bite us and birds that fly etc. Already as a child we are amazed at so many realities and then thunder and wind and rain and river and fish... At home there was all this and there was no electricity until I turn 18 as I already have Reported. No TV either; only one day The radio that worked with the batteries. Was there news? Not at all! People when they met told a lot less of anything! In the city it is the trend to the single thought that prevails. Someone says, writes, where does something and everyone in it talk from morning until evening until again Gives. The manipulation of public opinion is done without Let us question anything in the official word or unofficial. What matters is that it works and that it sells well. Audience indicators play a role against the others and we have fun with the game of hide-and-seek of the half- truth as long as we persuade everyone that he There is not and there will not be in time or in THE SPACE THE UNIQUE TRUTH. Human nature is good equipped to defend themselves against this sham General. The Nature of God and the Nature of Man are not on the same order of existence. Who I am Am and you are who are not - said in his interviews mystics God the Father to Saint Catherine of Siena, the Patroness of Europe with the other five: Saint Benedict, St. Cyril, St. Methodius, St. Bridget and St. Edith Stein. The nature of the Creator is beyond all that man is able to think and yet it is above all Natural. The supernatural is created for angels and for men to enter with Him in Covenant and in Communion. Lucifer and his followers among the angels Rebels and evil men have no access to the world supernatural which is called: Grace or Heaven; or as in the Gospel: the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of Heaven... I shares for now my discoveries and my experience than of the natural world of the man that I am; He will come on Time to share "The Christian part of my identity". Values: truth, Beauty and good in the natural world have their respondents In the Supernatural World: Faith, Hope and charity. In the natural world there are values also very important: they are called virtues. Strength, justice, caution and temperance or moderation. Our character lives from these values or disintegrates. We do not have It was not natural to stay on track like the animals. We have the free will to go in the right way Direction of perfection. The man is referred to His responsibility to be the being intelligent. But man's nature is wounded! She needs natural grace and grace supernatural in all areas of his existence. Let's stay here Still on lives and on natural graces the others. Grace never stands in the way of nature; On the contrary, it builds on the natural virtues of its Wonders.

My Vocation - I am a man-4

He The time comes when "I am a man" must take takes into account the particular dimension; This is the Masculine peculiarity that with age and sutrout in adolescence begins to manifest itself more In addition; the human race is bisexual; We are talking today the phenomena of homosexuality and lesbianity, this second expression is perhaps less often used but we know well from what it is about. A single thought forges a path also in This area and ambiguities are not lacking until the highest levels of national assemblies; the the words of the Bible on the abominations of acts of these kinds are forgotten or persecuted. I wrote "deeds" and I did not write "deeds" people"! Human persons cannot be judged by no one but God alone. To me the judgment- says the Lord God. But he too judges us only because of Acts that always begin in thought and sometimes transform into words. When we will share about life Christian, the act of contrition will appear as an essential step for our relationship with God: I confess to Almighty God and to you my brothers that I have sinned in thought in word and by omission... I thank the Lord for being part of the Family Large. I have four brothers and three sisters. The Male and female dual reality, in addition to my Parents: Man and Woman, had introduced himself to me in a familiar way. We learn A lot of things on a daily basis. It's not the same to be male or female; the same dignity but not the same reality! We want Destroy this truth like never before in the history of humanity. Biology has not not much to do about it; It's about all of nature human which is first of all of a spiritual order. Animals have their biology and phisis in the foreground, not humans! God first created the spiritual values and then only angels and men in the image of these Values created: truth, beauty and Ok. That is why after the death of each being alive, including of the human being it smells bad, it stinks and the stench quickly becomes unbearable. The Nature thus gives the signs of corruption by rejecting values created by the Creator. Life supernatural only can bring it remede but one does not disguises by nature to force her to accept the imposture! I am grateful to God for wanting me male-male. I will therefore be able to be called to the service priestly but at the price of celibacy; even more, God willed that I am a consecrated person in the heart of his Church. Religious priest: what a grace, Lord. But we is not there before my age of eighteen Years. Let's go back again to that time of my adolescence. One times I remember a girl who had me more Enormously: I remember his name and surname: Grazyna Krzyzostaniak. She was very beautiful. She gave me completely turned over all my interior; and yet I didn't tell anyone and her. neither. And even a few months before the Bac at the Lycée; This one I told her I liked her and we did some walking, that was before the Lord had revealed His will to me and my vocation; her name was Lidia Baziak. I tell the truth that I loved her and that she loved me I thought; and that our love was chaste. I told him one day during a walk, which I felt to be called to the priesthood and she understood me. I learned after In propt at the Seminary she had married in Moszczenica, next door from Stary Sącz where we were both in high school and in the same class B. Another who was in the Same class but who already knew me before because we did a year together at Gołkowice - eighth experimental class - made me One day surprised by asking me this question where we deposit clothing when entering the premises; it was Marcelline Obrzud: Eh! You, Kazimierz tell me, you came to the Lyceum to enter the Seminary later, No? I do not remember my answer, but his question, if. I was interested in girls and Seminar in a meeting with a psychologist I understood that if this were not the case I could not Apply to become a priest! But I had to make a choice that the grace of God would take charge with the Person of the Blessed Virgin as protector. And I know that's true. The It remains to be said will come on this occasion to speak of Her and all that makes one a Christian and makes choices that stick to it.

My Vocation - I am a Christian-1

In The discovery of my human identity we do not stop step; It is a very dynamic approach. The part Regarding "I am a man" continues to this day to reveal myself and to others, I thinks, for example, about my Slavic mentality and the Polish part of my identity to the extent that is revealed Also the French part that I discover more and more more when most of my earthly existence in the time and also by a permanent formation I live here. This Reflection written and published at the same time Currently I only do it in French; of course That means something; So far I I was writing in Polish first and I did them translated after eventually. I decided to do otherwise; I think I am as much the Pole as the French, I would even say like this: I am a hundred for one hundred Poles and one hundred percent French. The account is not not good? And what do you know? It is a A human affair and not of the mathematical or philosophical domain only. And this is a Christian matter, I will tell you. Ensures; If you read me to the end you will understand, in Anyway I hope so! A human affair and a matter Christian. Can they be separated? What God has united that Man does not separate him! We are used to hear this word in relation to the marriage in which she was delivered after the debate on a eventual divorce between the Pharisees and Jesus in the Gospel. But this Word has a much more far-reaching impact. wide. And I believe that here it has its place and its place. legitimacy. Christian initiation begins at Baptism and asserts itself in Confirmation; it needs Reconciliation and the Eucharist as Nurriture so that the Holy Spirit may shape us to adoption by the Father in Christ as his own children and citizens of Heaven. At the age of seven I started my catechism and at the age from the age of nine I received communion for the first time, after confessing before the priest Catholic. Oh! What conversations we had, the Lord Jesus and I on the way back from the church to distance of six kilometers! I quickly took a liking to Communion and I said to myself: it would be nice if I could receive communion. more often. I didn't dare to think of being a priest One day, even if this thought touched me sometimes. That's impossible. You're from the family very poor; too poor to study; and others Children who come do not help this situation... So I I didn't really believe it was possible, but once I remember to have organized with other children behind The barn "A mass as in the church on priest did it" and it amused the gallery. During difficulties in relationships with my classmates Some laughed at me, saying, "Bigôt too pious" etc. In the church having remained closer to the Altar when with the advancement in The age of the other boys found normal moving further and further away towards the exit, some had reproached me for getting stuck! It was Already small trials to endure for the name of Jesus, I thought to myself. And then I could be more concentrated and gathered in invisible things but very real. Confession had the effect guilt-free so formidable; I was a sinner and I knew that without Jesus I could do nothing when the Demons mobilized to keep me away from my Vocation of man and Christian. All this was really serious. I fell and got upais, I was falling again and I was getting up again... This ICON IMAGE by which one I was dazzled seemed to speak to me without that I hear words: my answer was always the same: Jesus, I trust in You! I would like to be children at heart but I lived too far away of the Church to fulfill its requirements. I thought naively that it disqualified me from being able to one day be priest! Which was completely false; but I discovered only once accepted in the Seminar at the age of 19. Life Liturgical and parish during my childhood and adolescence filled my life with joy truly. I loved being at the Office and observe the liturgical actions that the Priests accomplished. My memory of the parish priests and vicars is not not gone from my vivid memory; On the contrary, there are plenty of flashes of all kinds. Father Michał Orczyk and his big eyebrows and his long sermons, and one Sunday his gesture of driving a woman not properly dressed back to the door of the church etc. The funeral of this Parish priest have engraved themselves in my memories and the arrival of the new parish priest Jan Stach who ended his prayers in prolonging them in infinii... This parish priest had patience incredible. Once there was someone's funeral and the family had come forward with a Grand rétard. I said to myself, the priest will reproach them that; But no, not at all, he started driving The procession as if nothing had happened all simply. He had a peaceful character... When he told me Seen coming asked at the age of 18 on certificate for confirmation in the parish of Stary Sącz he has said: Already you want to get married? The Vicars? The first from my memories: Adam Machnik.. I learned that he was went to Brazil as a missionary... It had me impressed.. The other one called Czosnek Zbigniew? I'm not sure about his first name, another Kazimierz Zaucha; He had the same first name as me and he knelt before the Tabernacle with his hands clasped together; That made the biggest impression on me; his Time in the Holy One Eucharist; I wanted to imitate him in that... I had taken A decision to this effect: Before the Tabernacle I kneels with my hands clasped together as if in prayer. Jesus Christ is here... And then this priest who also marked my life because of his abandonment of priesthood for a woman when I was 14; I do not retain in the remember that his first name: Marian. He loved racing at bicycle... and apparently he had problems with celibacy. Father Jan Stach left his post because of the age limit. It was a new rule introduced after the Second Vatican Council. The Parishionians do not I didn't understand that. Why should he go and look for where live? Bishop Ablewicz has decided so and he must go. He went to Stary Sącz, I told him Visited. He wasn't complaining, he accepted it as the God's will. When he heard that I wanted to become a priest, he confided in me: "Kaziu (Kazimierz in shape) friendly) in priestly life it is most of the time the Exhausting pastoral work, but from time to time there are Small moments of glare as if the sky opened all at once in front of you and then after you are ready to endure everything for Christ and for his Church." My last memory of Jan Stach is his presence in my family home on the day of my Mass of Premise. A new parish priest was already Installed at the time: the abbot Stefan Tokarz who is resident mintenant of the Parish, fromthen that the current parish priest: Father Kazimierz Koszyk took on this position. It allowed the previous Parish priest remains in the parish as a resident and confessor. And everything is going well. This should also be done this way. with Father Jan Stach, but there is no turning back and then his grave is in the cemetery of our Parish when same. This is what has remained gratified In my hearts among other things with regard to my youth and my Parish.

My Voction - I am a Christian-2

I I realize that to describe my first shift Of life I wrote four chapters under the title "I am a man" and only one for now under the Title "I am a Christian". It will balance out; but I must make a small remark: I lived the things of the world supernatural at the time without being able to explain to me In those days - I didn't need to do that As now I can, I must and I want to do it for first give thanks to God and to bear witness For my brothers and sisters in humanity and for my brothers and sisters the Christians. This new world supernatural had opened up to me on the day of my Baptism and I was lifted to the level of the royal throne of Jesus on the day of my First Communion. I remember our interviews perfectly well Mystical. Between Jesus and me there were links to Done real but surntural. How to explain it today when two subsequent quarters have been added So in my life 36 years as a religious priest? For the Comunion, I recall it on the occasion of the Sollenity of the Blessed Sacrament, I did not understand anything more after this First Time despite all the studies I had done. It's not a matter for human reason; it is completely beyond it; one life and one progresses in a mystical knowledge that concerns the The domain of love and the epérance of a This vision is now carried out only by the Christian faith. I say Christian and I feel sorry for other religions. The Holy Trinity is inconturnable Dear human friends. The supernatural world is not elsewhere than in her; in the bosom of the Father, by the Spirit Holy and thanks to the incarnation of the Son of God alive and true, the One God as his Son is One and Only is their COMMON SPIRIT. The unity of God is at the same time time and beyond all time its uniqueness. Worldwide Supernatural there is only one way to get us there: this way is Jesus Christ. He said it himself very expressly: I am the way, the truth and life. I thank him for revealing this royal secret to me already in my childhood and to dazzle myself with his Personality Unique and amazing. The true God and the true Man. And he had me given to be and become the true man and the true Christian to the glory of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Every time I entered my church Parish the words were offered to my eyes and to my heart: Niech będzie Bóg uwielbiony- Praise be to God! This sentence is always written above the altar on the wall. The supernatural world has become my homeland while waiting for the Sky. My earthly homeland had to give him place:The first place for the one that will last forever. The second until the last day of history. History of this second Fatherland Poland there was the first millennium of this premiere in 1966. I had then 14 years. Cardinal Primate Stefan Wyszyński by his the Novena of Preparation designed during all three years when he was interned by the Order of the Soviet-Socialist Government of Poland between 1953-1956 Once released, he performed a prodigy at the name of God and in honor of the Holy Mother of God, Queen of Poland. The Copy of his IMAGE circulated for 9 years at across Poland from one diocese to another and from one parish to another. When the image has was arrested and interned, only the Symbolically continued the path, the symbolic word is for all those who do not recognize the supernatural world. We ChretiWe knew that the Virgin Saint Our Lady of Częstochowa visited our parish as well as in the outside there was only the Frame and the Candle Pascal signs of Christ his Son and Our Lord. Talking about the world supernatural where the Holy Trinity is constantly worshipped by all the Creatures that live there is not one common language. Angels and Archangels, Saints and Saints of God and their Communion with us and all Souls of Purgatory which is part of this supernatural world all exercise their ministries according to God's will. We come out of This supernatural world by a grave sin and we can be reintroduced by Holy Confession. These truths are accessible to all humanity during its pilgrimage earthly and preached by the Church.

My Vocation - I am a Christian-3

Our Homeland is in Heaven. This pithy phrase from the Letter of Saint Paul the Apostle, I certainly did not know her in the time of my young age; but I was already living it fully by striving to be a worthy citizen of this New and eternal homeland, entirely filled with peace of Christ and joy in the Holy Spirit. Christ Jesus there is this One King of the visible and invisible Universe and the Blessed Virgin, the Mother of God and our Mother is, by the grace of God with which She is filled and full, the Queen glorious of Heaven and Earth. The supernatural world is not Separated from the natural world: the latter is assumed in the first but without mixing or confusion to the image of the Incarnation which is the basis of it in what is calls the Hypostatic Union carried out in the Christ, Son of the Eternal Father and Son of Mary, the most beautiful. The place of the only Mediator between God and men held Man, Jesus the Christ, is not in competition the place that the Blessed Virgin Mary received by choice and the gratuitous decision of the Holy Trinity in the Sovereign Arrangements God had already made in the beginning and even before the Creation of Heaven and the Earth, visible and invisible things. Yes, it is true, that I would be unable to make those statements at that time. of my youth as I do now here, but I affirm and I declare to know it and to live it in a way simple as a child of God that I was and that I I am still today. I hope to keep this dignity of the Citizen of Heaven until the last day of my Land pilgrimage to be welcomed in the Celestial homeland for eternity. Jesus, I trust in You! Blessed Virgin Mary, Help me! I thank after God, of course, the Saint Madonna! Already in a great Image of His Heart Immaculate that my Parents posted on the wall of the bedroom - the window separating the other Image-that of the Sacred Heart of Jesus! Our house earthly became the antechamber of this Heaven of which I have spoken. Just look! We felt like we were loved and the gaze coming out of the eyes of these two Persons: a Divine and the other Deified Human: pierced our hearts of a ray of the Sun, whatever the situation at the outside in the natural world. In the other bedroom there was still Her in her Icon of Our Lady of Częstochowa! And then Saint Anthony! My Dad's Boss and My Dad's Boss our parish, it had its place there. He also held a Child, the same that Our Lady of the Sanctuary of the Claire Montagne! Jesus, little divine and human Child on the side of his two Natures, but as a Person only Divine: the Person of the Son of God, sorry for the Jews who have it is difficult to accept it and for Muslims it is same: You must sooner or later recognize it to be saved. I have nothing more important to announce you! Saint Joseph seems absent from the side of the Images, but giving the name to their third son after Ignatius and Casimir, our brother Joseph received A mission to be his living copy. The dad being carpenter as Jesus' adoptive father and the chaste bridegroom of the Blessed Virgin, it will be understood easily that Saint Joseph held the presumptive place in our Family of ten Persons, Parents and Children together. The Memorable meetings our life was in especially the feast of Christmas and Easter, well obviously. Already preparing for One and the otherIt was always something new and unforgettable. We don't go out the same after everything had always gone too much quickly and we had to move forward waiting for the next time when we will be a little bigger! Visits of the houses with the nursery Built in wood or costumes of the three wise men and a star Made all of light thanks to batteries electrical! We were a dozen young children and teenagers to do this in the winter nights and we returned tired and joyful to have announced the Good News of Salvation! It was like an internship in the meantime the Seminar; I speak for what concerns me, but all this was great.

My vocation - I am a Christian-4

I Just come back - on July 14 - from the chapel of Saint John Paul II, in the presbytery of the Parish of Sainte Eulalie in Bordeaux. I celebrated Holy Mass there for the France at 11 a.m. I had said in the week it is up to the parish priest to announce it and I do not know whether he did it or not; What I do know is that I was all alone celebrating it speaking according to the natural world of course, as I have explained in previous chapters. I there So come back to continue this sharing with unknown readers, but known to God and - I believe - to the Virgin Mary. I have Order on reminiscences concerning the Feast of Christmas. Now let's talk about Easter. The Lent always marked our parish existence thanks to secular practices: The Way of the Cross and Gorzkie Zale in the Presence of the Blessed Sacrament and with the Sermon on the Passion of Christ. Gorzkie Zale, they are the moving songs of the Meditations of Sufferings and of Merciful Love with Our Lady of Sorrows who offered his own sufferings in atonement for sins of all humanity and of all times by God's choice and grace which, after having constituted Mother of the Savior now by decision The ruler of this Savior constituted him as the Mother of Humanity saved in and through this Jesus Christ in the Supreme and Free Act of the Holy Trinity. Yes, I recognize once again that I would be unable to To express myself in this way at this time of my young age. But I affirm and declare that I was already living it. thus thanks to this Holy Trinity in particular by the Holy Spirit. And yet I wasn't yet confirmed, which will be done at the age of my Eighteen. My youth I lived while in the Vatican the Council proclaimed by Saint Pope John took place XXII. And when he was called to God in 1963 it was Pope Paul VI who took it up and continued with some 2500 Fathers of the Second Vatican Council. We s4est fast Reporting on external change: the use more strong of the Polish language and then the Altar turned towards the Liturgical Assembly at 180 degrees. And, at the time I didn't know it - the Week Saint was also particularly renovated. For us the young guests to attend it was almost normalm according to what we learned from the course events according to the Gospels.But for the Adults and seniors it was a kind of revolution; spiritual and strong evolution- Let us put it this way. The guards at the tomb of Christ who is there exposed in the Blessed Sacrament covered with a veil we I said, I say it for what would conceive me: So now to from Friday night-Jesus Christ? In what condition Is? Death? Since we are waiting for his Resurrection! Or alive? Since exposed in the Blessed Sacrament. It is not more to the tabernacle which is open and empty! But this Exhibition of the Sacrament what does it mean? I didn't have the answer until the time of the Seminary when I was finally able to solve this "problem". As much as the share immediately - by entering the heart of the Mystery Eucharistic, this Great Mystery of Faith. Thank you again - the opportunity is right - I thank the Lord for being baptized and welcomed into the Catholic Church and Roman. Protestants and other Christian denominations have received encouraging signs from this Church during and after the Second Vatican Council; but they are far away at a great distance from what I discovered in Asking me - in the Lord - this question mentioned more high. What happens at Holy Mass? I note at the passage that in turn in the West many of the Catholics have made the way of the Protestants; not the path of Return expected from "separated" Christians But the path away from reality of the Eucharistic Mystery so well explained by the doctor "angelic" Saint Thomas Aquinas by example: but by the Magisterium of the Church and the services of the Popes throughout the centuries. No one is came to celebrate Holy Mass for the France because many no longer see this One Mystery to be actualized before our eyes but in the supernatural world, of which I had spoken in previous chapters. The supernatural world is full of mysteries. Today We don't like mysteries. The general trend is to link the mysteries with ignorance and fight it This ignorance by revealing the secrets we want confuse with mysteries. The mysteries of the world supernatural are not secrets but on the contrary: Revelations and Divine Revelations made for humans to believe and be Saved. The sacraments mean revealing signs. As the Old Testament Prophecies were Warning Signs. In addition to being Signs Revealing, the sacraments of the Church, which are given by Christ, are Realist Signs. They realize what they mean through the Sovereign Action of the Holy Spirit in Christ Jesus and in his Church that He is building on the faith and witness of the Apostle Peter according to what He had promised him near Caesarea of Philip after Peter declared: You are Christ, the living Son of God!

The Society of Christ - The Arrival

After having told in shorthand condensed my life of man and the Christian that I am before I knew my new family which is the Society of Christ, I will Resume my story to the events of the year decisive for all my human and Christian life: They This is the year 1971. Indiscretion guilty on my part, as I had done very well know, my classmate at the Lycée Général to Stary Sącz,Kazimierz (Casimir) Kotlarz - who is like me religious priest in the said Congregation in the City Stargard near Szczecin in northwestern Poland, This indiscreet curiosity - I admit - has allowed me to finally discover my path in life, which should first pass through a large city of Poznań, where finds the General House of our Congregation. After calming down from his anger Kazimierz Kotlarz revealed to me that there is Joseph Migacz, sitting right in the bench in front of the two of us, his comrades from the Monastery of the Poor Clares who have their Cloister in Stary Sącz is also preparing to enter after the Bac at this Seminary in Poznań. In fact, in this At that time, I didn't know it was a Religious Congregation and therefore Vows: poverty, chastity and obedience etc. I only thought that it was something for me, because since my visit to Ciężkowice where the recrusting took place candidates for the Diocesan Seminary of Tarnów, I was in complete disarray and I asked to the Lord to give me a sign what should I do in the next future. At the beginning of the school year leading up to at the Bac I sent the documents for the School Polytechnic of Wrocław, a city in southwestern Poland, to become an electrical engineer or electronics and I registered for the course preparatory with the Professor of Physiqe to pass my Bac of this subject of choice. The sign being given, I went to her to tell her I was changing the field for Chemistry; because the books of this subject were thinner than those of the phisica! It sounds strange but It was true and I kept secret the reason that made me a secret. pushed to do so; I mean: Wroclaw for Poznan. Kazimierz and Joseph, my new confidants and soon brothers in the Community of Christ - Joseph Migacz is a priest religious Societas Christi and he works in Australia too For a long time that I have been France since 1982, my confidants I said told me about their adventures with the militia of the State since the day at the age of 14 years they were embarked in a police car after be reported by the Poznań Station guard; they were minors and alone at 4 a.m. in the morning. They were summoned from time to time to divert them. of this path of the Seminary and they were even slapped that they would not have their Bac if they persisted. They urged me to be discreet; otherwise no Bac probably. The change of matter For the preparation on my part, it seems to me well revealed at the Faculty of Questions: and they doubted my maneuvers since on the day of distribution of the Bac certificates, the Head of our class told me: Do not forget to invite me to your Mass of Firstfruits; Which I did seven years later. The time left to the Bac and initially for the Seminar we close and I got to know the church more closely of the Cloister founded by Saint Kinga in 1280. She was beatified a long time ago but canonization even if it was justified n'didn't tear away. It will be done 28 years later when Pope John Paul II visited Stary Sącz who was on the routes of his walks of the time he was the Bishop of Krakow and he declared Kinga Sainte. All three of us passed our Bac and the day in the middle of August,on the eve of the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary we are are found after 9 hours by train at Poznań.Thus from the Małopolska Region (Lesser Poland) we we are transferred to the capital of the Region of Wielkopolska (Greater Poland) for the time of Higher Studies in Philosophy (two years) and Theology (four years). But before all this it was the Novitiate that was waiting for us first, not far from Poznan at a distance of about ten kilometers - in Kiekrz at the Religious of the Congregation of Our Lady of Mercy who have loaned premises for this purpose at the request of the Society of Christ. Later I learned that it is from this Congregation of Religious that was even the Saint Faustina and that she also did in his life a passage of service to Kiekrz so in this Monastery. And she talks about it in her Little Journal.

The Society of Christ - Probation

The Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary to begin the Great Adventure we could not choose better than this. Some weeks of probation to explain what it was that the Congregation and what it was like the Novitiate. Thanks to the "Blessed" fault" which I had committed in January of this Year 1971, I finally find myself finding some Responses to a discomfort felt at Ciężkowice during a closed retreat organized by the Diocesan Seminary of my Church which is in Tarnów: The Lord wants me as a religious priest and in the Congregation founded forty years ago previously by Cardinal August Hlond, Primate of Poland who designated to do this by becoming the first member of this new Congregation Father Ignacy Posadzy, the priest of the Diocese of Poznań and the first candidates for this Society have redeemed at the Castle of Hrabina Potulicka in Potulice to start the first novitiate in 1932 and make their first vows in 1933, the Year of Redemption. The Founder of the Societas Christi himself was a religious priest of the Foundation of St. John Bosko, the Salesians, whose charism finds its origins in France in the Person of the Holy Bishop from Geneva, Saint Francis de la Salle, a native of the Savoy which later will be part of the France as it is the case until today. As for consecrated life and of the vows I knew almost nothing before; I knew a little bit what It was to be a diocesan priest But even in this matter we are like a little child who is asked to trust and let himself guided by the Holy Spirit and by the Superiors religious. Father Jan Jabłoński was chosen by the newly elected Superior General in this position, Father Wojciech Kania, as Master of the Novices and his Auxilier Father Joseph Bakalarz. Ora and labora - we can say - this universal motto borrowed from the Bénédictains became ours. Candidates at the Novitials arrived one after the other to do in From time to time a large group of thirty men. One day in the evening, after exhausting work around the harvest wheat and the refreshing bath in the lake called Jezioro Kierskie named after the village of Kiekrz, it was found that one of us hadn't returned At home. The research revealed that he had drowned in the waters of this lake. It was an accident: Stanislas Ptaszkowski probably submerged too fast being very warmed like all by the sun: that day and the cramps did not allow him to escape from the claws of death. I remember his father who is came to pick up and take his body for the funeral in his Parish in Ptaszkowa in southern Poland not far from Nowy Sącz, so my Region of Małopolska. Her father sad but very calm said a sentence I remembered forever: With my wife we gave it to the Lord; the Lord took him to himself; that its will be praised. God has given to this family the grace of a nun and a new Member of our Congregation in the person of Antoni Ptszkowski who currently works in Argenteuil near of Paris and for several mandates is the Econôme of our Franco-Spanish Province. For All Saints' Day of the same year some Novices of the same Region have were chosen to pray at his tomb in Ptaszkowa and I was one of them. The Camionette at this Occasion went around to visit some maisoNovices who made the trip and mine was visited in total surprise very late at night; and I found for the first time at home The electricity had been Plugged in with lamps still without any decoration all naked. I was a little ashamed in front of my comrades that Our home there was so much delay in the progress that is taking place saw everywhere go especially in this new Region that we discover: Wielkopolska! The beginning of the Christianity in Poland began precisely in this Region in the second half of IX century. First church dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary is located in Poznań and Gniezno - which with Poznan was twinned under a single Archbishop Cardinal Auguste Hlond until the end of the second World War is a Cradle of Poland on the religious coast as also on the political side by the Grace of God.

The Society of Christ - the Novitiate

In The Feast of the Archangels: St. Michael, St. Gabriel and St. Raphael we have begun our canonical novitiate. Ora And Labora continues. The Chapel is filled several times in the Day, there are Conferences on the spirit of the Congregation and its Statutes; initiation to life consecrated and the rudiments of the spiritual life according to the Gospel of Christ. Work in the fields and in the barn with cows and other animals, the construction of a bassain and the development of attics to make it a recreation room; Walks in two by two or more to get to know each other better and enter into the community fraternity in order to be united in a religious family according to the motto that our Founder has appointed us: Between us he has no distance: Między nami nie ma dali! There is a joy of being together and there are also clashes from time to time. These are men in their twenties who aspire to forge an original personality each. From various places in Poland, one of us even came from very far since from Australia. Alas it is so original that one day the Master of Novice, the Father Jan Jabłoński, took him on his motorcycle and deposited it at the General House from Poznan to be sent back to his house family in Australia. Three of us were already Diocesan seminarians who applied to become religious and receive ordination as a member of the Society of Christ for Polish Emigrants. This is the first time I've written the name complete of our Congregation, to touch the charism that is the special and precise gift that the Lord gives to candidates who come knocking on the door of our Community. In June of 1972 we took bicycles to go very far north to Goleniów for funeral of Father Stanisław Rut and we visited Szczecin and our Parish of the Sacred Heart. We are decreasing in number Unfortunately. Wiesław, one of them being part of Our battalion, did not have to make a great road to do so; he was from Poznań. A tired day After picking potatoes he had sitting on his basket filled with this product and expressed His disappointment: I thought we will soon sent abroad and I realize that it will not happen so quickly and in addition we are made traviller so hard that I have neither habit nor strength for that; and he left us. I myself also failed to do so! And I thank the Lord for keeping me even in this new Family, his Family, the Society of Christ. And here's how. In autumn with the mists And the first signs of the cold, I got sick and stayed several days at the Infermerie. One took care of me, there were visits from colleagues and consolations expected and welcome. Far from my first Family feeling nostalgia after them: Parents, brothers and sisters, I was waiting for the major visit of the Master of Novitiate and finally on the third or fourth day it is came to see me. You are apparently too weak to aspire to be a missionary; Just imagine: we're sending you to Brazil and there the climate you know it's not like in Poland etc. So think well and realize that very probably this is not your place; I tell you, better is worth making good choices than being in charge of the others... and he's gone... It was like a thunder! The same day in the evening I programmed my leak; I will leave here without warningr person; in the night. I packed my suitcase and went out of the Infirmary to Lead to the exit door taking advantage of the fact that all were in the Chapel celebrating a Rosary with the Exhibition of the Blessed Sacrament if I do not Don't deceive. How? You'd go out like that, without greeting me and Say goodbye? I knew that this soft inner voice and strong at the same time had something to say to me: I approached the small sacristy and saw that he There is no one I am there to hear: or make myself a following thought: Why this precipitation! First sleep another night or two and Then you'll see what you do! I did it and in the morning I had a little trouble remembering what had happened past the day before. Oh, yes. I was angry against the Master of Novices who instead of granting me a Consolation had rather found me too weak to become a missionary. So what am I going to decide? Lord Jesus you want me here or elsewhere; maybe I have to go to Tarnów to become anyway A diocesan priest? And an idea that comes as a little bird: What if it was a simple update The test? This Master of Novices will have to say one day who he thinks can make his vows and who can't. If he comes back to the charge then you'll see... He is never again spoken to me in this way. It was my secret and his; Nor have I ever asked him this question: Why did you act like that. After twelve months of Niviciat, I was admitted to say my wishes on September 29, 1972. And I went in at the Major Seminary to study with a view to being One day ordained a priest!

The Society of Christ - The Seminary

The first Seminary is the Family with the Parish of Housing and the time to become a man and a Christian whose experiences I have shared such as the fruits of natural and supernatural divine graces in Collaboration with the free will given to each human person at conception and birth for which is natural graces and Baptism when it This is the beginning of the supernatural life that has absolutely Need supernatural graces to develop up to the measure of maturity that bears the name holiness. Everything is grace - rightly said Saint Thérèse of Lisieux indicating the very Simple towards this holiness to attain: trust! Second Seminary so for me began in October 1972 when with the others I received the Index Academic in the hands of the Rector of the Seminary on Professor Father Bogusław Nadolski. For two years of philosophical matter and four years of theological subject. Here were the Philosophical fields studied: Introduction to philosophy, Metaphisics, Theodycea, Psychology, Philosophical Antropology, Ethics, Philosophy of religion, Philosophy of nature, History of philosophy, theory of knowledge, formal logic, General methodology of science. Readerships: Latin language, Greek language, English language, French language. Philosophical studies, God helped me to Finish them with the note "very good". Glory be to to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit! And here were the Theological fields studied: Introduction to Sacred Scripture, Biblical Archaeology, Sacred Scripture of the Old Testament, Holy Scripture of the New Testament, Patrology, Liturgical , Fundamental Theology, Dogmatic Theology, Ecumenical Theology, Moral Theology, Ascetic Theology, Theology General Pastoral Theology, Pastoral Theology of emigration, Canon Law, History of the Church, Catholic Social Ethics, Pedagogy, Catechetical, Homiletics, History of sacred art, Liturgical chant, Pastoral medicine. Theological studies, God helped me finish them with the note "very well." I applied to get to The Catholic University of Lublin a Bachelor's degree in the Faculty of Theology and, thank God I got it on March 15, 1978 with the result Final "very good". There are of course plenty of memory of this period of my life; Studies were only a part of the life of the Seminary; essential but only a part; Activities spiritual and manual work for example in the service of meals, nettoyages of the premises and rooms that we changed every six months with new roommates (we were usually by three occupants of the same room) and Sport of course, outings, parish internships and return to the Family House for Christmas time and the New Year, and then a month's holiday with the Parents and a other in Designated Parish in the territory of North-West Poland or not far from Wroclaw where trod the parishes served by the parish priests members of our Congregation for example in Ziembice, in Pyrzyce or Szczecin where our most common parish was located. large of 30 thousand parishioners under the title of the Sacred Heart which is today a Shrine of the Sacred Heart for the Diocese of Szczecin. As for Football I was the goalkeeper of our Seminary team and played in the Championship between the Major Seminaries sometimes with un some success! Thanks to the Team! Letting the ball pass was always for me a catastrophe. And who likes to lose? I will not talk about the subjects studies neither philosophical nor theological, but I will share here some research and discoveries I had worked to obtain this license mentioned in the middle of this chapter. These are the Liturgy and in particular of liturgical creativity according to the authors who had dealt with this subject in French. But it will be in the next chapter. I will conclude this one by referring to the Rector who was in this position when I Finished my studies: It was the father Edward Szymanek. To him and to the entire Coprs Professoral of the Seminar of that time a big "Thank you" for the service rendered to us. And also to all Persons of the Accompagement Team and Administrative Services and all Others. This same for the University of Lublin.

My Vocation - I am a priest

Towards the end of the Seminary of the Society of Christ each seminarian is required to search the area of interest and under the direction of the Professor of the field. For me the choice was on the Liturgy and the Professor of Liggical Father Bogusław Nadolski agreed to direct me and then to the University of Lublin in the same field it was the Professor Father Wojciech Danielski who accepted to be the Promoter of my Memorial on "The creativity in the liturgy". I was interested to the Catholic Liturgy for obvious reasons. In As a Catholic priest I will have to celebrate regularly the Great Eucharistic Mystery, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Personally I was not not initiated to celebrate it in language Latin. The post-conciliar changes meant that the Office of the Present Time (Breviary) as well as the Liturgy Eucharistic and Sacramentary have been since that time (1972) celebrated in vernacular languages: en Polish for Poles, French for French etc. We already had at the time heard about the problems of opposition to this new deal; Archbishop Marcel Lefêbvre began to be known also in Poland. I was reading French-language Qrticle who talked about creativity in the liturgy and I composed a Memoir to this topic. From the perspective of the past time I recognize that the subject was problematic and still is When we realize the abberrations suffered by the Holy Mass through initiatives taken by some priests considering that the faithful have the right to everything understand what happens at Mass. This is not as simple as some sorcerer's apprentices imagined You might say. Coming to France to serve the Church of this country I was quickly realizing that people do not understand still not what this great Mystery is and still less when they were able to experience changes and improvisations arbitrariness and experimentation carried out without any control. That I don't think that Monsignor Lefêbvre's traditionalists are right to reject the New Rite of the Mass. But we can cołtake their fears. Without rejecting the Rite either. Ancient: the motu proprio of Benedict XVI is a good soution I think so. This allows me to continue here The subject of chapter 4 of "I am a Christian" In new form since May 31, 1978 I became a priest by the Presbyteral Ordination that is to me came by the service of the Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Poznań Monsignor Marian Przykucki at the request of the Rector of our seminary Father Edward Szymanek. One year before I was ordained a deacon of the Church Catholic and after another year, I Voice a priest! The journey of Probation, Novitiate, Seminar with its philosophical studies and theological and a Bachelor's degree at the University of Lublin, allowed me to ask to be ordained priest. But to tell the truth it is not not like this to look at the Sacraments as I have already tried to do this by going back to the Easter Mystery of Christ and His Gifts and Signs of three genera: Annunciators, Revelators and Directors. You never have any right to ask for that. It is only necessary to have a Vocation for this from the by the Lord. We were about thirty men at start Probation and Novitiate and yet we were not than eleven to receive priestly ordination after seven years of preparation. One day at the Seminar, I remember, a seminarian with whom I shared the room was listening to the music When the doorbell called us to a celebration in the evening. His thought blew me away: Oh those Bells! We are asked all the time to go and pray we Fed up! He didn't stay long after the Seminar; He went to do something else. On the other hand, the brother of my sister-in-law from Kłaj near Krakow made all the studies necessary for the Seminar of Tarnów and was not ordained priest even if he wanted it so much and he is remained single until today. I I feel sorry for him, Mirosław Kasprzyk, and surely still others that could not be ordered. It is the Lord who decides this or His Church in communion with Him. It is a great mystery that the Priesthood. I now know what I'm talking about after years of living it; but as long as you are not a priest we know almost nothing about it! It's the same to be a mother or father; It looks the same; although here the Decision is rather one hundred percent that of Christ! Our response is to let yourself be done and to follow Him. I want the do until the last breath and I ask Him for this grace to be able to do it! I'm always overwhelmed that He I chose to be his disciple without any merit from me; in his great mercy. Misericordias Domini in Aeternum cantabo.

My Vocation - I am a deacon

Ordination Diaconal preceded odination Presbyteral of about one year. I was ordained a deacon in May 1977. I remember from this year in particular the internship pastoral care at the Parish of Saint John the Baptist and the joy of Baptize the first children in my ecclesial service. It's true that reading the Gospel and doing the Homily is for a new Deacon that I was brought me in in an unforgettable experience during this internship and then in returning to my parish of origin I quickly realized that it is no longer the same. The mystery is there. The Christ took hold of my "self" and started to act without destroying myself but I I realized quite quickly that it is grace that acts and Not me. I was comparing the two facts for example. During my internship pastoral care in summer 1976 in Ziębice le Curé asked me to prepare the Homelie and the say after he has read the Gospel. So I have it done and I was happy but comparing this contentment with what I felt now, a year later, I saw the following difference and I had one little shame. This satisfaction of giving the homily and Pronouncing it publicly sends me back to myself and was selfish in herself. It was even more blatant a few months later during Christmas in my parish of origin. The parish priest proposed to me to sermon at Midnight Mass. You're close by of your diaconal ordination then I authorize you to do it. In my Parish! In front of all those who know me and before my Family and at Midnight Mass! One might expect To congratulations and words of pride: it was Ok; thou hast spoken well; We were all moved etc.. And it was the case but after ordination Diaconal I had reread in memory those moments and I was even more ashamed of it in the case of Ziębice. The Lord thus gave me lessons in my conscience! Tone "I" will prevent "my grace" to act. I was then beginning to learn how to to be and become a disciple. I will go even further "the grace" moves away from man, from Christian, of the deacon and the priest and religious whom I am, if "my self" does not annihilate itself before the glory of the Lord on His own initiative; it is to Tell by the truth of who is who and who does what? You will know the truth and the truth will set you free. If anyone wants to be my disciple that he renounces himself that he takes his own Cross every day and let him follow me. That's what is said clearly and clearly by Jesus and that I exprerhyme every day especially since my diaconal ordination and that of which followed him within a year: ordination Priestly. Let's stay on this first which is also for all life and yet we do not think about it and sometimes we forget it Completely once you are a priest. Le Christ Servant yet did not stop washing the feet (human consciences) once glorified; have Only pretagated this service with his own: receive the Holy Spirit to whom you will forgive their sins they will be forgiven. I remember thinking to this new diaconal service that deacons do not exercise step; I was wondering why? The answer lay in the mystery of the priesthood; As a deacon I could not Really know. If I pretended to know her this would once again be "my self" and not "grace" who would act. It sounds complicated everything I say and I write there, but it is not if the Grace is there and my self diminishes. What Saint Said Jean-Baptiste: Now He must grow and that I Decreases. I personally think that this Predecessor of the Messiah had a mission of Deacon in the New Testament and a mission of the Prophet and Priest of the Old Testament. I put forward this hypothesis on the occasion of reflect on the Permanent Diaconate in those who are calls thus and in all those who begin a day of a New ordination to be called priests or bishops and who are also always the permanent Deacons. We were allowed to be able to give Communion at Holy Mass somewhat. time before being ordained deacons. There were the Minor services: readership and acolyte - and then we were says: You are going on a pastoral internship for Holy Week and Feast Easter; You will be able to help the priests to give the Holy Eucharist. I think it was - I remember well an emotion really impossible to describe until today. Tap the Body of Christ with my hands and to nourish the People of God with Bread who came down from Heaven. It never left me at every Mass is also a diaconal service. Once a deacon Again there I felt "the grace" of the New state. I was already giving Communion before But "my self" took advantage of the opportunity to play of my emotions. The taste of power what! Yes! If the State grace is not commlètement recognized as it is and what it is human glory invaded us fast enough to bring us even to a certain pride; Let us tell us things as they are; Let's not be Hypocrites; the mother of John and James who came to Jesus to ask him for the highest possible places at his cherish sons and a lesson to take and To learn. We do not have in itself a natural taste to serve but rather to serve oneself or to be served. Jesus Himself openly declares in contradiction with this attitude: the Son of Man Did Not Come to Be Served but to serve and give his life as a ransom for the multitude. Diaconal service and priestly service are clearly there. defined, in this short and pithy sentence. At the premiere part of the sentence corresponds to the Permanent Diaconate and the second, the priesthood.

My Vocation - I am a religious

I have not forgotten once ordained deacon and then ordained priest that I am since the Feast of Archangels: Saint Michael, Saint Gabriel and Saint Raphael of the 29th September 1972 a religious, member of the Society of Christ. So I come back to this subject quietly to Rejoice in this and share it once I have Realized the new states and new graces granted to me by the Segneur God: The Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, One Living and true God, the Most Holy Trinity. Be a person consecrated to this God moves me and pushes me to great recognition. It is his choice and not the my; it was He who had chosen me as He did in the Old and New Testaments. And I know that I don't Don't know why? When I was a young boy I observed the other boys, I saw one of them, from neighborhood, named Władysław Owsianka and I thought: Surely he will be called to the priesthood; but it wasn't the case. I was already talking about my beautiful brother. sister Wiesława, the wife of my brother Ignacy; Mirosław Kasprzyk was very good at everything and resourceful; He has done all the necessary studies philosophical and theological, I see it again in the photo of my Mass of First Fruits in procession: beautiful boy and intelligent and yet he is not a priest. I have View our group of religious after our vows of September 29 1972 decrease from month to month and by one trentainte at the beginning be eleven to be ordained as a priest. Being with Mirosław in the same family due to my brother's marriage As seminarians, I talked with him during the holidays in visiting the young couple of spiritual things and I saw the Differences between his view of what should be done in the Church and his own; I wanted him to improve; But he told me: you are religious so you think like that, me I'm preparing to be a diocesan priest So that's where the difference comes from; I was not convinced of his explanation. And I think than if he had listened to me and changed me His point of view, he would have become a priest. I'm not certainly, but I think so. The Gospel is the same for Everybody; God's choices are diverse, but he needs the workers at the harvest. His advice to resolve the Shortage of vocations is prayer! Being religious It is keeping the flame of prayer alive! It's always refer us back to the grace of God. The sentence famous of Saint Teresa of the Child Jesus: "All is grace!" appears exaggerated but he is a Doctor of the Church since 1997 proclaimed by Saint John Paul II. Sa Vita Consecrata is a Document to read and reread, again and again, to grasp what it is to be religious. By the way - Saint John Paul II will be proclaimed Doctor of the Church very soon, I am one convinced. In entering the Society of Christ I do not knew nothing of what religious life is; but really nothing. I discovered only by introducing myself already in front of the Reception Officer of the General House in Poznań, Father Edmund Kufel, that it is the Congregation and to be first a religious and then after being admitted to making Vows through the Novitiate could possibly be register for the Major Seminary etc. I said to myself: Since I'm already here and in a way Quite unusual, let's take a closer look at what it is all of it. And I stayed as I can see as I go along. and as being sure of nothing, especially after to have lived this ordeal that I have debatedalready shared where I had to stop pursuing the path started. Now it is one of the most old religious that I find myself having 42 years of seniority You might say. So what would I say about that? Let it all be Holds! That is what I would say! Provided that man does not separate what God has a ;i! These words send us back to the discussion between the Pharisees and Jesus Christ at about marriage; but Jesus' answer is valid for many more situations than we think at first sight. The work of unity and uniqueness is a common pastoral work of God and man. These are always of the Alliance. I learned to learn this keyword of all the history of humanity. This applies to the natural world as well as to the supernatural world. Cea Applies to marriage and to religious life as well. My colleague in the Society of Christ working in the same Diocese, Jarosław Kucharski, is leaving this Congregation and become only diocesan priest; isn't it: to separate what God has united in him? Not Looks like this to the divirce and lq rupure of alliance? Yes, you are Yes, you are... But he will remain a priest! Okay it will remain so and even he will remain a deacon in addition according to what we have said just now. But he will no longer be a religious. Thank you to my Community for welcoming me 42 years ago years in its bosom and allow me to be religious and in Alliance with her that I hope forever! Again Thank you!

Envoy on mission - the priesthood

I have referred to in the previous chapter of the word of Christ concerning him: The Son of man is not Not to be served but to serve and give one's life in Ransom for the multitude. I wrote that the The second part of the sentence concerned his priesthood. We priests share in his One Priesthood through the grace of God. What a mystery! We don't know him than if we are there! I was making images and assumptions in my Little head of man, Christian, religious and finally of deacon but all this was nothing in front of reality. Again this is a reality of Grace. There is more in us grace precedes the other grace so that everything be put in a good place! The first months of the mission Pastoral care quickly check where we are with all this. The human nature, I have already said prefers to be served or to be served than to be at service. And yet: to be a priest is to serve the Priesthood of Christ and not to use it even for good causes. I had in my first parish four villages to serve so every Sunday four Masses in celebrate and in two villages do catechism from morning until evening. It was in Suchań near Stargard, as vicar of the parish priest, the father Tadeusz Jóźwiak, one year and then, the new parish priest, the Father Józef Kosobucki, for the second year. My predecessor to this position of vicar, Father Zenon Broniarczyk, was about to leave for Australia. How happy and enthusiastic I was to accomplish this service, this mission, and to fulfill my life of the Joy of serving and being useful. "Giving your life in ransom"- then that's what it means to be priest according to the heart of Christ. Children, young people, men and women, the sick and the elderly. I thank Father Tadeusz for trusting and Guide on the first steps of parish ministry! Two years Well lived and well filled with all kinds of graces received and services rendered. I was learning like a Novice how to allow grace to age to From the supernatural world to this natural world if Wounded everywhere and in need of the divine mercy. And then come that memorable day and unforgettable in this year 1978. Yes, the election Cardinal Karol Wojtyła as Pope John Paul II. Five months to Pain to be a priest and to have one for 27 years and a half under his pontificate. I am happy to be born and to living in this period of Church history and of the humanity where my compatriot accomplished its noble mission. And still to live as a man that I am and Poles, but that was not enough for Divine Providence! No, God wanted me to be with him the deacon, the priest and the religious. The height of happiness and grace! Lord that That's wonderful. Already when this happened, I return to that evening of October 16, 1978, but since and Until recently, on 27 April 2014 Sat canonization in Rome. I can't believe this! But I have to come back to share the discoveries of the young person's life priest that I was in my First Parish. I was shocked! In the village Słodkówko Only a third of the inhabitants came Sunday at Holy Mass. Unthinkable compared to my Parish of origin. And then by going to celebrate the Easter mass in another village Słodkowo I saw the men take out their horses and wagons to go to work in the fields! It wasn't better in other villages and I had pitof them. The Lord Me was preparing for my future mission in France, but I didn't know how to screw it up. After the first few months From enthusiasm came a certain weariness. I thought that this small third of practitioners will soon change into half and then in two years there will be only one third of non-practicing, rebellious and recalcitrant. Again Once, I admit, I let myself be trapped by "my me" and "the grace of God" was not there. step! A pretty girl then approached me to give a hand and I needed it but... it is not No reason... it's that someone... who attracts and who shoot... no matter to him. the demon. He wants succeed... beautiful Olga! One day I told him. Let's take all the two the rosary and recite it aloud, otherwise Nothing is going well anymore I am at the end of strength, I calls to God's grace, otherwise I leave From here, I must run away! I understand better now and since that moment the place and role of the Saint Madonna! She had reached out to me and She made me Get out of danger and the demon would be happy to have successful. Thank you Lord! Thank you, Marie! And thank you Life! Be In love with a pretty girl there are no more things Easy. Since I know where I was I testifies to the truth. Some of my colleagues and confreres have left the priesthood and I stand firm Thus far; But who am I to judge them? I pray for them from time to time. Better have done those who are party before the Seminar, it was still the time... But then?... But now? No! Hail Mary full of grace! Get me this grace to fulfill my mission to the end and to remain what I am: a man, a religious, a deacon and a priest of the Lord!

France I've loved you since we first met

If he There are first names that have double use and this is the case from the name "France" someone might think that I Spread my flame to a pretty girl! Of course not! It's of the France I am speaking! of this beautiful and wonder-filled country, the eldest daughter of the Church. Before the Second holiday in my life as a priest, the proposal reached my address: Could you replace both priests in France so that they can rest? I have never been abroad before, even in Poland nowhere else than once in Częstochowa, once in Krakow and then seven years in Poznań and Kiekrz. Now in the Diocese of Szczecin, a Parish of the Seven Villages and this invitation: To go to France that for holidays. I agreed! First times I also had to fly. Or rather it was the plane that was supposed to take me. July and August 1980, here is in Montigny-en-Ostrevant department of the North. If I have given this title to the chapter is that it was Love at first sight. Two months spent in the diocese of Cambrai and carrying out a pastoral mission to the Poles from the families of miners' incense, a large coal mine in this village and in neighbouring Pecquancourt. First month of July with Father Ludwik Słomiany and the second of August with Father Jan Guzikowski. We cannot understand this wind of Freedom that blows on you when you leave the Country under the unhealthy and oppressive regime! I breathed fresh air at the top of your lungs and then, what a joy to discover in pilgrimage Our Lady of Lourdes. It is through Her all graceful and beautiful that I became in love with France. Finally, we know that I speak of a Country but I am now talking about a Girl, a Virgo, of a Woman, this time without any danger as in the past, on the contrary! Father Stanisław Stefanek Vice-General of our Congregation, that will soon become Bishop Auxilière of Szczecin does me great good by sending me to this missio,n of replacement, I am very grateful, for this and also to teach us at the Seminary the rudiments of The Old Testament. The quiet month of July but not the month August; What for? Strikes in Gdański and Szczecin and Silesia and elsewhere: Solidarność (Solidarity)! After the visit of the Polish Pope to his native country in 1979, the nation moves and wakes up; She is no longer afraid because that she believe the word of this Slavic Pope: Not afraid! Victoire's place the previous year filled with crowds in Warsaw defying the regime Out of breath and powerless to change life for the better. And now here are the workers who reject a workers' party: The tug-of-war and the successful negotiations to what we know since. When I go back to Poland for On September 1, the Agreements; the government gave in; Free trade union will be able to exist and defend people etc. I learn that I am transferred to Szczecin in the Parish of Sacred Heart! The one we visited in coming there by bike from the Novitiate. A very large proisse of 30 thousand inhabitants. From the countryside to the big city then. A new experience as many Masses on Sunday but in the same church: Five homilies on the other hand and then the High School Students and the numerous visits to the Families at home all the time. It's like a Great spiritual factory of course. I live in the attic, a only round window and heat in summer impossible life; the parish priest Stanisław Misiurek and several vicaiIncluding me among them and retired priests. And also the Brethren of the Society of Christ, the religious but not priests or deacons: one is sacristan, the other - cook, and the other still decorator: Piotr Szafranek, my neighbor in the attic. Szczecin lives historical moments like Gdansk and like all Poland By the way. I see people breathing a bit like I do in France recently the area of freedom. After of a year of intense work here I am designated to go abroad after next Christmas on a mission! Where, do you think? In France! Yes, after return from the famous holiday - my room spoke only French; running cassettes and rehearsals; I have Took to high school but that was ten years ago! I have found in France in vcances that I was almost none in this area; all the French I had Meeting spoke too fast and the journalists at the TV even faster. So, I understand: my Neighbors in the attic were fed up with French. They have perhaps said to the Superior: this one must send him as soon as possible to France with whom he has become in love. You will do your papers before Christmas: Pasport you already have it, But you need a new visa. Very well.. In the meantime you will serve at the Cathedral of Saint James. Le dimache tu celebrated Holy Mass there at 7 a.m. morning. 11 December 1981 Everything is ready: the passport contains the visa of the Embassy of France in Warsaw. In a few days I will cross Poland by train from the top in low to go live the last Christmas in the Family and the Parish where I come from. And then I'll say goodbye to all and long live Poland and long live France. He fell A lot of snow on those days. On Sunday morning I get up early to celebrate Mass at 7 a.m. at the Cathedral. The homily is ready on joy as St. Paul the Apostle asks in the second reading, it is Sunday called: Laetare which means joy.

Poland my homeland, I will never forget you

The December 13, Sunday is still dark, I leave the Presbytery of the Sacred Heart and I make the way to the Cathedral of St. James in Szczecin, I enter In the sacristy, I put on the priestly vestments and I go out into the church and I start the Celebration of the third Sunday of the Before. The Gospel and the homily on joy; After a few moments I I realize that something is wrong. People go out handkerchiefs and they cry. What's going on? I shortened the homily and I continue the Mass and give the blessing. After Thanksgiving I return to the Sacristy and I see some parishioners who is addressed to me: So you don't know? I don't know what? General Jaruselski proclaimed to midnight the state of war; many members of Solidarnćść were arrested and interned for some time. .part... etc That's the general surprise, nobody did not expect this. General block of the Country. For one cannot leave his Region without authorization of the militia. I went to the police station on Monday and we Take my passport with the French visa and we put a Stamp: Cancelled. Nothing is more valid. We cannot call nowhere; Everything is blocked. I requests permission to go by train to Warsaw to ask the Primate of Poland to intervene in the Ministry of the Interior to be let go in France as planned. I get the dispatch and in Warsaw the intervention Cardinal Józef Glemp is crowned with success; In a few days everything is again validated the visa Y Understood. I ask after returning to Szczecin authorization to leave for the Region of Maùopolska in my Village, my Family and my Parish original. The Lord has made it possible to cross all the Obstacles. After Christmas and New Year I still asks for permission to go by train to Poznań then to Warsaw again to catch the plane and go France. On January 17, 1982 I left Poland qvec two suitcases to start the new life and mission, perhaps for the rest of my earthly life. God alone knows! When I left Poland I was thirty years old. I write These so.uvenir thirty-two and a half years later in 2014 and I have not forgotten Poland my first Fatherland! But I have adopted the France and she too adopted me: it is my second homeland and I love the France. God I is witness that I really love him! I like the Poland since loving is my Vocation and since I am a man, since I am a Christian, since I am a religious, since I am a deacon, since I am a priest. Yes all this is true and my love for Poland is true, as the one for the France is also true. Everything I had written in the first chapters on my Vocation is an explanation thus given the question why my Vocation is love. I agree with Little Therese in saying this. from Carmel to Lisieux. And I'm writing this on July 16, when the Church venerates the Blessed Virgin Our Lady of Mount Carmel.Lq Vocation to Love it is revealed in a way sublime in this Virgin and Mother of God the Magnificent. And this what Saint Teresa of the Child wrote Jesus and the Holy Face is extraordinary. Here are these words that I take pleasure in quoting: "Charity gave me the key to my vocation. I understood that if the Church had a body, composed of different members, the most necessary, the noblest of all did not fail him; I understood that the Church had a Heart, and that this Coeyour was burning with love. I understood that Love alone felt. act the members of the Church, that if Love came to to extend, the Apostles would no longer announce the Gospel, the Martyrs would refuse to shed their blood... I understood that love enclosed all vocations, that Love was everything, which he embraced all time and all places...; in a word, that it is eternal... Then In the excess of my delirious joy, I cried: O Jesus, my Love... My vocation, finally I found it, my vocation is love... Livres des Jours AELF Paris 1976 p.1608n

I like Poland as a man

The incident which took place at Stary Sącz High School in the French class when I told the French teacher, Mrs. Anna Hasko that I was a Pole and that Poland I will never leave because I loves it and I think I'll stay there forever, this event was already a revelation for me too. I realized at that time for the first time times so much how much I loved him my homeland, Poland, at that time I was in danger of having A very bad rating at least if not worse. But Mrs. Anna Hasko, who taught us to love France teaching us French was too smart for not understanding my declaration of love for the Poland. She looked me in the eye and stared at my a young man of 17 or 18 years old and said to me: My child how can you say that you will not leave Poland since you will not Can't know your future? And it was a Right answer! She was not going to challenge or devalue my love for Poland; it was aimed only at my ignorance of what the future will reveal to About my residency. One can reside elsewhere than in Poland and still love it which is my case. My love for Poland is at first a natural love for a man whom I am. In my nature as a man everything came to me from the part of her. My parents were both Polish and descendants of Poles. Everything they had received from their own Parents they tried to us pass on their children to us. Already in the Choice of the first names they gave us one after the others Poland was not forgotten even if it was the Church they thought of before all for example: Ignatius, Joseph, Mary, Thérèse and Andrew, the last. But my name: Casimir and my sister: Stanisława, who came just one year after me, it's an explicit reference to the history of the Poland. I became aware of it quite quickly and the Parents confirmed this interpretation. The Poland of their time was very poor and she was just coming out of the opression foreign of its three neighbours after 123 years of tireless resistance and several insurrections heroic. My father was born in 1921 when the Poland had been healing its wounds for three years free and sovereign but only for twenty years. The terrible war Hitler and Stalin as a pincer then go again a times trying to annihilate it forever. I have grew up under the Stalinist regime and then under false pretenses of the so-called "social justice" ideology. If I have to tell the whole truth I admitted in My philosophical reflections and discussions with others Visions of things that things were more complex than what could be judged by each other. The idea to combat illiteracy was just idea and we were all beneficiaries through free and compulsory schooling. If this Were it only Poland and its nation would not have not to revolt against the obvious progress. But forget its millennial history and depreciate it at the price of allegiance to a foreign country like the Sivietic Union by hiding the "agreements" from the people of Theheran and those of Jalta it was one thing abominable. As a man only I challenged them and I sought to manifest it by the categorical refusal. to carry the red flag during school mnifestations. And then when I learned from my father that we played each other of him by pressuring him to join the Party louseR Receiving help for his large family I was angry. My natural love for Poland was based on my reason of man and on historical truth. Grace To the father who had this historical knowledge reinforced by five years of emigration where nostalgia for the country in the grip of aggression on all sides gave him the moral strength to transmit to his children that what is most important is to give oneself by work and prayer to his family, to his homeland and through all this to give themselves entirely to Creator God who is very worthy to receive from our share this recognition and gratitude. In the last ten Years of his life my dad was blind. But he was always aware of what was happening in Poland and in the world. It was thanks to the radio - technically speaking - that I am offered to him, but speaking differently and strongly, it was thanks to Radio Maryja founded by Father Tadeusz Rydzyk in Torun, town of Copernicus. I thank this religious priest of the Congregation of the Redemptorist Fathers for this great gift offered to my father and to all of Poland. The history of the Poland is all natural and rational; those who love it as a reasonable and intelligent man and woman do not put themselves in the compromises of alleviance and obedience to no one but God who had it created and maintained with generations Before, now, and the future according to one's own Plans and designs

I like Poland as a Christian

I left Poland thirty-two and a half years ago in its situation dramatic, as I have already told in one of the previous chapters. She wanted to get rid of an unhealthy system that oppressed him for so long. The state of war set in motion against the Polish nation thanks to the presence of the Pope John Paul II at the Commende of the Moral Authority that the Church holds from the Creator and Saviour of the world Jesus Christ, his offer of the suffering he suffered at the continuation of the atentate against him in the Place de Saint Pierre in Rome is of his prayer added to that of the Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski who died at the end of May 1981, obtained Heaven's help for the continuation of events that within a period of seven years brought the first Elections still half-free, but it was already a great progress and finally thanks to God the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit we made this year 2014 twenty-five years of the Poogne libre and unacceptable. As a Christian I am happy to be able to Write all this in a simple and true way: I received everything from Poland also all that God has for it. had given as a legacy in the domain of the world supernatural thanks to the Catholic Church that he has been installed there for almost 1050 years for generations and generations that would pass on its natural and historical territory despite All the vagaries of foreign forces political,social,economic,cultural,spiritual and others may even be occult and diabolical. As a Christian, despite the distance that separates me philosically from my native country and I manifest it in me all surrender The years to spend my holidays there, I continue to love the Poland even more strongly by being distant of it and noting that it is in danger of infidelity to one's own soul Christian by imported ideologies now from the West as harmful if not more than the one she vigorously repelled after the armistice of the Second World War. Poland I love as a Christian and defend according to All means available to me - this written testimony This is one of the signs of this - and I would defend it. always according to this trinity of values: God, Honor, Fatherland that the historical defenders of Poland put always on the cloths. Quend this is the first Values it is not another God that Poland wants to serve than the Holy Trinity: the Father and the Son and the Holy One Spirit. As a Christian it is of the Church that is in Poland and precisely in Tarnów that I have received this Divine Revelation. Les Saintes Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments with the Saint Tradition and the Pontifical Roman Magisterium are for the Poland and for the Catholic Christians who live there and for all Polish Emigration old and new expression of the Truth that cannot be discussed and cannot be discussed discuss. All human thoughts in all history of humanity and all human thoughts of all people currently living on Earth (7 billion about) are not worth a single divine thought or a single one word of God who was willing to reveal himself in parculate in his Son Jesus Christ only Lord and alone Save to whom all power has been given by his Father in Heaven and on Earth in Their Common Love and Mutual that bears the Name of the Holy Spirit. This domain of God Unique, Alive and True is only accessible to Christians; the others, whoever they are, have not than to listen to it and to convert earlier or later; As long as it's not too late! Second value is the Honour that Poland has to always defended and will defend it in any case I Hope so! As the First Value we have Tried to describe is defended by the three virtues theological: Faith, Charity and Hope, This second value is defined and defended by the four moral virtues: prudence, justice, strength and temperance. The former are given only to Christians and the latter every human person can acquire if it makes a necessary effort to this acquisition by working on its character and other elements of its nature: intelligence, will and memory. Christians are helping also in this field greatly by supernatural grace but Any person may request and obtain from God's part, even if He is Unknown or not yet recognized, the natural graces that God does not refuse to no person of good will. What to look for and to find it is the truth as it is presents itself more and more to the human consciousness. The One truth exists whatever one says and the others, but she does not let herself be reached by any person human in order to be monopolized and used for reasons other than true Love. Associated with to Love in an Eternal Covenant the Truth Unique natural and supernatural united by union Hypostatic of two natures: Divine and Human in Jesus Christ always operates at the command of the Father Eternal and unfolds in power of the Action of The Holy Spirit. Jesus summed it up thus: I am the Way and the Truth and the Life; no one can go to My Father without going through Me! Finally, the third value to be revealed and to defend it is the Fatherland. This value has need to be well understood and it is not possible without good replication; one can be attacked being a patriot as a natiolalist, fascist, chovinist, racist, fundamentalist as well as Christian, populist, etc. To love Poland is not forbidden to anyone; but we can't to love humanly speaking only what we learn by being there interesting on the side of language, culture, of traditions and history, of the mentality that is the Slavic way of thinking etc. The word Fatherland comes from the word "father". I would have nothing against it if in our time we would speak of the "Matrie" in naming the same indisputable value. Challenging the duty to love his Homeland or his Matrie is to want to contest and contradict God's Command: Your father and your mother Hononera and you will live long on your land where you live!

I like Poland as a religious

In as long as a religious I lived in Poland for ten years between 1972 and 1982. But I can say that I loved him as a that religious of the Society of Christ since 1932 is to say since the foundation of this Congregation New in the Church by the Primate of Poland, the Archbishop of Gniezno and Poznań, Cardinal August Hlond. And it was twenty years before I was born in this same land of Poland. This I know requires an explanation and I think to have arguments to prove it. The Religious Congregation is a God's work that calls men to follow him on his plan and project. No member then if he becomes a member of this Oeuvre no longer acts in its own name but in the name of the Congregation under the responsibility of those who take the place and function of the Superiors. All the good natural and supernatural spiritual obtained through cooperation with God in this Common Work becomes a common heritage for all those who were pioneers, following and until today and today and after until the very weather whether the Congregation can be extinct historically speaking for example by lack of new candidates. So my love of Poland as a religious thanks to God and to my brothers began twenty years before God created my person with the collaboration of my Parents Antoni and Janina. If someone has not been convinced by this explanation it is not necessary; I give my testimony and I do not pretend to convince anyone that I am telling the truth. My conscience is at peace and That's what I'm looking for. I thank God for creating me and to want to be a member of the Christ. My love of Poland thus expanded to join a large part of Poles living outside its Borders. And very concretely and practically France since 1982. I there was sent by my Congregations to the provisions of the Major Superiors for the Province which Today is Franco-Spanish. Counting the time of my natural and supernatural presence as a member of full part of the Society of Christ I I am approaching 42 full years and active on all aspect of man's life consecrated to Love of God and Neighbor; and this Next is Poland all whole, the one whose children live on its territory geographical and the same one whose children are geographically speaking dispersed and live on the five continents of the earth. This work of the Community is A service with needs of all kinds that arise with who comes to meet us or not; A whole game of help is of the natural spiritual order or of the order supernatural spiritual that we ask for and obtain from God directly as graces for example conversions, conversions, Consolations, advice, information given in person voice, telephone or internet. It is also a Formation that is proposed: human and spiritual and above all the Community's permanent prayer for our compatriots, especially those living abroad and are in a situation of a denger to move away from These three values are discussed in the previous chapter: God, Honor, Fatherland and to lose these three magnificent gifts received of God: Faith, Charity and Hope. Our help to Poland in her beloved children in Truth to say is done more by what we are than by what we Let us do in thought, in proles or in actions. The state from Life of religious be they priests, deacons or simply Brothers by the grace of the divine vocation is fruitful not only for the Kingdom of Heaven but also for the earthly history of the Fatherland and its members. I write This testimony in French prevents me from provide more references to activities and the life of our Congregation but I put here refers to the site internet that I present www.kuczaj.org If you enter the proposed sites you are already initiated about another chapter: I love France as man,the religious, the deacon and the priest. Since I'm One Hundred for one hundred Poles and one hundred percent French. The Cartesians can tell me that the account is not good. It is not a question of not calculations it is about Love that does not calculate but gives everything and gives himself as well on the level natural but even more on the level of the supernatural world. Understand whoever wants!

I like Poland as a deacon

You You may have noticed that the chapter on vocation From the deacon is the chapter on the vocation of the ptêtre. And yet one becomes a deacon first and then possibly priest and finally, in rarer cases, bishop. Three degrees of ordination of divine institution which is the sacrament of Holy Orders, one of the Seven that Christ Jesus instituted in its Church in view of its Sacred Mission in all history of the world and worldwide, sent to all nations and to all generations up to the Parousia, that is to say, until the day when Christ Jesus will return in the glory of his Father and with all the Saints of Heaven to judge the living and the dead and introduce the elect who believed in him and in his Gospel into the Kingdom of God, in the Kingdom of Heaven! Why these chapters have been reversed? Many priests forget that they are still deacons. They wanted so much access to the priesthood only after arrival In the end they think only of what they have received Last but not least, it aspires to go even further, it is to become bishops. After the Council of Vatican II the Church has reconnected with her hostory of the beginnings and had decided to admit to the Diaconate married men and also single men who would stop there; they are called Deacons Permanent. They are more and more numerous but their condition theological is always in a position to be specified in the light of the Holy Scriptures, of the Tradition and Magisterium of the Catholic Church since it is necessary to adapt the Letters of the Missions which are given by the Ordinary Bishops to whom they are directly subject to the various situations in the world of them even and their wives in the case of married men and their children; The priority for these married deacons amounts to dedicating oneself to their Families and in The space of the possible they can be useful, if we can To say so, in the explicit mission of the Church and in her Liturgy; the Liturgy of the Present Time is their participation the strongest at that. Why do priests have this tendency to forget their diaconal state? Without judging person (who are you to judge your brother? warns St Paul), I admit myself to forget it too, I think that it comes from the need for prestige. The Apostles discussed among themselves who were the greatest among them and Jesus responded by offering them a scene with a grandchild. If you don't become like that child... etc. Obviously that the feeling of prestige does not suit the mind that Jesus spoke about the Son of man who did not come to be served but to serve. Be in service clothes and with lights on... In True all the part of life of priests, with the exception to celebrate Holy Mass and welcome sinners repented for the Sacrament of Forgiveness is Diakonia. We see each other refers to Jesus the Servant in the Diaconate and to Jesus "giving his life as a ransom for the multitude" in the priesthood. That's right. For this which is of the "Episcopate" is the College of the Bishops who succeeds the College of the Apostles from the time of Jesus until the last day of the resurrection promised by Him. Love Poland like a deacon presented its present history to the Majesty Divine and presented the Divine Majesty to the Polish so that they can worship him as he should. Deacon pclaims the Gospel and gives the explanation by The homily at the celebration and by exchanges everywhere else in the image and the example of Jean-Baptist the Predecessor of the Christ: Deacon is a predecessor of Christ who comes into his Easter Mystery sometimes until martyrdom bloody like Stephen or John the Baptist precisely who for morality of the Gospel he proclaimed and defended was murdered. The diaconate service is often discreet and on the run in situations not foreseen but arranged by the Divine Providence. It is enough to be available and open to meeting and going out on the periphery of the Church institutional; seek to offer to people of all the cathegory and all the beliefs to know The Holy Trinity and its Plan of Salvation for all. It is not not as the Acts of the Apostles shows a strategy rational but obedience to the Action of the Holy Spirit who blows where He wants and when He wants because He knows human hearts and prepares them in advance to welcome the Word and the gift of salvation that God offers everyone the auspicious times He chooses according to his Providence: Thank you Lord for making me a Deacon and helping me to accomlet this Mission!

In As a priest I love everyone

My vocation to the priesthood has reached its culmination In the priestly ordination that was granted to me conferred on 31 May 1978 at the Cathedral of Poznań by Monsignor Marian Przykucki at the request of the Rector of the Seminary of the Society of Christ, the Father Bogusław Nadolski. It is the Rector, too, who came to my Mass of First Fruits on the following June 13th is preached. This unforgettable party organized by my Family and my original parish engraved In my young heart a great mark of emotion and joy. My mother was sick that day It is my godmother who replaces her at the celebration. At home the party next door of the kitchen and table service was conducted by Mrs. Magdalena Zwolinska from the nearby village Skrudzina. So I am became a priest of Jesus Christ for eternity and I'm happy to be since thirty-six years; It happened very quickly that time of 36 years. Three and a half years in Poland and the rest in France. The essence of my life as a priest is the sacrifice of the Holy Mass and the reception of sinners to grant them absolution from sins in the name of Jesus and his Church. Yes I am a Representative calified by the divine choice of this Aliance between Christ Jesus and the Church He builds on the Faith of Stone. This grace of faith is granted to him by the Eternal Father who reveals Jesus to him as his Only Begotten Son and the Messiah sent to save the world from His sins by offering his life as a ransom for the Multitude, in his own words. Resurrected Jeus Actualizes this offering of himself with a sacramental way through the service of its priests that He did once and for all in a way bloody on the Cross at Calvary. Here it is not at all of the natural world that it is, but of the supernatural world. Being admitted to this new and completely supernatural world where "neither the eye, nor the ear, nor even The human heart has no access in a version earthly and natural only pure faith can operate and the Holy Spirit works on this basis so that a Last day the beginnings turns into a full realization and it will be the extraordinary divine work who will participate in the eornity of God. The surprise will be total for all because there is no God who knows this in advance. The Mass celebrations are the only way for God to Foreshadow this new and indestructible world. Every Saint Mass "worth gold" could we say to cause of the sans of Christ verse and because of the body of Christ delivered. The truth discovered thanks to the state to be a priest of Jesus Christ is that it is not we who loved God but it was God who first loved us and sent his Son so that by coying in Him we can be saved. It is no longer a question of loving Poland, France or even all of humanity; That's the question to be an instrument in the hands of God the Savior for may salvation come to be known and welcomed by all if possible. Between the Mystery of Jesus' historical Passion Christ and the Holy Mass celebrated by day in day there is ontological connivance since it is God who offers himself to God for the remission of sins of the multitude of poor sinners throughout the the story from Adam and Eve to the last for whom the Kingdom of God will open. Yes, the most important time important in my priest's day is that one when I celebrate Holy Mass. He this mystery of faith is great. I thank the Lord for having wanted me so close to Him in those moments when He loved me and had given himself up for me- as St. Paul the Apostle writes. God and Man goes through the birth pangs of the new humanity and He first associates His Blessed Mother with this Childbirth: Behold your Son, this is your Mother. The Mother of God until that moment and the Mother of The new humanity from this time of the Passion of the Pièta. She is present at each celebration of Mass; I know that and I want to greet her regularly at every Mass. What happens at the Holy Eucharist is beyond me completely; only I try to celebrate it worthily and respectfully by asking the Holy Spirit to to seize me so that my priestly service may please God! I thank the Lord for all the moments and for all the where I could do it: in Poland and France; Morocco; in Greece; Portugal; Italy; in Earth Saint in Germany; and wherever I lived or went in time of service or in time of vacation. Now it is to Bordeaux and in two weeks, if the Lord will allow it in Poland to new in my parish of origin where it all began thirty-six years ago.

I like France as man, Christian, religious, the deacon and the priest

I was All this when I knew the France for the First time as I have already said in The chapter: "France, I love you!" I was the mature man, the assertive Christian and confirmed, the religious well aware of being member of a body united by the common charism; And then I was Deacon and priest with a "running-in" experience on the field of the Lord's vineyard able to enter a short story

"Adventure spiritual". And it had to happen in this country of France that seduced me for the first time thanks to to Our Lady of Lourdes who revealed herself there like the Immaculate Conception. The Blessed Virgin loves the France and she will teach me to love her as well as that man, as the Christian, as the religious, as the deacon and the priest. You with noticed that I had put articles everywhere and that I put them defined. Yes, I was thirty years old when I landed at Orly coming from Warsaw; it was in Paris that I spent my First day and my first night. At my Brother Władysław Szynakiewicz, my colleague but not the father. He was neither a deacon nor a priest; he was the religious of the Society of Christ and of the first generation, of one of the First battalions. Yes this word makes us think of the army and military art. And we are not mistaken in the thinking on condition that one thinks of spiritual warfare and with spiritual weapons. Brother Władysław lived in the position in France fifty years. He was the Secretary of the Polish Catholic Mission in France, the oldest of all Foreign Missions Catholics since its foundation dates back to the thirties of the XIX- th century. The Superior of the Province French, Father Wacław Bytniewski informed me that my pastoral internship in France will begin in Aulnay-sous-Bois where the parish priest is Father Leszek Fara. I have took the Metro to get there for the first time times I traveled by metro and commuter train titled B. Aulnay-sous-Bois and Blac-Mesnil, the places of First celebrations of the Holy Mass during this short internship, once arrived in France. My dear France, love at first sight has not ceased to put us in mutual knowledge. I only found that what I have learned in Poland from French still required a lot of work mainly on the side of speaking in a loud voice, and learn new words and know how to pronounce them well. During this few months in Aulnay-sous-Bois I wanted to enjoy opportunity to be very close to Paris and do studies on Alliance Français but the Curé said to me: What you already know is enough for you, you have not No need for that. Well, okay I'll do this according to my means of board and I hope it will go. I thank God for giving me at the Lycée the possibility of being a student of Mrs. Anna Hasko The teacher of exceptional French. She knew us learn to read, write, well pronounce, and especially to love not only French but also France; I remember: She brought records and made us listen e.g. "In the fields Elisha" or "Fall snow, you will not come tonight" and for to begin was: "Brother James, brother James, are you sleeping?" I had in Poland the little fiat, an F 126 car inherited from Father Zenon Broniarczyk and I left it to my successor in Suchań. In Szczecin, I didn't need it. But Here, in France, it is necessary. My colleague from the same battalion 36, and comrade in high school and the same bench, the one through whom the information came to me and the Lord's call to join the Society su. Christ, was not sent outside of Poland for the driving licence cause; he got it Hardly for the motorcycle, but not for the car. The parish priest of the Mission in Aulnay, Father Leszek Fara had put in agreement with the Superior and bought me the new car Peugot 107, and the Parishioners - a Polish woman married to a Frenchman Carabeuf who held a Driving school helped me to know how to drive in France, especially on the Autouroute which in Poland did not exist Not at the time. So I made a first travel from France to Poland for holidays in Peugot a few 1800 kilometers. So that was in July 1982. Before leaving I learned that after the return I will go to Roubaix in the North to continue my internship pastoral there with the parish priest, Father Zdzisław Król and his cooperator, Father Jan Bojda.

Church In France, how are you?

One pastoral internship for me in France resumed in Roubaix. It was the provisions of the French Episcopate that every priest coming to work in France first did a pastoral internship for at least one year. The Diocese of Lille was the first Diocesan Church in France that gave me welcomes officially in France. Once religious I was incardinated in my Congregation submitted directly to the Pope, under pontifical right. Once ordained deacon and Then priest I began to be part of of the Clergy, and whenever the Congregation wants send me somewhere to accomplish my mission is to the Bishop of the Diocese of the place that grants me the powers to exercise my ministry as a deacon and as a Catholic priest. The time spent at Aulnay was to get used to the news realities as the religious and now it is officially that I am enrolled in the presbiterium of the Church who is in Lille under the Pastorate of his Bishop, Monsignor Jean Vilnet. I started my ministry in August 1982 in Roubaix and Lile since these two places were places of celebration of the Holy Mass. In Roubaix, it was at the church newly built by the Poles and their parish priest for commemorating the millennium of the Baptism of Poland in 966. The consecration of the Church of Our Lady of Częstochowa in Roubaix took place in June 1972 by Monsignor Szczepan Wesoły came from Rome who was the Delegate of the Primate of Poland for the Pastoral Care of Emigrants Polish worldwide. In Lille it was a chapel adjoining the Church of Saint Etienne street military. The parish feast of August 26, 1982 was connected with a major demonstration of Poles against the state of war in Poland triggered nine months before by General Jaruselski. What made me marked in Roubaix is this opposition to the system brought to Poland by the employees of the Soviet coming after the Red Army which said to bring freedom. I had lived Personally thirty years under this regime and here I immediately took part in this opposition. But there was Apparently a problem! I arrived in France Just weeks after the events of 13 December 1981 and the Region from which The strikes began in 1980. We were suspicious of me: Is he not a spy and collaborator of the regime, since he came so easily from there and he even made a holiday trip without any problems in his Country natal. One day there was a welcome from a family who was first interned on 13 December 1981 and then expulated from Poland to church from Roubaix they were greeted with honors and bouquets of flowers; If memory serves, this family was called Zając. Some time unmasked she had to take refuge in the Polish Consulate in Lille rue Carnot, before the anger of the Solidarność. One was linked with the Polish Parish; the other was areligious and did not want to depend on the Church. Solidarność of Catholic obedience made A lot of effort to send humanitarian aid to Poland by parish structures under responsibility of the Poonese Episcopate who negotiated this with the Jaruselski's War Komitet. What a job! I have seen it from my eyes daily; Humanitarian aid of course, but we suspected that the ink sent was not Not for little schoolchildren. Solidarity in Poland had above all, the need to communicate with civil society. The Egliwas staying true to continue always to offer everyone the space of freedom both spiritual and cultural if it were not more. The martyrdom of Father Popieluszko is "an icberg". The other Solidarność in Roubaix was the good people but some were not believers and there are had in it the French who did not understand that the priests could be so "politicized." Young people of Polish origin but having completed the studies: doctors, lawyers, municipal councillors, etc. was I do not agree that in the Church we can talk about the politics. Neither do I. But when I said it the Suspicions of being a spy of the regime sniffed. And when I once said that we have to do the catechism not only in Polish but also in French people were starting to tell me that I should leave!

Dunkirk Here I am!

The Superior on the occasion of the Feast of Saint Casimir 1986, on March 4, informs me that I am transferred to Dunkirk! I have to go and take charge of the Polish Mission at the faster, because the current parish priest, Father Jerzy Chorzempa will have to go to Morocco for Easter next in place of Father Edmond Wojda who will go to Iraq, because there the father on the 31st Last December Father Stanisław Ułaszkiewicz died in circumstances not yet explained. So this is how Divine Providence and the Superiors of the Congregation had the priests moved at the international level and I am committed to it also as the only priest in charge of the Polish Mission in Dunkirk and all of French Flanders. It was for my case a displacement within the same Diocese, that of Lille and before Holy Week by The A25 motorway j I settle at 101, rue Gaspard Neuts not far from the North Sea, in this beautiful rebuilt city after the damage caused during the second World war. A house with a chapel inside but no parking for the car; there will then be to undergo several burglaries. Can you always keep your car in the street even if it was right in front of the house? At a Polish woman and widow Mrs. Władysława Dzięcioł I find The welcome as in his time and in the country stranger the prophet Elijah; I am regularly fed and that for free. She is from Częstochowa in Poland from where she had come with her husband Stanisław works on nearby farms; It was a long time ago; she is a widow and their child did not survive a serious illness no more. This only son - she told me - was a child of heart in this parish where she lived Right now. One day he returned from the service of the Mass and he said: Mother, mother, the parish priest put the Saints in prison! How? What are you saying? That's right, Mom! And he tells that coming to church in the morning with other altar servers they saw each other that there were no more statues or saints Images at the church. After Mass one of them dared to ask the question about it to the parish priest. So he had led them to a cellar in the presbytery and showed them behind the grids the Saints who before the Second Vatican Council had their place inside the church. This true story that I follow very well made me write the title of the previous chapter: The Church From France, who are you? My love for France comes true more easily curiously than my love for the Church which is in France. And that until today! How this Is it possible? I wonder that too. Recently someone important in the Church wrote to my Superior: "Father Casimir Kuczaj is very unsuited to French pastoral realities. His parish priest could not entrust him with other missions to Cause of his misunderstanding of mentalities French. I hope you can find a place more adapted to his personality... I think that he does not realize his inadequacy well" (the letter is dated April 8, 2014). And here's what he replied my Superior, Father Jan Ciągło: "Personally, I am very surprised by your observation. I have known Father KUCZAJ for thirty-two Years; As you know, he did his philosophical studies and theological studies in Poland, studies of which he is holds a master's degree. He returned to Societas Christi - approved religious congregation by the Vatican

- To realize the priestly vocation enver emigrants Polish worldwide. It carries out this mission among Polish emigrants who have been France for thirty-two years, not hesitating to work with the Church local (as for example in Le Creusot or Abscon, Escaudain, Dunkirk, Roubaix...) As you point out, Father KUCZAJ has always shown fratrnity towards his confreres, but also openness towards everyone, integration (French citizen, he masters perfectly the language of Molière) and a commitment sincere and profound in his priestly mission. It's For this reason I am quite appalled by the terms "very unfit for realities French pastorals" and "misunderstanding of French mentalities": on what facts do you Rely on formulating these opinions, which with this degree Do they seem shocking or even discrisive to me? It is a A situation that upsets me because a person is judged to cause of his personality, his culture of origin and his spirituality. I disagree with the opinions that you present against the father KUCZAJ and I want to point out to you that I am not favorable to his renvie of the diocese of Bordeaux" ( The response is dated April 4, 22. I'll be back later to this case.. I'm coming back to Dunkirk!

First Experience of being the parish priest

First experience of being a parish priest; I give this title to This chapter because to have about thirty people to the Mass and to bear this great title within the Church Catholic is something paradoxical. Paradoxes do not not lacking in the Gospel; but when they are found in the Pesonnelle life is even more overwhelming! The Widow Polish experienced the pardox of being shaved alive until the Grande Vielliesse while his son Unique left this world at a very young age. But before experiencing this she was upset with her a very young child who brought from the parish church when there was not yet a Polish mission in Dunkirk this story of the Saints put in prison. We can laugh about it, Why not? But didn't Jesus warn? against scandals that could distance Him especially little ones who believe in Him? I don't want to go to trial in the Church of France, its history is different from other countries in Europe and elsewhere! But when same! Pope John Paul II on his first trip Apostolic in France in 1980 had he not posed this Question: France, eldest daughter of the Church whom Do you do with your baptism? Isn't talking like this speak above all to the Church that is in France? Probably not to the Republic which wants to be complete. lay! Except that here again it will be said that John Paul II was unsuited to French mentalities. Yes it's true, what shocked me in the diocese of Lille, the priests said to me: Oh, your Pope, he wants to be a prophet! And when the affair of Monsignor Gaillot has broken out Many of them supported this clerical rebel. I was in the team where there was the two worker priests; nice confreres but when a day sitting around a table without any priestly they all began the Liturgy Eucharistic in Grande Synthe, I left and before I I told them: why do you not respect the instructions of the Church in this area? The dean replied that the habit does not make the monk! The Saints in prison, the habit does not make the monk, and so many other explanations found and within reach but where was then their heart? Vocations are lacking but paradoxically I could not find A lot of ecclesiastic to worry about it. Some said: There were so many of us between the two wars. that it had to be reduced. Polish priests sent to France for Nord-Pas-de-Calais remembered that they too were told: You have come here What for? Eat our bread? So, we said that not only to Polish miners who did not want to associate to strikes at the call of the CGT, it was said This also to Polish Catholic priests! You can read at this subject the study of Mr. Gabriel Garçon on My site page:HTTp://casimir.kuczaj.free.fr/Mission/racines.htm The paradox that surprised me the most was that the French Secular Republic had me welcomed more easily than the Church in France; and yet I expected it would be the opposite. It is at Dunkirk that I became a citizen French once I had been living in France for five years years and that I applied to have both nationalities: to remain Polish and become French! We did not raise questions of French mentalities or the inadaptation to French realities and That was almost thirty years ago. Years. So that thehe Church leader puts forward these arguments Against me in 2014 there is something to be surprised! The Catholic Church means Universal, therefore the One who gathers the scattered children of God whatever their origin, social status, race, language, mentality, etc. This even more so when it comes to religious, deacons and priests, if not, where do we want to go, who do we want to serve, what gospel Do we want to announce to the world? You can't serve two masters Jesus Christ our Lord has declared to us! I have already been told: You do not want to understand! But Understand what in truth? That we are not in the same Church? Then it would be gracious Monsieur or Monseigneur! Think a little and you will see that the raaison even is on my side. It does not I don't like it everything does The Republic but in This area of Respect for the Release of Consciousness, she has still at learn this Church of France!

I am one hundred percent Frenchman

To love someone is to tame him as he had. says the Little Prince of Saint Exupéry. And maybe even to adopt it and to have each other adopted. Taken in 1980 By falling in love with the France, I here is French by decree signed by Hervé Brehier of 29 June 1990 published in the Official Journal of 01 July 1990. The priest and French but the priests French did not see it that way. They continued to call me a Polish priest since I worked for the Polish. But the Church has no nationalityality being catholic that is to say universal: Go worldwide; teach all nations; and teach them to keep all my commendemends; and I am with you all the days until the end of time; and those who believe baptize them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost! This is the Gospel I had learned. Is it Is there another? That I don't know? Saint Paul has already answered this question by writing to the Galatians! Then the Gaul should know! Yes, I already have it writes it like this: As a Frenchman, I am angry; as a Pole, I am overwhelmed; As a Christian, I am outraged; as a religious priest, I see Christ Jesus to be thrown into me! And so that's why, I decided to write all this on the Blog SCM staff. You who read me or will read me, listen to me, it is a fight for Christ and for the truth! I know that You believe me or later maybe you will believe me. Pray for me and for the France I love and for the Church in France that I love too! Being in Dunkirk I had in even the responsibility to be Vice-Provincial of the Society of Christ for six years. In as long as such I had a mission to do in Morocco: to go see my Confrere. It was no longer my predecessor of Dunkirk; he was already gone from there to Iraq; and the other father Andrzej Góźdź had replaced him there. This mission was delicate as it happens to the Manager to have take small or big problems with those who sound to them entrusted by the Congregation. In the end this father Andrzej will have left our Community by making himself incardinated in the Diocese of Toulon-Fréjus, working a few years earlier in Rouvroy in the Region of Pas-de-Calais. I discovered a Country Muslims, Morocco with its capital Rabat and the Great Mosque of Cassablanca. So I touched another with my feet continent than Europe for the first time! No, I trunk! How could I have forgotten! It was Asia which had first dazzled my eyes and my heart before this trip to Africa. I was still at Roubaix-Lille. With the previous Superior that the one from now who had sent me to Dunkirk, Father Wacław Bytniewski and two other confreres: Father Henryk Kulikowski and Father Zygmunt Stefański, With about thirty other people we had the joy of make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land! It was unforgettable and yet just now in chapter Previous I didn't think about it. It was like the eighth sacraments! We touched the trangled earth a thousand years ago through our Lord Jesus in Person, It was really amazing and we were touched in the heart and mind forever! Yes Lord Thank you! I come back to Morocco again. Polish women who naively thought that one could remain Catholic and marry a Muslim. Yes it was possible and feasible before the fateful mbet; But after how many problems for come to Mass and to baptize their children. The Muslim signed everything you want but what next? It is a Another chossette handle. It may not be very Well said in French but any it is Life, often broken, I pass you all the rest. I return to Dunkirk and at the expense of the parish priest. I went on holiday to see the Family and the parish priest of the Original parish: So you are the parish priest? Yes! So you have Many practitioners? About thirty in all. What? Oh yes. Before they said the priest came from Roubaix once a month and There were quite a few of us: at least a hundred! They are dead then? Yes for some, but for others they do not come not because you ask them to come every Sunday Right now. And it was better before: once a month That's enough! Look at the French they say Many Catholics and they come very rarely to The Church. Voila, my charge of the parish priest, not obvious to convince them. Some simply said; I am believers but not practice. Like the perochets they imitated their neighbors!

Our Lady of Dunes and the Queen of Poland

The Blessed Virgin Mary was with me in Dunkirk! The chapel where Poles had their monthly Mass before that we install a permanent parish priest was that of the Dunkirk sailors under the name of Notre-Dame de Dune! And the news inside the House Parish was dedicated to Our Lady, the Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen of Poland whose Feast Day was May 3rd of each year in Commemoration of the Vows of the King Jan Kazimierz of Poland (John Casimir) of 1 April 1656, that the Pope Pius XI approved in 1924 and Pope John XXIII officially proclaimed for the knowledge of the whole Church Catholic. The Blessed Virgin Mary is the Queen of Poland and her Patroness Celeste with two co-patrons and martyrs, the Bishops: Wojciech(Adalbert)Archbishop of Gniezno(956-997) and Poznań and Stanisław (Stanislaus)Archbishop of Kraków (1030-1079). The Blessed Virgin Mary! It's time I told you This: Without it I would not be where I am, with all that that I have already written. I will hide in her motherly arms to invite you to draw near to Her! I do not know: is this famous parish priest of Dunkirk also put her in prison, I hope than no. But I say clearly to the Church of France: If you are someone who no longer loves this Immaculate Conception then you will no longer be the Church of his Son! What happened after that Last Council? I've read sad things about giving up of the priesthoods by many of your sons: Then become humble to new my Church that is in France and I will love you with Mary Our Lady of Lourdes with all my heart of man, of the Christian, religious, deacon and priest! All aspects of my human nature and what grace has been able to work in me in the supernatuerelle part of my being the contribution of the Blessed Virgin Mary is préponderante! God willed this and He thus wanted to have me adopted not only by the Father Eternal but also through this Virgin and Eternal Mother! My celibacy and my chastity I owe him, I am convinced. I am very grateful to him and I am among those who will always call her blessed among all women! Obviously She received everything herself from kindness of the Creator but she does not stop saying these Thanks to all who invoke him: Hail Mary! In Dunkirk for the first time in my life of religious and diaco-priest I was alone, I lived alone. But at the same time not at all! I lived under the same roof as the Lord in the Saint Tabernacle who was in the chapel of his Mother and of our Mother; and therefore She too was there! No, I wasn't alone! And then once a month I went celebrate Mass in Boulogne-sur-Mer. Our Lady of Boulogne is also known and that of Saint-Omer. And then I had friends in Goderswelde right next to the Mont-des-Cats and the Monastery of the Bénédictains. With my friend Raoul we exchanged a lot about the Church in France. He had a small shop where he had employed a whole Franco-Polonse family; the headmistress was Thérèse. Raoul Baert was single but her soul was very beautiful, I give testimony to say that there are some true Christians in this country which is the France; He said to me: courage and as John Paul II says, we must not be afraid. In his shop he z had 0 entrance a large statue of Our Lady of Lourdes and at the cash register one could obtain small leaves with prayers. The new Evangelization I had seen there. Raoul My friend, thank you! And then, not far away, a French Lady who held France prayers in her home at home in Bambecque. And she made plaster figurines saints; Once I received from her a nativity scene thus made with his hands. She taught me, a priest at to love the Blessed Virgin. She had a piano and she said: father Casimir play "Czarna Madonna" I like a lot this melodie and song in honor of Our Lady of Częstochowa since I visited this great Sanctuary in Poland. Yes, Franco-Polish friendship exists in True and Catholics should be the first to cross borders and tear down all the walls of the prejudices and misunderstandings. Who will do it at Our place? Let us not wait for this to happen on its own!

I returns to Roubaix as parish priest

Five years spent in Dunkirk have given me a lot brought! There was also a couple who ran the garage of Fiat who lived in Arques and still lives there. Once Peugeot 107 changed for the Fiat Tipo I took acquaintance with this couple and their activity towards travel and aid to Poland: he was French Roger and she Polish Micheline. One day she calls me: We planned to take a trip to Rome but my husband may not, because of a professional impediment to accompany us; If you want, come with us! Thank you Family Demol. Thanks to you I saw Pope John Paul II in private or almost private hearings; What a beautiful memory but for you Micheline was also a soufrance, a Sacrifice: All your papers were stolen from you by bus! There you go I wanted to say that. Again to Roger who had given me His place for free: thank you. I'm finally going to go or rather return to Roubaix. I was a vicar there and I return as parish priest in dual nationality; So I am doubly parish priest. But for some French priests Nothing to do: for them to be a Polish priest is "half the price". Speaking two languages c4is one idiocy. French is enough for them. Why not but be not so Cartesian: I think therefore I am! Once in a big one Building I price the elevator: I was dressed in a suit and I wore the Roman collar. A priest Français en soutanne joined us and started me to reproach that as a Polish priest I do not must not be ashamed to wear the cassock! Another Cartesian! What he thinks must be true. But the Lord tells us made a gift to meet and encourage each other and Not to attack us like that, just by the way. The traditionalist community? Why not, who we are to judge each other when the world is dying hunger for the Word of God. There I said what I learned at Dunkirk: the habit does not make a monk! My parish priest in Roubais when I was his vicar there he told me told that he was denounced to the Bishopric of Lille (it was before the Second Vatican Council, that he allowed himself to walk in his costume with the Roman collar and even in church that he did not always wear his cassock! He was blamed also that his socks were not always black as they had to be. Someone may think that I tells here of jokes. Well, no: word of the parish priest! For the Parish Feast on August 26, 1991 I was already in Roubaix. Passage of power, the father Jan Bojda with whom I had worked before and who was the parish priest after the Old Parish priest - who had told me this sock story - Etair returned to Poland in a well-deserved retirement; The father Jan will go to Montigny-en- Ostrevent and I will have vicars to help me carry out my Mission. It was at the time a Polish Parish with a hundred children at catechism and about thirty young people in the KSMP Association. There were also young adults who gathered like the White Agle: Orzeł Biały. There was also the Choral Hejnał conducted by a doctor of Polish origin from the Regdost family. And then the Ladies of the Rosary with as President for a long time very active for many parish things Mrs. Janina Taczała. And the Gołębiowski family to whom I perhaps owe the more; she took care of the big house next door of the church for the rental of the rooms and the power of pay all taxes and material charges of this great spiritual enterprise. He Had to think about saving the walls of the church very fragile for bad weather; they could disintegrate! Providence has meant that being Accident the friendly viity of someone who wanted me console; He agreed to do the necessary work to Half price and in the end even much less! To him this Polish and to God who watches over everything: Thank you! John Paul II had launched the preparation for the Jubilee of the Year 2000. We We are put to spiritual work with the vicar: the fathers: Misrosław Stępkowicz, Roman Szaarzyński and Jerzy Goźddziewski, and Andrzej Góźdź at the beginning before he left for Rouvroy. I have already mentioned in another chapter and just now an accident that it is to me Arrived to live with in the end the left kneecap broken. It was nine days after I launched a Catholic TOTUS TUUS Association to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the priestly ordination of Pope John Paul II November 1, 1996. Nothing useful for the mind without Sacrifice in the body! I immediately understood!

The longest concelebrated Mass in my life

Before to go to Roubaix and leave Dunkirk where the father Czesław Margas took over, and I also left him my Fiat Tipo car as a legacy, I went to Poland to participate - among others - in the World Privacy Day Youth in mid-August 1991. It was just two years after the famous fall of the Berlin Wall and after My first semi-democratic elections Poland; from all over young people came to this Meeting International Christian initiated six years earlier by Pope John Paul II in the context of the new evangelization. Many young people for the first time had been able to come to the Clear Mountain of Częstochowa the Marian national shrine where there is an icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary kept at the within the Monastery of the Pauline Fathers since 1382. John Paul II returned that same year 1991 for the Second time visiting other people in May/June cities of Poland among others Skoczów where he canonized Jean Sarkander, the martyr the vvictim of quarrels between Catholics and Hussites checks. I have went to Częstochowa and in the early morning I left Our house some three kilometers remote from the Jasna Góra and I took my seat dressed in dawn for the concelebration of the Holy Mass with the Pope. Well it was in all so long and it had to stay early that neither before nor after I Never been so tired in my life as this Day. Tired but obviously very Happy to be part of such a big event historical. Every time I come back to this Sanctuary this memory comes back to me and I thank God for giving me to live in all this epoch of passage of the one millennium to the other and from a century also to the other; It doesn't happen and not everyone Who can live these unforgettable moments as it was to me arrived. I take advantage of this memory to share the common good of us Poles which consists in having the Mother of the Christ as our Queen. How did this happen? I have already written that King Jan-Kazimierz has decided to entrust his kingdom of three nations: Poland, Lithuania and Rus, and he did so at Lwów Cathedral on 1 April 1456, to entrust its Peoples facing the national mortal danger in the face of aggression Swedish to the protection of Our Lady of Częstochowa with representatives of the Catholic Episcopate of Poland by giving her the title of Queen and making herself his servant and his subject. But at the beginning of this process Official and national there are important things to report. Here they are, historiqemet verified and on. Forty-eight years before this year in 1608 of Italy in Kracivia came on pilgrimage a Jesuit named Marcinnelli as he recounted what happened to him. He knew personally 2tqnt his spiritual adviser a Young Polish Jesuit Stanislas Kostka who during his Novitiate on the eve of the Feast of the Assumption at was recalled from this world at the age of 18 years and lived heroically his life as a young man Christian. He was soon canonized and is the Patron proclaimed by the Holy See of the Jenesse Catholic. This father Marcinnelli the man of a Great spirituality and an intense mystical life has a day of the eve of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary a vision and hear the Blessed Virgin say to him: Why don't you call me not Queen of Poland; I am. Let a stranger come say in Krakow to the representative of the Church and the Royal Governance that the Blessed Virgin calls herself ReIne of Poland in the Royal City is something. This father Jesuit Marcinnelli, word of the Jesuits, did not Lied. So his insistence on it paid off and Wear them incessantly until today! In 1946 in returning from exile through Rome to Italy and Vatican asks him to go France to Lourdes and then to Hautecombe, the Crdinal the Primate of Poland, the Archbishop of Poznan and Gniezno, summons the Polish Episcopate and the People in Częstochowa to renew these Vows of loyalty to the Queen of Poland. In 1956 four hundred years later this Royal Act, lib2r2 of his internment by the government Polish comunist CardinStefan Wyszyński once again makes the Same allevice with more than a million people present on PLCE and this is reflected in all the parishes of the country. We understand why John Paul II qvqit said after his papal election: He does not there would be no Poonese Pope on the See of St. Peter if he There was no such Primate of Poland who bet everything on the Blessed Virgin Mary Queen of Poland!

Seven Years in Roubaix and Lille

In going to Roubaix I had seven years. I don't I didn't know in advance, but the Lord knew. Two place of celebrations, one of the vicars, the father Mirosław Stępkowicz desperately wanted to learn French and live alone at the Maison de Combattents in Lille and ensure permanence. Young and alone, I I did not agree too much but he got him to be thus. I knew soon it was a mistake for yielding to his revandications. The Combattents rented one of the rooms next to that of the Father Mirosław to a young Polish student and The devil had meddled in matters and a few tełps later Father Mirosław was doubly father not only spiritually and in consequence left the priesthood. Three vicars and an idea that the parish priest should not have all power and especially not Manage the fund alone, the vicars voted according to democracy: Three against one and lo and behold. had to accept that one of the vicars yours, this fund commune! We sometimes frustrated the financial disaster; since in addition the Religious of the Sacred Heart asked to be paid not just the monthly salary but also social security! The sacristine and The organist ensemble the nun insisted so much with his Superior that I acceded but it was Not a good choice either. My successor Father Antoni Ptaszkowski terminated the contract and the organist had been among the less expensive parishioners; There were even three of them. I admit that after This experience is better to be a parish priest without vicar and do not refer to democracy as if the parish resembled some association; the Demonocracy is coming at a gallop! The old house and rentals of the rooms managed by the Gołębiowskis saved Parish finances but leaks in the roof and the company who does not accomplish his decimal garnty well here I am in court with him and it drags on once you finds itself having to send the formal notices and acknowledgement of receipt. The lawyer asks you to pay in advance and you are caught at the turn almost at the bank. In addition when you with thieves who steal your money and papers and just after it's the accident of the broken kneecap and you have for a year of care or you take like a little child to walk! But this winter in addition in 1996 and Your heating system that drops and the house is flooded base; and you can't do it anymore. praise...! Well, I had suffered from this gift of being finally parish priest not for thirty people as in Dunkirk but for three hundred. It z has the price to everything and I have it learnt. The vicar who held the cash register wanted in this situation complicated having a new car; we make an impression and we satisfied his demands, he went on holiday and then pouff, the Car is scrapped. Fortunately he has nothing Uh, he comes back safe and sound. But did he learn anything? The Father Jerzy Goździewicz alone could answer. T Father Roman also wanted to have a lot of autonomy; I was too young for him to be a parish priest with three vicars. And here I think he was right. But everything I say here, even if it is true, does not does not give the exact pastoral balance sheet of these seven-year times; There are had quite a spiritual work; catechesis and otherwise normal liturgical activities. We were approaching Tertio Millenio; Pope John Paul II's program set in motion; The Year of Christ, the Year of the Holy Spirit and the Year of the Father and had to give thanks to the Saint in the year 2000 Trinity. In the Year of the Holy Spirit on new Provincial Superior Father Ryszard Oblizajek informs me that I will go to Le Creusot. Okay I will leave to replace Father Jan Ciaglo... And I will learn more for my experience human, religious, diacono-priestly and spiritual. During my service and pastoral work in Roubaix it happened to me Something I think is good for you share.

The Association Catholic TOTUS TUUS

During holidays in Poland in July 1996 and after returning to Poland August The idea of doing something special and spiritual as one makes a stele or a monument to me. crossing. I thought: Why not? We're already building here and there the statues in honor of John Paul II for History So what to do? Founding an Association under the title of his episcopal devisation: Totus Tuus! I speak around me and in the parish; about fifteen No one is up for it so we do it; On August 6, founding declaration and I seek to compose the Statutes and then we will start the 50-year anniversary of its Sacerotale ordination. I order the Banner to make Poland; and I find Father Michał Kamiński of the House General in Poznań for form and content. Totus Tuus. Deus tu es Pater noster. Virgo tu es Mater nostra. Vestris sumus in Jezu Christo. Per gratiam Spiritus Sancti. Colour yellow/papal and blue/Marian. The white cross on one side signifying the Eucharist and the PX sign of the other meaning peace. The Bishop of Lille Jean Vilnet and requested to prove it and the Holy Father John Paul II is asked to bless her! It all happened done as desired and the Association Started. It was necessary for Providence to add To this project some personal sacrifices and I give thanks to God for this. But I also thank the Sinte Vierge because that she wanted me on this occasion to give a sign Onsolateur. And it went like this: I was reading an interesting book about his appearances everywhere. in the world and at the time of finishing it to read and closing a phone call pops up: It was my friend Raoul near Dunkirk. Listen to Csimir! There are has a group of pilgrims to Medjugorje from here who has a small problem. The Benedictine monk who had to accompany them cannot. Could you do? I have been hearing for some time that the Saint Virgin Mary Queen of Peace attracts to this Village of Bosnia and Herzegovina crowds of partour people they come to listen its messages delivered through six Young Clairvoyant, I thought I would go one day, but to have a such a proposal in the circumstances described above, with the promise of Pope John Paul II that he would pray for the Association during its apostolic journey to Frence in next October (1996) on the tomb of Sqint Luis Grignont de Monfort, the author of "True Devotion to the Saint Virgin Mary" who inspired the priest Karol Wojtyła for his episcopal motto when at age of 38 the Pope calls him to the Episcopate; All this upset me and I asked my Provincial to be able to go to Medjugorje by accompanying this group of Catholics from the French Frandre. I got it received and I replied to Raoul that he can inform this group of my positive response. The Church still studies these phenomena today. in Medjugorje and the problem is that it does not does not stop so that it can decide definitively. As a man I give my testimony and as a "Christian, religious, deacon and priest" I refer to the judgment of the Church when it will intervene. Among the participants of this trip was a man that his wife convinced to go with her only to accompany him

"touristically"; and this man had to lodge in the same room as me; Seeing my Roman collar he panicked: they made me stay with a priest! Sir, do not be afraid, I am the man Like you, you risk nothing; But you will tell me about the religion! Sir, listen to me: I promise not to Talk with you about that, about CCord? Three days later, He was the one who wanted to ask me about these Topics; I saw him changing before my eyes; No Sir, go to the other priests will listen to you; I will hold My promise and my word that I gave you! In this same period "Seven

years in Roubaix" I had a joy, thanks to the generosity of a parishioner Helena Kamińska to make two great Pilgrimages: to Our Lady of Fatimaa in Portugal and in the footsteps of St. Paul Apostle in Greece. Thank you Helena, the Polish for this and for other things! Do you see? The tests that I described in the previous chapter are perfectly balanced by consolations and the joys that Divine Providence knew and willed to offer me and I thank Him for everything!

The Pilgrimages have brought me a lot

I considers that all my travels are pilgrimages and even all my life I live it as a pilgrimage permanent. And I know that this vision of things corresponds to perfectly to what teaches us the Holy Scriptures. But here I would like to come back in a small summary on the five major trips of my life: to the Holy Land, to Greece, in Italy, Portugal and Lourdes in France. From Częstochowa I have already said quite a few and of Medjugorje I am held to reserve. For Morocco it was a Tourist trip: let's put it this way. I am happy to walk in the footsteps of Christ Jesus as philosically as spiritually. The world of the Bible and the films about the Bible are my apostilic priority; You can see it on my website For example: http://casimir.kuczaj.free.fr/

that unforgettable moment of this most important pilgrimage In my life nothing is the same as before! The footsteps of Saint Paul! That Do you want? His fourteen books out of twenty-seven of the New Testament proves if there was a need that we can't do it to pass from Saint Paul if we want to evangelize again today! I will mention only my discovery ecumenical. The Lady Guide at a certain moment began To say that Catholic baptism by sprinkling was not not at the same level as Orthodox baptism by immersion; There were several French priests only (I already had dual nationality) And none had reacted to these offensive remarks: I said: Madam what you say is hurtful to the Catholics that we are, never repeat again this sentence does not respect the Church of Rome! The visit in the Hill of Five Monastery such a discovery at the counter of ecumenism: the Bishop Orthodox was in canonical visitation of one of these Monastery and we met him; He gave us spoke kindly and then at the end of the meeting a Priests of our pilgrimage asked for it to give us His blessing; What was my surprised when he said: No, I can't, we must first may your Pope of Rome come on his knees to ask forgiveness for this that the Catholics had done to the Orthodox. I said: Still a long road to Christian unity if That's how they think the Orthodox Greeks. I saw in Athens the tremor of earth; Rest assured nothing so grâve but when in the night I had the impression by revealing myself of hover I went down and the other people too taking the elevator or the stairs - I don't remember well- I had spent three hours outside of a large and high hotel. For Italy: I have already mentioned Rome and the Pope; I would like to add Assisi and the encounter with this symbolic Place for the dialogue between relocations since a gesture of John Paul II in October 1986. The Second Vatican Council made an overture in this sense And why not? But never at the cost of "sacrificing the Very Holy Trinity: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Cartesian or "traditionalist" minds monoteîstes" will say that the account is not good; but it is enough not to want to put oneself the One God under the powers of his own little reason and to accept trust him in As He had revealed in Jesus Christ so that the Interreligious dialogue be maintained! And finally the Marian question: through Fatima and Lourdes. In time distance of two centuries of so-called "modern" times and others would say "modernists" from the top of Heaven there was at the minus these two majers signs for the Church and for Humanity whole. What has been done with it? Pope Paul VI in Seeing that to widen the paths of "luck" ecumenical" Trends are being created for moving the Blessed Virgin somewhere where She could less Disturbing the Protestants has risen to the niche and delivered the speech on "the Marialis cultus" and proclaimed the Blessed Virgin publicly as "Mother of the Church". He "saved the furniture" as they say. But the "modernist" trend continues. and we would like to prevent Heaven from expressing itself also in our time. It is still believed that the Holy Spirit spoke by the prophets, but may the Mother of the Redeemer be sent in recent times as a Prophetess it is hard to believe. I am speaking in general seeing how the love of Christians diminishes and cools to this Beautiful Lady. It is still called Notre Dame but She wanted to say to Lourdes and Fatima: I am your Mother by the will of the Holy Trinity!

I discover that I have an older Sister

The new evangelization and the TOTUS Association TUUS as the instrument for this launched at Roubaix began to worry the opponent i.e. the devil! Oh no I don't see the devil everywhere but sometimes I know his manipulation by interposed human weaknesses. All Saturdays qvec the Statue of Our Lady of Fatima celebrations for the conversion of the world beginning with our Parish in Roubaix and Lille caused a stir and in May(13 May Feast of ND of Fatima) the Superior the Father Ryszard Oblizajek comes to tell me that parishioners are not happy and I must be transferred to Le Creusot! All right No problem! But I already know "the trademark of my opponent": he operates by a clandestine and by pressure on coscience: that of the Superior and mine too. But as a religious I am Let move even at the end of the world! I say goodbye at the Parish of Our Lady of Częstochowa in Roubaix Grande Rue and at the Polish Chapel of Saint Etienne street Military Hospital in Lille and I move to go to Le Creusot near Challons-sur-Saône and Lyon. I didn't really know about Sister Faustina, who was beatified on the Sunday after Easter in 1993 and I did not yet know his Little Journal or the Messages concerning Divine Mercy even if in my Parish originally in Gołkowice in Poland this Icon-Image with the lyrics: Jezu, ufam Tobie! (Jesus, I have trust in You!) had been challenging me for a long time. But the Lord took the time to reveal to me that I had a Big Sister in Heaven and it was the Saint Faustina! I won't find out until the day of his Canonization in April of the Holy Year 2000 to the opening of the Third Millennium! But first We had to continue to have trials and do A lot of sacrifices. I discovered it on the spot in arriving at Le Creusont and beginning my ministry priestly. My predecessor, Father Jan Ciągło had I'm going through things worse than I did, and I know he was holding good because we come from the Region and the Country that was subjected to oppression of all kinds. As I have Already mentioned in the chapters on love of Poland inked in us. This parish has been entrusted to our Congregation in a situation of conflict; the former parish priest did not want to leave Father Józef Nowacki religious but disobedient and the new From the beginning, the parish priest had to deal with a divided Community. Father Jan was one of them. very upset and with his human sensitivity and spiritual he asked the Provincial to be freed from it. So it was now up to me to move on to the Crucible (interesting pun)! But, unlike What you might think the opponent was waiting for me rather on the French side more than on the side Polish parish. I said to myself: I am appointed to Monchanin as parish priest in solidum (for the French) I wanted to take initiatives to launch a new evangelization and this displeased the Clergy. Always the same song: You're still a Polish; you don't have to deal with the Polish way; one is in France common sense! I sent to the Bishop d'Autun a File on my projects for the passage of a Millennium to the other by writing that this doesn't happen often and... it was decided that the Year Holy I would not live her whole there. I had According to some priests was wrong to insist: "French priests don't like unwelcome". My insistence was on the Internet: requested permission to use it oEffectively for this new evangelization and I have proposed the Site: DOMINUS VOBISCUM! Is it Latin that has them more reverberated or my insistence; No one has me Nothing said. They wrote to my Provincial: We must Take it off and then that's how it is! The vice-provincial, my predecessor at Le Creusot informed me of that by phone and it was in the week after the Sunday of the Canonization of the Saint Faustina. This is how God revealed me that I had a Big Sister in Heaven. A Frenchwoman after having participated with his Family in Rome this Sunday made me called after and invited me to their Table to tell me about it: I listened to his Testimonial and his reflections already thinking than to Abscon in the North where I should return this This would be my pastoral priority; What I was doing during ten years before being sent here to Bordeaux!

"Dominus Vobiscum" a website to evangelize

If I was polishing the Polish version of these memories of my Vocation to love there would be more to say because my pastoral work was primarily for Polish Catholics and a lot was going on in this area, which I am dealing with here only partially, so as not to Clutter readers of the French language. I was committed to my priestly ministry at Le Creusot and at Le Creusot. Monchanin serenely despite this problem of a Concurrent religious priest who continued to live in the Polish House and be supported by the elders collaborators and a Polish association that thought this good common built with the money of the Poles transmit to the final neither to the Polish Catholic Mission in France nor to our Congregation but at the Restorants du Coeur du monsieur Coluche! I thought to myself what drift of democracy or It only takes one vote and 49.9 percent can do nothing in This case: If we introduced this kind of democracy in the Church, which fortunately is hierarchical, and she already has A lot of problems elsewhere, but with so-called democracy We would be sure to have the voice of perdition! Free time if you can to say thus to Le Creusot it was the creation of the Internet Site which always works within my means of an amateur and apprentice. I progress slowly but I am interested in creation of newness. This blog where we are now - me who Write and you who read is the latest discovery and you see that it works and I even know How much you are reading me. For this site that I am talking about and that began to exist. The Holy Year 2000 What you want and if you prefer to listen appointment You on the mission page> http://casimir.kuczaj.free.fr/Mission/mcp.htm

The Prayer offered by members of the TOTUS TUUS Association serves to ask for the Spirit Saint to take care of the rest. Readers and listeners only to be docile to Him and salvation will come to dwell in their hearts and souls for the glory of God. Nothing is perfect but perfection is the domain of God alone! A lot of things come back to knowing God and the One He sent Jesus Christ. Thereupon site you can go to the page of the Apostolate of the Divine

Mercy and you are at the heart of the system >http://casimir.kuczaj.free.fr/Francais/Jeunes/misericorde_divine.htm

elsewhere it is from this page that we were able to trover this BLOG where We are now you and I, aren't we? Efficiency of this work is found in God's love for us and depends on the love of our return and our love mutual. If you have read my Blog correctly you have understood that My Vocation is to Love and I believe that it is also yours because it is universal. Saint Thérèse of Lisieux was my first Big Sister of Heaven before Saint Faustina and There are between them all the Two a lot of resemblance. Arriving four years ago 0 Bordeaux I discovered that there was before these two Saintes a Sister Charlotte Lamourou who lived in Bordeaux and whose tomb is at Pian le Médoc and who already had In his time divine inspirations on the divine mercy. In the next time I will m4y interresser de Closer! If you wish to write to me or correspond on the sijets mentioned in this Bolog or even the entire Site here is the mail> catholique@orange.fr My Site in French> https://catholique.pagesperso-orange.fr/index.html It is precisely through this website that I can best express my love of the Catholic Church and through her all the Nations of the world and the French nation in particular. The site in French is in my opinion richer than the Polish part! Check by even that it is true. I know that the Holy Spirit does the same for the people He wants to lead to full knowledge of the truth and the Great Revelation. If you want not to stay Selfishly satisfied with your own deception but to contribute to the conversion of other humans then does not Be not inactive but ask the Lord God: What do I owe do? And follow your conscience! In the summer you will discover the fruits of your love for God and vis-à-vis your neighbors! Cheer up! And God bless your goodwill!

The beginning of the Third Millennium

The department back after the Creusot getaway is the same one I had lived in before almost all the time of my presence in France: It is the Department of the North. But it covers two dioceses: before I was in the Diocese of Lille and I am sent now in the year 2000 to the Diocese of Cambrai. I succeed Father Jan Guzikowski at Abstruse and two years later I also take charge of the Mission in Escoudain which is still served by Father Jan Kałuża. The two Polish Missions have existed for about sixty years. But they were Missions for the Families of the Minor. The new generation will see these mine sites as heritage and many will leave the region for look for work elsewhere. Ten years of a mission quiet without difficulties and I could Still continue until today there but the Providence wanted to send me to Bordeaux in 2010. Let us return to the beginnings of pastoral work in Abscon, Escaudain, Vicoigne, Marly, and Raillancourt-sur-Ôle, all near Cambrai. In Vicoigne the Polish community very active did a lot of things with the president of the Association created in 1989 Mr Filip Buniowski. This community where I was going to celebrate Holy Mass once a month was the pride Polish in deeds and installed the beautiful stele on the Place de Vicogne in commemoration 80th anniversary of the arrival of Polish emigration to the Region. quiet pastoral work of these ten years the Divine Providence helped me cope with events painful on other areas and gave me to Also live the joyful moments. I begin with joyful which is spend 50 years of life on Earth in January 2002 and the 25th - years of priestly ordination in 2003. But between these two events on September 23, 2002 God recalled of this world my Mother at the age of 76. And then the October 5, 2004 it was mom Papa who left this world. Fly with my Brothers and Sisters we are Now under the sky the next generation to to be called from this world to the day that God will choose for each individually. We realize of the enormous work that our Dear Parents had done for us and especially for the glory of God. 26 grandchildren are the fruits of their lives with that of their children of the first generation. Big thank you again and again our dear ones Parents Janina and Antoni. Goodbye in Heaven! In the workplace pastoral it was the Icon-Image of the Divine Mercy only with a parishioner Krystyna Albarez-Martinek aue we tried to make known and love! In Abscon this Icon passed from house to house for a while and after that it always remains at view in front of the Tabernacle at the Parish Church. Other Evangelization initiative it was the radio mission in Polish of one hour per month on the Radio of Aremberg. After Father Jan left Kałuża d'Escaudain my Mission has expanded by this territory. I was now celebrating Masses Sundays alternately in one or the other locality. We organized fraternal meetings and lived peacefully. The Father Jan Guzikowski my predecessor at Abscon came on a Sunday to celebrate its 50-year anniversary of priestly life. Mr and Mrs Alfred and Regina Marciniak helped me a lot in this Mission of Abscon and Mr Pierre Kamowski similarly in the Mission de l'Escaudain, and his wife who are neighbors in the rue Voltaire. The Hall with the Chapel dedicated to Divine Mercy in Escaudain costracized by the care of Father Józef Wąchała have made it possible to make spiritual and fraternal encounters that warmed the hearts of all. With my departure it is Father Andrzej Sowowski of Montigny-en-Ostrevent who took the relay but only for one Mass per month in the church of Abscon. I thank God for all that He allowed me to living with Persons who have benefited from My priestly service and final celebration before I leave for Bordeaux!

The Polish Catholic Mission of Saint John Paul II

We Let's come to the last chapter of this journey of my life in summary to share the grace of existence! We are well at Bordeaux at least as far as I'm concerned for four years already. Before me the Society of Christ had sent the Father Jarosław Kucharski in 2007. He celebrated the Holy Mass in Polish once a month at the chapel of the Seminary and had pastoral work for the Parish of Castelnau de Médoc and surroundings. For the Provincial the father Jan Ciągło it was not enough. So we told him writes that if he sends another religious priest without removing the one who is already there we will take care of Poles and he will have a job part-time pastoral care in the Bordeaux Centre sector. I have Already talked about the latest events who made a lot of noises but it's still my opponent who is trying to make me leave because I am preparing to an action on Divine Mercy and this is to him unbearable. I've been celebrating for four years Holy Mass for Poles at the church of Saint Nicholas and then I celebrated the Saturdays of Early Sunday Masses for the Parishes of the Sector which was recently taken from me and I visits five retirement homes in Caudéran; The latter pastoral work I keep. I believe the Lord wants to expand this Mercy beyond the Sector is Why did he allow such a blow against me! May the Lord be rented! Some chapters of this Memoir make referencing the situation and I defend myself before an injustice. I do not publish for the moment anything that could interfere with the smooth running of things: I live in Hope! The Polish community mobilizes also so that the Polish priest can be at their service even if there are not many as Practitioners. But what is difficult to obtain or to Keep is more valuable which is easy. I'm getting ready to leave but only on holiday and after in September I will resume the service in Caudéran for the French and Saint Nicholas for Poles. What I wrote about my love for Poland was expanded on the France and on all the Nations of the World. Our Church is the Divine Community on the Plan God's supernatural. The Second Vatican Council did not want to distancing humanity from the Message of the Gospel But on the contrary: it is a question of saving the greatest number possible members of humanity! We are weak without the help of God and His grace. We have to keep hope! Basing our future on promises of God and on His Love! It was to me give during this journey to preach three retreats: One for the Religious, one for the Religious and one for the Christians Poles in Germany. Every year for parishioners Polish too I try to propose in Lent the Spiritual exercises that can be called "retreat". The Society of the Merciful Christ that I would like to propose where possible will have for purpose to prolong in spiritual fruits all that God already has deposited in my nature of man and Christian. For you I am Bishop and with you I am Christian- said St. Augustine. I take that word for myself. For you I I am a priest and deacon and religious, and with you I am Man and Christian. Christians have their place in evangelization but must be continuously informed and trained. The very Strong in obtaining graces for evangelization is the Holy Rosary; the Rosary is the humble prayer and Sim cardbut very close to the Gospel in its Mysteries. Once again I say my thanks to all the people I have had the grace to meet and to serve and receive their services and I pray God to grant them All the graces necessary for us to be able to together glorify him for eternity. For Conclude - Pending the continuation of the events - I quote a fragment of the Charter for the Evangelization of Tramplin for the Mission of the diocese of Bordeaux from the page 4:"To evangelize is to allow everyone to find one's place in the Church and in society, it is to offer a place to the one who has none, It is to be able to say to each and every one: " You have a future! "In every encounter we must be in this profound respect for the mystery of the person. As the recalls Pope Francis, "true love is contemplative". The opposite of evangelization it is exclusion, it is telling the other "You have no room! If you want a future among us, You have to change! "Jesus took the opposite position: He who was of divine condition, he took the place of the excluded." It happened that I was put in the Information of the Catholic Church in Gironde of the June 2014 among priests who "are called to other services outside the Diocese of Bordeaux". Before concluding, I quote a small passage from this Charter from the following page: " WELCOMING THE DIFFERENCE LIKE A RICHNESS... Our communities are attentive to the reception of foreigners; It is not to assist the host but to encourage him, by the Weaving reassuring links, to find strength and will to continue his difficult journey. These meetings have a sacred dimension, a dimension of simplicity, of humility, of gratuitousness in reciprocal giving". Violà what is clear and very well affirmed and which reassures me about the information displayed by elsewhere, even in the Catholic Church in Gironde. She cannot contradict itself but only say and write truth! Since I am the religious priest of the Society of Christ and my Provincial did not have me transferred from my post as missionary of Bordeaux, I find myself thus unjustly expounded on the public forum by a public action information which is itself in contradiction obvious vis-à-vis the Charter of the Gospel recently promulgated by the Archbishop of Bordeaux, the Crdinal Jean-Pierre Ricard. I will support cost what does this Charter and Him who is its author cost, and I participate in the Stepping Stone to Mission even if we proclaim here or there that I am excluded!

The Charter of Evangelization of the Diocese of Bordeaux

CHARTER EVANGELIZATION A springboard for mission

Thank you pastoral sectors, services and movements, religious communities, prayer and solidarity, to diverse teams, to all those and those who contributed to the drafting of this charter. It is nourished by your initiatives and projects, your Achievements and your wishes, convictions and doubts, signs of the evangelical vitality of our Communities! By your words gathered in this document, you testify to your search for a way of being the Church of Christ in a changing world. By your desire to generate a New fraternity, you affirm that evangelization is not a simple strategy for transmitting the Evan- But an invitation to become "a Church that is convers- tion" (Paul VI, Ecclesiam Suam). Let us give thanks for all these shared riches! Building on your convictions, your experience and suggestions, but above all on what the Lord is already doing among us by His Spirit I promulgate this Charter of Evangelization for our dio- cesis. May it sustain the momentum missionary of all our communities!

Castle Moulérens (Gradignan) Whit Monday, 9 June 2014

† Jean-Pierre Cardinal RICARD Archbishop of Bordeaux Bishop of Bazas La Charter of Evangelization - A Springboard for Mission 3

1/ To proclaim the Gospel is to live forever more in the intimacy of Christ!

" I invite Every Christian, wherever and wherever he is find, to renew today his meeting personal with Jesus Christ or, at least, to take the decision to let himself be met by him, to look for him every day without stopping. (Pope Francis: The Joy of The Gospel (E.G), n° 3) To be a bearer of a word that does good, that liberates, that warms, a creative word, it is necessary- to listen to the One who opens A future for man: "Listen to Israel!" Dt 6.4. "The Church cannot live without the lung of the prayer" (EG No. 262) To live in presence of God, we must learn to discover the companionship with Christ who precedes us over all the paths... Nurturing our friendship with Him through sharing the Word and rereading life... Recognize the work of the Spirit in our lives... Take personal time for renewal, creating, as we do invites Pope Francis, "from the places where to renew one's faith in Jesus crucified and risen, where to share your deepest questions and daily concerns, where to do in depth and with evangelical criteria discernment on one's own existence and experience, in order to orient towards the good and the beautiful its individual and social choices. " (E.G., No. 77). God loves, lifts up and saves all men. True, many live without believing in a savior God. But it gives us It is necessary to show that faith is a profound good fortune, the happiness of being feel loved by God, a God who saves by lowering oneself, which demands everyone's freedom. " Before we leave for WYD in Rio, we were invited to reread the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles". A young man from the diocese

The Charter of Evangelization - A Springboard for Mission4

MAKE THANKS... • For the presence of communities contemplative and apostolic religious, • For groups Reading the Bible, • For times of worship, meditation, worship, • For times of sharing in the within movements and services, • For resourcing our communities, • For accompaniment spiritual requested and offered, • For deployment training proposals.

2/ To proclaim the Gospel is to welcome and to be let welcome!

Evangelizing It is to allow everyone to find their place in the Church and in society is to offer A place for those who have none is power say to everyone: "You have a future!" In every encounter, we must be in this deep respect of the mystery of the person. As Pope Francis reminds us, "True love is contemplative." The contrary to evangelization it is exclusion is saying to the other "You Don't have room! If you want a future among us, you need change! "Jesus took the opposite position: He who was of divine condition, he took the place of the excluded.

" I know that the Spirit is at work in my mission. Through prayer, I confided in the Lord that He may sustain me. " A catechist

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WELCOME DIFFERENCE AS WEALTH... Our Communities are attentive to the reception of the foreigner; It is not a question of assisting the host but of encourage it, by forging reassuring links, to find the strength and the will to pursue one's challenge route. These encounters have a sacred dimension, a dimension of simplicity, humility, gratuitousness in reciprocal giving. To evangelize is Reaching all forms of poverty: accepting seek, with those who knock at our door, the way to their own freedom, so that they, too, can Their turn, share and give. "Sometimes we are tempted to be Christians who maintain themselves at a prudent distance from the Lord's wounds. Yet Jesus wants us to touch human misery, suffering flesh of the others" (E.G., No. 270). We need to listen in the presence of this God who comes to ask Help. Then, paths of Peace open. He gives us We must listen respectfully to the burdens that are on us entrusted, and thus try to enlighten, with that who visits us, a possible path. " Give to your servant a heart that listens " 1 Kings 3, 9

WELCOME IN THE MOMENT open to the unexpected: Do not make those who have often waited a long wait wait before daring to knock on the door. There is a moment of through seize, or rather serve. The Catechumenal proposals possible today, allow us to be more responsive.

" I believe that God believes in us, in reality, in the future, in our dreams, in prayer." Word of a young adult with trisomy 21.

" We We are sometimes in a pastoral care of the "small step" (it takes time...), listening to the one To whom we are sent, sometimes in a relationship of the snapshot that we must welcome (it must seize the moment...). When we knock on the door of a sick person's room, we hear" Come in! ", and perhaps, then, we will hear " Stay! ", the first stage of a companionship of two human roads that met ". A hospital chaplain.

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WELCOME WITHOUT PREJUDICE "Who am I to judge?" " Here I stand at the door and knock on Rev 3:20. The other is always inhabited by the presence of the Christ silently illuminating his existence. Welcome it is to hope in the other beyond this that he says of himself. The Church is a sign of the confidence of God to his people.

WELCOME LEADS TO CONVERSION To evangelize is to divest oneself. We are called to change posture, to receive as much as to To give. The most destitute, the excluded, speak to us about God: they reveal the gospel to us and us Challenge. Living evangelization is to welcome the grace of encounter is the Lord which awaits us through the encounter with the brother. To welcome is to "do with and together", and not doing things for others, doing things for the place of others, because it would simply be taking their place! To welcome is to open oneself to hospitality reciprocal.

WELCOME IS TO CALL TO EVANGELIZE, IT IS TO CALL! To evangelize is to say, "I trust in you, God trust in you!" Say and repeat to all that we need everyone, that everyone can be recognized within the community, that there is no of "little talents"

" We spent twice 5 days in the favelas of Rio. We We were all welcomed as a family. People who didn't have much gave us everything... To be a missionary is to let oneself be welcomed... " Testimony of young people of the diocese

" Home-coffee " proposed before Sunday Mass in the entrance of the Church: initiative to welcome people who arrive before Mass and particularly encourage people who are isolated or have difficulty taking into account Loads this service.

" Home-News " proposed at the entrance and at the Exit of Sunday Mass in the church: initiative the reception service to answer questions and Requests from people who do not have contact with the community parish only on Sundays.

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MAKE THANKS... • For the inventiveness deployed in order to offer always welcoming presences more adapted to everyone's life • For the sake people in a host situation to train more, to Allow time for personal and team proofreading • For attention, listening and respect present in each meeting • For "coffees" of the heart" and other forms of presence...

3/ To proclaim the Gospel is to go to the Meet and invent new paths!

HOMELESSNESS IS ONE OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE COVENANT PEOPLE. Listening to the Gospel invites us to an inner displacement. We are called to living fidelity to the deep orientation of our life which is our faith. But loyalty projects us into mobility: if I am available at the call of the Lord, I am, therefore, set in motion. Abraham is the first witness: "Go, leave your country... "Genesis 12,1. We have to move in our ways of being, of doing... " The intimacy of the Church with Jesus is a Itinerant intimacy... True to the model of the Master, it is vital that today the Church to proclaim the Gospel to all, in all places, on all occasions, without hesitation, without repulsion and fearless" (EG, No. 23).

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• For Those moments when each of us turned away of the planned path, following the example of Moses and the burning bush, detour in our habits, displacement with our gaze, to testify to a

Church which is born of the encounter. • For these weeks missionaries, where the encounter arises from the crossing of two paths, where the same Spirit is at work in each, where the initial face-to-face of the first contact can turn into side by side, companions of the same road... • For B'ABBA encounters that are born in the different Sectors of the diocese: moments of trust when one can share questions, questions from so far away that we no longer knows how to formulate them: "Why suffering?... Believing in life despite everything... Being parents, a galley, A passion ?... " • For Alpha courses that allow everyone to discover or rediscover the basics of the Christian faith, to share its Questions about the meaning of life, in a fraternal atmosphere over a meal; for the "Alpha-health" course " which brings together caregivers who listen of God present in their lives in contact with suffering, " When I visit a person of nationality stranger in his clinic room, I propose him that we pray together the Lord's Prayer, each in his own language kindergarten. " A clinic chaplain

" The experience of the last week of mission led us on paths that we had not considered too much at the beginning : Go to: We went to meet the inhabitants asking them to welcome us for lunch in front of their homes, with neighbours and friends. " I didn't have I don't want to come," a lady told me who went on to declaring: "Fortunately I answered At the invitation of my neighbour, thank you for having me allowed to speak in truth. " We are also went to meet the inhabitants in their homes. Very Often surprised, often happy, they, like us, appreciated these meetings. - In the review of our practice we have perceived the urgency of prayer to accompany these Meetings. They are brothers, sisters, to whom we have the happiness to say, "The Kingdom of God is everything close to you". Testimony gathered during a Mission Week

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• For The new rhythms in our times of gathering and Celebration: The KTvacances that offers to take a free time for God during the holidays, inviting comrades who do not usually come to the cate, The " Sundays differently ", weekends " Celebrate as brethren", in order to "enable God to meet his entire people", and many others initiatives that demonstrate the creativity of The Spirit...

DARE A FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT Many of our contemporaries did not never heard of Christ and do not know His Good Short story. Some are indifferent or on the re- serve, because they don't know him. Others have been educated in another culture, or seek it without know how to find it. " All have the right to receive the gospel. " (EG, No. 14). We have to seize all the opportunities that arise during of our meetings to say, as Pope Francis tells us, invite: "Jesus Christ loves you, he gave His life to save you, and now He is alive by your side every day to enlighten you, to strengthen you, to release. " (EG, No. 164).

"God in the misfortune of the world, it is the One who washes the feet." Shared word in a meeting of the Alpha-Santé journey

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THE THERE ARE MANY NEW WAYS TO PROCLAIM THE GOSPEL Evangelism is creative! The personal encounter, such as the use of technology News, renewed pedagogies, the proposal time of celebration, prayer and "different" encounters, testify to the desire to reach everyone. Let's go to those who have given up The desire to believe... Let us remember that there is Different gateways to the faith: the liturgy, the Bible, art, literature, music, Cinema... Let's not forget that the internet is A valuable means of communication, a multiplier of invitations, a new version of " Come and Follow me "evangelical!

MAKE THANKS... • For all these skills put at the service of the proclamation of the Gospel. •For the care taken in the display, the making flyers, setting up websites lively, easy to consult, outward-looking to provide an information relay for local life, accessible for people who come to the Church of occasionally. • For harmonization Thought between websites and newspapers parishes, between the different sites of the same pastoral ensemble. • For the space offered by some sites of our diocese to deposit messages that testify to the personal journey of each one, a shared prayer, a moment of personal encounter with Christ...

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LIVE A NEW FRATERNITY WITHIN OUR COMMUNITIES We must be attentive, beyond what we do together, to what we are, to what we become together, through complementarity of our vocations. Communities express the desire to to build a Church where a communion of communication grows. ammunition. Certainly, organization is necessary and important, but the important thing is not to have a Perfect organization, that's how we let us live, even in its imperfections, which is the way of the Gospel and learning about fraternal life.

The Pope Francis warns us against "a Depersonalization of pastoral care that leads to giving greater attention to organization than to persons" (EG, No. 82). Let us ask ourselves the question: in everything that exists in our pastoral sector, where there is the joy of the gospel? Where the joy of the Gospel Is she absent?

MAKE GRACE... • For bridges, transversality woven within our communities, services diocesan, movements between them, movements apostolic with the local Church, • For desire a living communion within the celebrations, in particular by greater attention in mutual reception, by a visibility of people more particularly responsible for being attentive to newcomers, • For twinning between sectors, exchange times between communities,

" I have long remained a "foreigner" within the parish assembly; a plug of Community consciousness allowed everyone to enter in a mutual welcome at the beginning of the Mass".

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• For the desire to further build intergenerational ties, especially in local charitable actions, • For Days of the "guest servants" who bring together people committed to the service of communities: time for exchange, rejuvenation, of mutual support, which bring together in the Church all those who are servants of the community, or called to the being.

LIVE A NEW FRATERNITY WITHIN SOCIETY The Church does not live for herself, she is called to be in the world and for the world, the sign of the joy that God gives in his Son. Evangelism tion, it is a humanization of our relationships, a presence listening, proposing faith through witness of our own life, daring to say for what and for whom we Act. "The Church does not grow by proselytism, but "by attraction". (EG, No. 14). The announcement of the Gospel transforms our way of being related. We see the involvement of Christians in the life of the city, through political commitments, trade unions and associations. This immersion of Christians in Local action, at the service of others, is a source evangelism. " This " meal of the Neighbors " was a "meal of the world"! This makes Good to discover that the other who worries by His image in society, is in fact, a being human whose concerns, mainly protection and love of family, are not far away of ours. Our outlook is different in the aftermath of this meeting. Testimony taken the day after a Neighbours' Day proposed by a pastoral sector

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This goes hand in hand with all that can be presence and visibility of the Church within local life. " Jesus himself is the model of this evangelical choice which introduces us to the heart of the people. What good this does us to see him close to everyone... Seduced by this model, We want to integrate ourselves deeply into the society, sharing everyone's life and listening their concerns, collaborate materially and Spiritually with them in their needs, we rejoice with those who are joyful, rain with those who cry and commit to building a world New, shoulder to shoulder with the others. " (EG, No. 269).

MAKE THANKS... • For the many collectives and associations that bring together Christians and non-Christians, • For active presence in neighborhoods, and particularly in multi-family buildings, • For the Christian partnership with cultural initiatives and local festivities, • For churches with open doors on market days and events in the municipality, • For multiple signs of a " pastoral care of proximity", in particular through the presence of of the many pastoral relays, of the Evangelical Service of the Sick... • For parish open tables, and Neighbours' feasts initiated by the parishes, which are born here and there, • For apostolic movements Attentive to be present in places where the message of the Gospel has become distant, • For signs of visibility of the Church within the city: "café Theo", celebrations in the open air, Pastoral Relay of Solidarity, Night of the churches... • For these multiple initiatives by which everyone feels called to do "the little bit that depends of us " St. Teresa of Avila " I used to visit sick people in my neighborhood. and I testified of the gospel" in the name of my faith." Since I joined the team from the S.E.M (Evangelical Service of the Sick), I understood that I met people "in the name of the Church," thus participating in a common pastoral solicitude. " A visitor to the SEM

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Follow Christ is at the same time entering into his intimacy and participate in his mission: "As the Father has told me: sent, in my turn, I send you. " Jn 20:21 The love of God who calls us is the same as that of who sends us. "Mission is a passion for Jesus but, at the same time, a passion for his people" (EG, n°268) We must get out of the in-between, dare to simplicity in the expression of our faith, being messengers "of eternal novelty" (EG, No. 11) In the free of charge of a reception, a visit, the Holy Spirit is at work: the Visit is sacrament of the brother. We are sent as servants of Hope. It is at Each of them now write new pages in this Great book of evangelization. " In throughout the life of the Church, it must always be manifested that the initiative comes from God, that it is "he who loved first" (1 Jn 4:19) and that "it is God alone who gives growth" (1 Cor 3:7)" (EG, No. 12). The Lord entrusts us with His Gospel. Let's welcome him and Let us witness his joy!

SECOND PART: THE REASONS AND DECISIONS IN THE BORDEAUX VINEYARD. MY LETTERS TO CARDINAL JEAN-PIERRE RICARD

Casimir Kuczaj SChr, priest 13, Place Sainte Eulalie

33000 Bordeaux Bordeaux, Holy Monday 14 April 2014 To his Eminence the Cardinal

John Pierre RICARD Archbishop of Bordeaux

Sir the Cardinal and my Father Bishop,

It's with amazement that I learned from the mouth of your Vicar General, Father Jean Rouet, met on April 7, that it is likely that I am no longer authorized to exercise my ministry in the bosom of the Church, which Christ Jesus has entrusted to you, because of my 'spirituality and mentality' which would not suit 'French pastoral care'.

After Having scrutinized my conscience and prayed, I asked the Lord Jesus in the following days, what I must do, given that I found myself deeply offended by the arguments put forward by my Unfit to 'the French mentality' because of my spirituality and mentality Polish and also by a certain disavowal for the charisma that I had received with my religious and priestly vocation within the Congregation Societas Christi.

I give thanks to Jesus Christ for having me chosen to serve Him in the priesthood, as well as His Church, for the salvation of the souls of Polish emigrants, that I have been practicing for thirty-two years in France. I know my Indignity and inadequacy in the accomplishment of one's Holy Will; I am getting older and prepares for the final encounter with Him.

Nevertheless I feel a certain oppression on my freedom of conscience, in memory of the words heard, and a certain spiritual discrimination, as if they were playing with me 'à cause of my Polish spirituality and mentality', without my being at fault, except, perhaps, 'to be myself.' I believe Christ Jesus pushes me to write to you. That is why I address you This letter to ask you not to resort to pressure on me through my Provincial, Jean Ciaglo. To him I asked to be able to stay at Bordeaux to possibly defend my rights and my Honor as a Christian – priest – religious and as a French citizen.

I leaves it to my Provincial, as Jesus did. in relation to his Father, referring to only to His own works that He performed moreover in perfect obedience to this same Father. I came to Bordeaux in obedience to my Congregation including the Provincial, Father Jean Ciaglo, in charge of the Major Superior in France and Spain. I trusts Jesus who will guide him by his Spirit on the true path of God's rights and human rights according to the Gospel, so that our mission that Christ may confide in his Church and in the world be well accomplished.

In as long as the French, seeing e.g. the imigrants as the Prime Minister, Mr. Valtz, receive the highest responsibility in France, and at the same time being confronted personally to a threat of being 'put in place' cause of maladjustment' to work within the Church that is in Bordeaux, for a reason of my identity with 'a Polish mentality' and A spirituality other than 'French pastoral care' would demand', in the words of Father Jean Rouet, it hurts to see this and I suffer from my Catholic Church in France thus conceived and presented.

Since I have been French for a long time, I could ask and to seek employment, the work that is offered in this country, And here we respect the human rights to have the personality as one possesses, to be oneself, even allowing same-sex marriages; and in the Church which is at Bordeaux I am told: 'You are not compatible with our pastoral care'; So, we're going to write to your superior to 'take away' you. Do I not therefore have my human rights in the Church in them? having moreover in French society? It's very bizzare as a situation and above all contrary to the Gospel of Christ, I believe. I am Currently the victim of this look and judgment on my person who scandalize me, as a believer. For the good of the Church, I do not write an open letter but personal and private to You only, with the copy for my Provincial. And I decided not to inform the Poles of what is happening to us now hoping that the Cardinal of the Church that you are will be able to put an end to All this history and everything that had happened will remain discreet.

The Church of Christ who would not act according to the Spirit of love for the small and the weak, and immigrants make it party, could not hope to have news priestly and religious vocations. After the year of the Faith we will have the Year of Consecrated Life and I, as a Catholic and a person consecrated to God, I must dampen in myself this fear of the stranger in my Church by recalling human rights in the country who welcomed me with all my rights and duties, and I must suffer since this Church does not want to recognize my Rights to work for the good of the souls of immigrants Polish in fidelity to my charisma of the member of the Congregation Societas Christi. This is not normal and It's just unfair.

It's my Personal Letter to You, Monsignor, in which I Sincerely express my feelings that I feel. I don't I didn't expect this here, after very good welcome from almost four years ago by You, Sir Cardinal. If I summarize what I am saying, I say: as a French, I am angry, as a Pole, I I am overwhelmed, as a Christian, I am Outraged and as a religious priest, I feel the Christ in me to be rejected. Let me explain: Although I opened my heart from the priest to the Vicar General of the Diocese on April 7, It seems that he did not want to understand anything and he wrote to my Provincial a letter which presented me in 'incapable' and 'good for nothing' for 'A pastoral care' that wants to be the best in the world, but it is not. The proof? I am for her a annoying person, and as a priest even more, in occurrence, when I must be able to pour out in mutual exchange. I thought I was living it in good shape collaborator of the parish priest, Father Didier Monget, and It is said that he cannot find help in months for this pastoral. But why was his opinion not asked? He tells me not to know anything about reproaches me. Such violence of negative gaze on what I am as a human person? My spirituality and mentality disturbs instead of being consulted, without any pretension I say, but in the name of the Lord. Am I a bad worker in the Lord's vineyard since I have kept values received at the first part of my life in Poland? Stop watching Difference of a bad eye. That there be new vocations in the Church of Bordeaux, I pray all Friday evenings at the church of Sainte Eulalie; but we must first respect those that God gives us, when they come from elsewhere, even from Poland! But when you don't have achievements anymore ripe and despised, the Lord does not want a heartless and cold pastoral care, the effect of which I suffer in This moment, unfairly. The Lord tells me to calm down and forgive the one who offended me, and the Community in my Provincial, who was to read a letter putting in bad opinion of him, and the charisma he holds of the living God, the gift and the mystery, as said Blessed John Paul II, in relation to his own vocation.

Exactly the spirituality of John Paul II has always inspired me and I would like to live it in the continuity of what I have received in Poland, where I lived half of my life and the rest I think I live it in France, if I am not does not discourage too much to stay there, as we do currently. And I am convinced of the importance of Revelation of Divine Mercy made by the intermediary of Saint Faustina and brought to knowledge of the whole world by John Paul II. Is that what Gene in my spirituality? What for? So where shall we go? May the canonization of Blessed John Paul II and John XXIII change the situation. I appeal to their saints intercession with Christ by concluding this Letter.

Jesus I trust You! Totus tuus ego sum Domine! Totus tuus ego sum Maria!

Please accept, Your Eminence, my sincere filial greetings in Jesus Christ our Lord. I offer my prayer to all your intentions and the Church for which you are responsible. Father Casimir Kuczaj SChr

My meeting with the Cardinal scheduled for July 3, 2014 29 June , St. Peter and St. Paul, 2014

(In Preparation of the meeting on 3 July: the text who wants to be the expression of my thoughts) A Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard, Archbishop of Bordeaux The Cardinal and my Father Bishop,

You have welcomed me very well into the Church which is in Bordeaux four years ago and I thank you for it sincerely. I have striven to be Cooperator priest and chaplain of the community Polish according to what the Lord had given me in natural gifts and talents and especially in what He had for me granted in the supernatural spiritual realm and especially the grace of the priesthood and the common charism of the Society of Christ. I thank the Lord for the peace and joy he gives me to fulfill His Will that is expressed for me in the last instance through the voice of my Superior Provincial, and since 32 of

that the Franco-Spanish Province which resides in France, to Aulnay-sous-Bois. It was in 2010 Father Jean Ciaglo who had signed with You and the Rector of the Mission Polish Catholic in France, Monsignor Stanislas Jez, the Convention that allowed me to be appointed for missionary service in the Church which is at Bordeaux. .

For as far as I am concerned, according to the Convention and Your Mission Letter, I am on my second Three-year term since September 1, 2013 and I think I must be there at least until the end of that period, this which is confirmed by my Provincial Superior, and I considers it the will of the Lord.

Therefore My surprise was great, when, contrary to this will of the Lord, Sunday, June 22 before Mass for the Poles in Saint Nicholas, I was able to read in the Review for the month of June - the Catholic Church in Gironde- Information about me that said the opposite.

It's Why, I asked right away to have a audience with You, Mr. Cardinal. I don't have nothing received from you before that day and the Provincial Superior to whom I phoned on this subject had always confirmed to me the same will of the Lord. 'The Convention must be respected and everything we write or say to Your subject endures it calmly. I pray for you and be Confident everything will work out. I am in contact with the Rector on this subject. He will react, surprised as he is not being made aware of anything as a Coordinator than by me personally. The Convention must be respected etc. Your trial will come to an end and all is well that ends well etc.'

It's True, that between April 7 and June 22 I lived something that tested me a lot. I have reacts with a Personal Letter written to You April 14, 2014, but the Provincial did not authorize me to send it. Later, when I learned that my colleague Jaroslaw Kucharski wanted to separate from our Congregation and that it has been given a new post without our Provincial being consulted. I even have writes a new Letter with a complaint to Your Court dated June 6, 2014. But my Provincial did not Not given permission, again, to do so. I He is asked what was happening and why a denunciation clandestine of a group of parishioners (the fact of which I obtained confirmation from Father Didier Monget, without looking any further) was able to trigger such hostility on behalf of your Vicar General, Jean Rouet, who apparently believed them; What I had felt during our interview of April 7, without knowing its origin, Because he didn't tell me about it at all. She had to remain clandestine?! Guessing a little that my person He was unsympathetic and I still don't know why? I attach the Two Letters I had written to You. The Provincial has authorized me to do so, if I found it really useful). I am told to him, to the Abbot Jean Rouet and then, I wrote to him: If my person does not not suitable for the Polish mission, there is still my colleague in the diocese that could be moved in Bordeaux if my Superior finds it good, but the Polish mission must be continued; I I will always refer to its decision as to the will of the Lord, since I am a religious priest.

In This case there is an injustice that, according to my co-science, I do not will ever accept. That is why I ask my Church, which is led by the College of Bishops, under the responsibility of the Successor of Peter, and of which You are Member, to defend myself before this injustice. Yes, as Pastor of the Diocesan Church you thought that your Vicar had not committed any fault, I ask you to be fair about this situation. To begin with, the Convention must be respected and my Provincial no longer bothered. There are delays and deadlines to be taken into account and a search for God's will at all times, for all parties involved, but without ever trying to force a Awareness of anyone, and especially not to make blows ad personam to lower the other as it was made to me before my Superior and to me from my Superior before me, Monday, June 23 by telephone, once I had posted on my personal Blog a article entitled: Information about me that is not true. I sent it to Monsieur Father Jean Rouet thinking him responsible for this information. He got angry and kept me going. treat as a definitive exclusion from the Dicesus and had badly spoken of my Provincial and finally cut off the communication brutally. It saddened me even more, after ten weeks of spiritual oppression related to the clandestine slanderous denunciation that set in motion a Compressor roller. Why would you want to denigrate me in front of my Congregation, before the Presbyterate, and finally before all The Church through Information on the page of nominations: I do not believe at all that to be among the priests called to other services in outside the diocese be my place. So what should I say when Since then, I have been asked about this from everywhere. Must that the explanation comes from You to calm spirits and ceases to cause scandal in the Polish Community totally surprised and to whom nothing is said about the rest of the things. Justice must be done and your statement must be made put an end to the rumours.

I will come and tell you, Cardinal and my Father Bishop what I sincerely think. I believe in my springboard for the mission in the Diocese of Bordeaux started four years ago and I ask to be able to Continue as long as possible. The Lord allowed tested before we all live in Church the Year of the Consecrated Life, willed and announced by the Pope François 2014/2015. I seek that it is the will of God concretely for me in the diocese. I got it asked from the beginning of my mission here: Lord, what do you want me to do. Today I came to You to declare that the Lord wants me to be one spark of His divine mercy according to what He said to St. Faustina. From Poland will come a Spark that will prepare humanity for My last coming. This ordeal was so that I can be purified before a new stage of my life as a consecrated person and priest and so that He, the Lord, may act a little more in this place of my Nothingness that I am. That, my Eminence, is what is happening shows me as truth about my journey missionary for four years in Bordeaux. May the Lord enlighten you on this subject and may you give me a mission to be your guarantor in all that is linked to the spirituality of Saint John Paul II, who said at the Shrine of Divine Mercy to Krakow in 2002: If we want to understand my Pontificate, we must refer to the Message of Christ transmitted by Saint Faustina.

In conclusion, two confidences, my Father Bishop: In my young age and in our parish church there was above a large watch to the right of the Tabernacle the Image of Jesus with this inscription: Jesus, I trust in You! It was through She that I received the first calls to be priest. Second appeal which became decisive to the approach of my Bac, it was a sentence in the article by the Co-founder of our Congregation, the Servant of God Ignacy Posadzy: 'Polish souls at The stranger gets lost!' I trust Jesus and his Church founded by him on Peter Apostle. I trust in my Congregation, the Society of Christ. And I trust You! That's all I wanted to tell you and share, in this opportunity to present myself before You, Mr. Cardinal. I hope by speaking to You and listening to You make further progress in the faith, hope and charity.

The Letter-Memoir on the Icon of the Holy Trinity or the Image of Divine Mercy

Written by

the Father Casimir Kuczaj SChr

Presented to the Cardinal on July 3, 2014 as a contribution to the 'Stepping Stone' for the Mission' in the continuation of the 'Parcours Missionary'.

'Philip, whoever sees me sees the Father' J 14:9. the image of Jesus known throughout the world since the canonization of Saint Faustina, with this little phrase of Jesus, made of her, in my opinion, the Icon of the Holy Trinity. Red rays 'signifying' the Son of God and His work of righteousness and the pale blue rays 'signifying' the Holy Spirit and his work of the Sanctification. The Eternal Father who by the Passion and the Passover of his Son reconciled the world with Him and sent the Holy Spirit to offer his mercy had willed this Icon for the rest of Humanity in its earthly history. I didn't know I was touching my eyes also this great and good news in all my young age.

I I am more and more convinced, living my Golden Jubilee of my encounter with Jesus in full awareness of being Christian and knowing expressed Truths in this Letter to the Cardinal. At the age of 12 I was watching The Image of the Merciful Christ in My Church parochial and I felt drawn to Jesus for being one day his disciple and priest. Seven years later, I discovered that He also wants me to be a member of the Congregation Nun sent all over the world for the service of Polish Emigration. With the pontifical work of the Saint John Paul II, whose ordination had not preceded me The Election that of a few months, I was able to experience like him the greatness and goodness of Our Lord God: the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. And, I don't forget never since my childhood has there been this Image-Icon which, gradually, over time, allowed me to Strengthen myself in the conviction, which I will present initially.

We are saved thanks to the mystery of the Saint Trinity; I believe that if God were not the Holy Trinity, we could never be saved. The offense against God demanded that it was God who Only could save us. And the solution was found in God, since He is in Himself the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Everything will therefore happen between the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost and we are the great ones beneficiaries: this is the Great Mystery of Divine Mercy. The devil doesn't believe it at all. He cannot be saved because he does not believe in the Holy Trinity which is at the same time, or rather above all else

time One living and true God and there is no other than Him. So, therefore, it is necessary to be a Christian to hope to be saved. To hope is not to disunite this that God had united from the

beginning... faith, hope and charity. On our side It is the trinity of gifts and virtues to practice and grow. Everyone will report on this which he had done especially in this religious field, and spiritual. It is all this in particular that Jesus had wished to remind his Church and the whole world by the interviews and messages dictated to the Holy Fausine, Secretary and Apostle of the DIVINE MISERICHORD.

Sir the Cardinal and my Father Bishop, and with you all my Brothers and sisters in humanity, I am more and more convinced that if there were no

from God, the Holy Trinity, who is one living and true God, or in other words, if God were Alone, and not in three No ones, we could not be saved. It's What I would like to explain to you,

with the grace of this One God: the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. The Gospel in this sentence: 'God has so much loved the world that He gave His Only Begotten Son: So every man who believes in him will not perish, but he will obtain eternal life' J 3:16n reveals and says this in a clear and amazing way. In another passage, Jesus says it himself. personally and this to the crowd: 'All those whom the Father gives me will come to me; and the one who comes to I'm not going to throw him out... For the will of my Father is that every man who sees the Son and believes in obtain eternal life for him...'J 6:37nn. Notice here the words: Every man who 'sees the Son'. I have discovered by contemplating the Image I call several names: 'of the Redemption', 'of the Divine Mercy', of the Holy Trinity', 'of Two Testaments', 'of Holiness', etc.

It's for me personally 'the Image of my Vocation' and the Icon of the New Evangelization. I think that in the expression – 'he who sees the Son' that we must rightly think of the Eucharist, the Blessed Sacrament, when the consecrated Host is exposed to worship by the People believer' – must also be heard what happened in the life of Saint Faustina to whom Jesus had say: Paint the picture you see and let it be seen First in the chapel of your convent and then in the whole world; Through it sinners will receive my graces come out of my heart full of mercy.

That Jesus in the thirties of the twentieth century refers us to his Words of the Gospel that is obvious. But that it also refers to a Painting of his Portrait with concrete indications on e.g. eyes must be those of my painful Passion', 'the rays have their precise meanings: 'water' that justifies' and 'the blood that gives life' Isn't that surprising? And this express will of the Lord to give to

The Church and to the whole world 'the spoon to draw graces of salvation at its Source' was it not a recipe given to Humanity sick means for his healing? I am amazed by it being of my youngest age looking at it and the seer of this painting in my parish church of Saint Anthony of Padua in Poland. Throughout my life, he has was given the grace to be fascinated more and more by this Christ

Jesus through this Image and I fell madly in love with it thanks to all that I was first able to read of the life of Saint Faustina and especially since the day of my Priestly ordination 'read with so many others the

life of Saint John Paul II'. He, precisely, during the second Great War, on foot passed through the place where found this Image in the Convent at the time Sisters of the Mother of Mercy in Krakow, And I am deeply convinced that he had experienced a such an experience as I, twenty years later, the Lord looked at him and said, 'Don't be afraid, come, follow me!' and he entered the seminary clandestine saying, like me thirty years later: Okay Jesus, I trust in You!

For that the Message and Image given through the service of life of Saint Faustina be brought to the knowledge of the whole world and be a steering table of the New evangelization for the

third millennium of the Salutary Proclamation for Humanity from the Holy Trinity, one living and true God, young Karol Wojtyła was chosen and sent to within the Church as Grand Pope for

be the Apostle of Divine Mercy. He has it publicly recognized, at the time of the consecration of the Basilica that bears this name in Krakow in August 2002, during his last apostolic journey to his native country. If we wants to understand my Pontificate, the Pontificate of John Paul II, he said. said, it will be necessary to bend and meditate on the Message of Christ who came through St. Faustina. Already his first encyclical 'Redemptor hominis' on the Redeemer the Son of God, Jesus Christ, published on Day of Saint Casimir March 4, 1979, put my heart in solidarity strong spiritual with him and his pontificate in his early days

and when I learned that his second encyclical was 'Dives in miséricordia' of 30 November 1980 - on Divine Mercy, I understood that his spirituality of the priest, of the bishop and now of the pope, was As closely as mine from a young age to this Icon of the Holy Trinity-ù the Image of the Redemption. It was after that that I got the confirmation of what I intuitively guessed, of his career life

during the War and its attendance at the Chapel where this Image-Icon was exposed all this time-ù and until today. From the Son to the Father, from the Father to the Son and to the Holy Spirit. The Holy Trinity is glorified

without ceases in his words and deeds of life. The third Encyclical could only be this: 'Dominum et vivificantem' of 18 May 1986. Logically one would expect first to hear about the Father, after the Son and finally of the Spirit. The first on the Father, the second on the Son and the third on the Holy Spirit. That would make more sense, according to the known formulas. But when we are familiar with this Image-Icon we do as he Saint John Paul II had done. This is the foundation of his spirituality and his pontificate, as I I already noted it at the beginning of this essay, quoting his own words from his last trip to Poland. His last trip in France to Lourdes was also a sign to me regarding his piety Marian and its episcopal motto 'Totus Tuus' taken of the Book of St Luis Grignon

from Montfort: 'From true devotion to the Saint Virgin Mary.'

In in preparing for the Holy Year he did the same or almost: From the Son by the Holy Spirit to the Eternal Father, to celebrate the Incarnation of the Word in the light of the Holy Trinity. And for the third millennium he advised us to fix our gaze on the Son who is the perfect Image of the Father in the Holy Spirit. Fix your sound A look at... It would say little on our side, look at an Image, and yet this is counted for many in the eyes of God to trust him in this way as a only true God, in Three Divine Persons, to this most Holy Trinity, saying humbly: Jesus, I have Trust in You! There is in this sentence the essence of the Faith, Hope and Charity. It's why, Jesus asked St. Faustina that this particular Invocation be put also on this Image which must attract souls and souls to HIM. hearts of human beings through the biaie of their own eyes. The Holy Spirit in this conversation between the Son and the Father who gives eternal life willed for mankind this Unique Sacramental, which is not yet, despite everything, What is done in the world with the publications of prayers and messages carried in particular by 'le Petit Journal' of St. Faustina, not yet fully and fully understood. It is not the sacrament, yes, okay; but such a Intervention with at the top 'a consecration of humanity to Divine Mercy', by the Great Roman Pontiff, which is now permitted to call Saint in such a short time after his departure of this world, should this not challenge us and this is my Case, dear Christian friends or not, I would say, without wanting to offend person: If you

Holidays You will be Christians! You will all be Christians or 'You will not be', I would say, thinking of the words of Marlaux, on the spirituality of humanity in the third millennium.

God is the discreet Author in action of the Spoken Words and revealed along with signs which are given as Sacred Scripture gives full examples. I'll try to tell you something that you Have never heard before, the explanation of this Image and Inscription given to humanity in Time who are the Last.

I have found everything in this Image and this Inscription and I will explain it to me by meditating with you on the Word of God. Instance of our conscience, a first place and privileged to which the Holy Trinity wants to entrust the royal secret and through it, mine and yours, to all humanity. Since it must also to commune with the sufferings of Christ, before it is worthy of testifying, what I also experienced recently before I can express myself with a new strength of the Spirit, I must think now and begin with invoke Him who is the Mother of this 'Master to to think and to live' who is Jesus Christ! She gave birth to us all in the pain of His Immaculate Heart for a new destiny when his glory is revealed with that of his Son since the Spirit of glory, the Spirit of God rested in her first on earth: she who was proclaimed 'full of grace' as the Virgin through the Angel and 'Blessed' as 'Mother of the Lord' by Elizabeth, the Blessed Virgin and Mother of this Great Mystery which is the Redemption and Mercy. With regard to Justice, there is only one Redeemer and only one only Justice accomplished by Him.

JESUS CHRIST FULFILLED ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS

AND DIVINE MERCY IS ACCESSIBLE

Prologue.

St Thomas Aquinas in his time on the question of Faith Christian made herself known to the Church as 'an angelic doctor'. He found that the Credo could accommodate a few more articles. It is this idea that I would like to focus on. In this opportunity to want to deepen with readers the content of the Message transmitted to humanity by the intermediary of Saint Faustina.

Here is the words of St. Thomas: "We find well in the articles (of the Creed) a work appropriate to the Father is that of creation; and, similarly, a work of work appropriate to the Holy Ghost is, 'He has spoken. by the Prophètes. Among these articles must therefore be also places a work that is appropriate to the Son in his divinity." 1. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica t.III p.27, Les Editions du Cerf, Paris 2007

This sentence is a starting point for in-depth research of Sacred Scripture, in our time of the new evangelization, Where we are. I hopetoget the help of the Holy Spirit who spoke through the Prophètes first and then by the Apostles and to be his little instrument in this task Theological inspired by the canonization of the Blessed John Paul II.

According to St. John Paul II: 'The theologian cannot limit to preserving the treasures of doctrine inherited from the past. It should seek to understand and express faith in such a way that it can be accepted in our own way contemporary to think and speak'. John Paul II. My book de méditation, Edition du Rocher Jean-Paul Bertrand, 2004, for The French edition. p.71.

Like St. Thomas Aquinas had written, which I quoted at the beginning of our reflection, I believe in the light of faith, which the Creed, also called the 'Symbol of the Apostles', could host still, at least, one

article Next concerning Jesus of Nazareth: here he is: 'by the service of John the Baptist, He fulfilled all justice.' One would put him between the facts- mysterious: 'He took flesh of the Virgin Mary and became

Man - and -'He suffered under Pontius Pilate'. Thus appropriation to the Father and the Spirit Saint: One of being creator and the Other to speak through the prophets, would also be profféssé for the Son of God who would bear on 'fulfillment' of all justice'. That other articles could still finding a place in the Creed is a subject that we Let's not go into it here. But it is important to know, in passing, and quote the opinion of theology scholasticism, which St. Thomas carried to almost perfection.

Saint Thomas Aquinas had rightly pointed out that a work appropriate to the Son in his divinity must be present in the articles of faith, as is the case for the Father and for the Holy Spirit. And yet no one after him, even if he never lacked Thomists, especially among the Dominicans, did not raise This question in history, it seems to me. Before the so many problems in our time for the Church who is living a great trial of faith Catholic.

In as a religious priest, I would like, before the Year of Consecrated Life to take up this challenge with grace of God and the power of the Holy Spirit. I already have it done during the Year of Faith in mother tongue, Polish; Now I want to do it in French. The Lord had made me born in Poland and live there for the first 30 years years and then, after calling me to the Mission to Poles Abroad, He has made me live in France for almost thirty-three years.

Saint Thomas, speaking of possible articles for the Creed, added also this about the Blessed Sacrament regretting in some way (this is my intuition), that this Creed does not evoke not the institution. Here is his opinion on the subject: 'The Sacrament of the Eucharist presents a difficulty special, more than many items. We should therefore make a special article about it. It therefore does not seem to be not only the number of

Articles is sufficient'. 2. work cited p.27 After this that is known of these creations in this field: 'Tantum ergo' for example with all its development which in France is recited between second reading and

The Gospel 'Corpus Christi' Sunday called now 'the Sollenity of the Blessed Sacrament of the Body and of the Blood of Christ'. Doctor Angelique speaks of articles of the Catholic Faith and those said in the Creed, during the celebration of the Eucharist Sunday. When you usually see, this is my overview, that we become so hurried at Mass that we would already like the shortest possible homelies and the Creed we choose most often is not the one of Nicaea-Constantinople as is always the case in Poland, e.g. one can ask the question: What is the interest of Add more articles to recite? World of today does not need it. What if it was The opposite?

Not should we consult the Holy Spirit first and not people, even in the time of the sacrosanct democracy. She wants to invade and rule everything in using the natural naivety of sinful man who surprises himself and is surprised so often by his very carelessness In the very serious subject and thanks that the concern directly from the antropological, philosophical point of view, phisic, biological and metaphisic, and continuing in moral and theological questions. Do we not see that the democracy put to ' all sauce' and 'wanting to be queen of everything and at all costs', it is changing very

quickly in totalitarian oppression?! That's what motivated Our theological research work, to meet the challenge opposition to this march towards modern paganism which feeds on sensations of all kinds enticing to First sight but blinding if we continue to obey it without reacting with resistance and thoughtful action in all areas, and why not theological too.

That What I would like to do here is to speak for give an account of the hope that has dwelt in me since my childhood and young age in my native Poland. And then until the age I am, in my age of adults who are already addressing some of the symptoms of old age and finally prepares to account for this passage earthly to the Creator of all and to the Redeemer Magnificent, among other things, of my soul what I hope repeating this invocation often: Jesus, I trust You! Which now brings me to take a closer look at the topic chosen for this study with you, my reader that the Lord Himself personally had chosen for this moment and for this place where you find, to speak to you eye to eye, from his mouth to your ears and especially from his Heart to the hold that he would like do the same.

'Take of me - says Jesus Christ - become my disciples, for I I am meek and humble of heart, and you will find rest.' Mt 11, 29. We have the opportunity to learn about Christ in this study, and there are ancient things in all of this, But there are also, you will be surprised, my friend, there will be things news you've never heard of, even if you es, maybe a Cardinal. It is the Cardinal precisely who was chosen by Jesus Himself to Read what I'm writing here and now somewhere on this earth in July 2014. He agreed to receive me in audience and he himself chose the date of the Feast of St. Thomas. Not the one we already have mentions. No, that of the life of Jesus, the Apostle, one of the Twelve, perhaps more than others Time the boss of all those who have doubts. What Providence with Divine Mercy. Second Sunday of Easter, instituted – as Jesus wanted to talk with a simple nun Hélène Kowalska– by Saint John Paul II in the Holy Year

when that same Sunday he proclaimed her a Saint. And See! Himself fourteen years later on April 27 last was in the presence of millions of people and worldwide by media services

honoured and by Pope Francis proclaimed a Saint. And that too More surprisingly, this had never happened. before in the presence of his faithful collaborator and successor even in the place of the Vicar of Christ in being now the venerable Pope Emeritus.

He Finally, I must go forward and therefore seek to explain how this new article about Jesus and the Credo had proposed itself and, I would say - gently imposed - on me, from the year 2000; I must say,

that Since then, I haven't dared to change the content of my prayer but during the Year of Faith, I did it by even writing to the Pope a Letter on this subject. Perhaps the Cardinal will be able to find

some leaves on the occasion of his visit to Rome, Perhaps it is in the archives, if we do not throw away letters in a trash can in the noble Institution. So my Letter of the religious priest should normally be Somewhere, right? I do not want to know. I don't have does my duty. This was imposed gently but strongly to me on December 19, 2012, as now it was imposed on me to write this long Letter-Study to my Father Bishop and Cardinal. From that day in my prayer of the Creed, I put it into personal practice, I also sometimes talk about it in my spiritual conversations with Christians and others, when a situation and a subject lends itself, I mean the subject of Message of Divine Mercy according to St. Faustina and according to St. John Paul II. In my

work pastoral also, in homilies when Saint is evoked. Jean-Baptiste, I immediately enter into the depth of this discovery related to the Image of the Saint Trinity. Rublev presented his version of this great mystery of the Christian faith and it is exposed on the ante-pedium of the high altar in the church from Sainte Eulalie to Bordeaux. But Jesus did perfectly better.

I notes first of all a special interest in this moment in Jesus' life when He asks Jean-Baptiste to do him a favor during his interview with him on the banks of the Jordan: 'Jesus, coming from Galilee, appears on the banks of the Jordan, and it comes to John to be baptized by him. John wanted to stop him and said: "It is I who need to make myself baptize by you, and you come to me!" But Jesus answered him, "For the time being, Let me do it; This is how we must accomplish perfectly what is right." So John leaves him do'. Mt 3:13-17 Sunday Missal, Liturgical Text official, presented by Pierre Jounel, Desclée-Mame, Paris 1981 p.515

I confess also that for some time I was surprised more in addition than between the Nativity and the Death of our Lord Jesus Christ in the profession of faith of each Sunday we glide without stopping, even a a brief moment, on his life so full and fulfilled of the Son of Man, of the Son of God. When at last I discovered and contemplated for so long the face of Christ of Mercy, painted according to his will expressed to Saint Faustina on February 22, 1922 at the Convent of Plock, I was grasped of the importance of deeper knowledge of the One that God sent.

I asked, 'Lord Jesus, I trust in You'. But make me know your Mystery more by depth. Tell me, how should I speak of your redemption? to human persons so that they can have the same trust and accept your mercy. I now understand more specifically than talking about mercy and Not to speak of justice would be to ignore the work divine fulfilled through the divine person of the Son of God.

In reading the work of St. Thomas Aquinas, his 'Sum' Theological', I discovered, what I already written above and I took a decision to do this research and give to my brothers and sisters in

humanity and in the Church my witness. I return to the choice of the Day of Saint Thomas, sometimes called unbelief. It is thus also allowed the Cardinal not to believe any follow-up to this Letter-Memoir and

all its content. But I hope he will take it into account. in his decisions concerning me and I will then be able to help him in his project called: 'The Springboard for Mission', after I had the joy of taking part in my better than the previous project: 'Four Years of the Missionary Journey'. 'Jesus, I have trust in You!' that I strongly recommend to all the world, whether one believers or not, it costs almost nothing and 'It can bring big'. Let's look at what Thomas says 'incredulous'. Did Jesus scold him? for his bizarre words and exclamation: 'No, I won't believe.' With Jesus the bypass of Speech and attitude is always possible, because for us and for our salvation He fulfilled all righteousness. Now it's time for the Eternal Father's mercy and that 'for the whole world' starting with St. Thomas: Don't be Not incredulous but believe. 'My Lord and my God!' First 'Jesus, I trust in You!' It is true that after Jesus said: Blessed who did not see and believed. But this applies only to a minority, I believe; and why Not until this year 1922 when at from his mystical talks with Sister Faustina he gave to him, and through her to the whole Church His commands: that an Image of Him be made and multiplied as much as possible throughout the earth, and when He promised to heed it by report to everyone who would so much like to see Him before He return in the glory of his Father.

I speaks from experience and I don't ask anyone to believe me this blind but just try to experience it for yourself. There are fewer and fewer fewer processions with the Blessed Sacrament:

Step crowds at the proposed Adoration. So why not experiencing this desired Message and Image and given by Him. He knew in advance how much images of all kinds will invade the being Human to these millennial crusaders. Watch the football match and do not try to look at images that we said pious and once the generation of grandpa and Grannies be gone we get rid of it for the replace with what? You know the answer, look at your room; really no place for Jesus or for the Blessed Virgin?, nor for a Saint such and such.. You have thousands and thousands in The TV plugged in or in your computer. I tell you propose this Image and Message and I must try to Convince slowly but surely for your own good. I I am persuaded and so many others alike. I know it's the Icon

Unique of the Holy Trinity given throughout history of Humanity which in Itself and by Itself summarizes all the Word of God contained in the Saints Scriptures and throughout the Tradition of

The Church and his Magisterium. And the discretion of what had happened passed to the Jordan which is called the Baptism of Jesus made the Book almost oblivion whole of Leviticus, remembering only a few very strong phrases such as: Be holy, for I am holy - saith the Lord. Fifty years ago the Second Vatican Council recalled that all Christians are called to holiness. But why then so few really sanctify themselves and if it is for example Of the Christian family, there is always more In addition to divorces?

He There is great difficulty in understanding what the Justice and holiness demanded of men and women from the Holy Trinity and given at the same time time on his part as a gift of God in the Spirit. This Gift is Unknown or very little known. There is a hunger for justice Everywhere.

The Eternal Father revealed His mercy, the Son fulfilled all righteousness and the Holy Spirit grants his charity, this is how I believe in the one God in three Persons to act in creation and redemption of humanity. Our study in fulfillment of justice through Jesus Christ therefore wants to be a service to the new evangelization. May the Lord God grant us the grace to carry out this work to His term with faith, hope and charity.

By the service of Jean Batiste. This will be the first chapter of our research. Who is he? How God prepared her to its mission? What service did he render to Jesus of Nazareth? Is his martyrdom a proclamation of the Passion of the Messiah? ?

Jesus Christ has fulfilled all Justice. This will be the central chapter of our study. The Son of God in the Old Testament. The Messianic promises given through the intermediary angels and prophets. The Incarnation of the Redeemer and his Work of Redemption. He came by water, by blood and by the Spirit. Baptism and the Mystery Pascal of Jesus Christ. Faith which is a victory over the world.

Jesus , I trust in You! T el se ra le tr ois ième e t last chapter of our pr ése nt ati o n. The m e ss a ge of Christ given to the m o nde d a ns the vi e mystic d e la s ainte Fa us tine. Can we dec rypt er l'i c one of Christ with rays that sor ten t of his Sack Co eur?

The great Pope John Paul II marked the history of humanity. He marked the lives of many world and mine in particular. I ask him to assist me in this work for the glory of God and the salvation of souls. His Life and his work have taught me much and especially what he has brought to the Church about Divine Mercy, in communion with Saint Faustina Kowalska, whom he beatified in 1993 and then canonized in the Holy Year

2000. He replied to my request to bless the TOTUS TUUS Association founded on6 August1996 and instituted on 1 November ofthe same year in Roubaix; it was to give thanks to God on occasion of his 50th anniversary of his priestly ordination.

According to Blessed John Paul II: 'The theologian does not can not be limited to preserving the treasures of doctrine inherited from the past. He should seek to understand and to express the faith of such that it can beaccepted by our contemporary way of thinking and speaking.' John Paul II. My meditation book, Edition du Rocher Jean-Paul Bertrand, 2004, for the French edition. p.71.

For support his pontificate and to take part in his pastoral work to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ that this Association came into being in France between6 August and1 November 1996. He promised to pray for her during her

Visitation from the tomb of Saint Luis Marie Grignon de Montfort. The new evangelization is a leitmotif of this Association of faithful, including the Statutes have been approved bythe Council of Lille, Monsignor Jean VILNET inthe same year 1996. I lived in the diocese of Lille: Roubaix – Lille-Dunkerque-Roubaix between 1982 and 1998, sixteen years of life the most beautiful. After two years in the Diocese of Autun 1998-2000 and then 10 years in Abscon- Escaudain between the Year 2000 and 2010 until September to find myself in Bordeaux since.

The STATUTES of the Catholic Association T O T U S T U U S

1. Declaration founder:

God Only we can give living faith, but we can give our testimony. Only God can give strong hope, But we can give our brothersconfidence. Only God can give love

genuine But we can learn to love one another. Only God can give peace to the world, but we can sow unity and concord. Only God can give courage and strength, but we can support those who fall. God alone is the only way and truth, but we can indicate them to others. God alone is the light eternal, but we can make it shine in the eyes of the men. God alone is the resurrection and the life, but we Let us give back to others the desire to live. God alone is sufficient for Himself, but He wanted to need our help.

2. The Objectives:

1/ Working for a better adherence of Christians to the Magistè re of the Church and of the Pope.

2/Search Strong benchmarks and identity firm Christian by meditation on the Holy Bible, of the Teaching of the Church and of the Pope's writings. 3/ Learning courage to live one's faith in a hard, marked world by indifference, unbelief, temptations sects, facilities etc.

4/ Be a place of relationship life:

• relation with God in personal, communal prayer, liturgical etc.

• relation with others by the qualities of respect, attention, service etc.

• relation with oneself through the blossoming of the personality with talents of heart, intelligence and body.

3. The Members' commitments:

1/ Praying to God with and through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Me re of mercy, that Man and the work of creation are returned to the Creator. 2/ Pray for the Pope, our Bishop and the Church; asking the Lord for new vocations priests, religious and missionaries.

3/ By a good participation in the Holy Eucharist, to have awareness of Christ's love for man and, through the Sacrifices, taking part in the unfathomable treasures of love and the pains that the mother of Jesus has offered to the Lord for the salvation of the human family.

4/ To glorify and adore Christ in the Blessed Sacrament, the great Mystof Faith, in which God, the Father, gives His Son to men to be saved.

5/ To live in the grace of God, to be aware of being child of God, imitate Jesus of the Gospel, work On its own character, to collaborate with the thanks to God, be docile to action inspiring the Holy Spirit, faithfully doing God's will.

TOTUS TUUS EGO SUM DOMINATES! TOTUS TUUS EGO SUM MARIA!

RESEARCH BIBLICAL ON THE SUBJECT OF DIVINE JUSTICE

By the service of Jean Batiste. This will be the first chapter of our research. Who is he? How God prepared her to its mission? What service did he render to Jesus of Nazareth? Is his martyrdom a proclamation of the Passion of the Messiah? ?

Jesus Christ has fulfilled all Justice. This will be the central chapter of our study. The Son of God in the Old Testament. The Messianic promises given through the intermediary angels and prophets. The Incarnation of the Redeemer and his work of redemption. He came by water, by blood and by the Spirit. Baptism and the Mystery Pascal of Jesus Christ. Faith which is a victory over the world.

Jesus I trust in You! This will be the third and last Chapter of our presentation. The message of Christ given to the world in the mystical life of Saint Faustina. How can we decipher the icon of Christ with rays that come out of his heart? The new evangelization is Functional. Let us be peacemakers.

Chapter I.

The prophet Malachi in the Bible is found as the last in The Old Testament. In his Book is announced the coming of the Messiah and his Predecessor. This Book is Promising of the great news of the

sacrifice new, by which God will receive the glory befitting his It is undeniable that John the Baptist was a member of the of the great ones and that it was quite close to the Christ, for the Lord says of him, "Among the sons of the woman he did not get up anyone taller "Mt 11,11.work cited p.37

The the greatest among men born of women, John the Baptist will have a service to render to the promised Messiah throughout the Elder Testament: it will be to baptize him in the waters of the Jordan when Both in human age they will spend thirty years. St Luke the Evangelist applied himself in the first part of his first book to give an account of it as accurately as possible. For Christ Jesus as well as for John the Baptist the stories of the Annunciation and the birth of the One and the Other are presented in an obvious narrative way. John the Baptist is of the priestly descendants of the high priest Aaron, the brother of Moďse. Both on the side of his father Zacharias than from his mother Elizabeth. Thus its service to prepare the paths to the Savior of the world find its roots throughout the liturgical worship of God

all throughout the history of the People of Israel that God has brought out of slavery and misery in the country of Egypt. God's First Covenant with His People near Sinaď Mountain and the gift of the

Law will have their applications in the worship exercised first in the Tent of the Meeting during the crossing of the desert and then in the places chosen by God for it, before it is in the Temple of Jerusalem the priestly office is organized according to what God commanded the People of Israel in Leviticus.

The Annunciation is made by the angel Gabriel to Zechariah in this Temple of Jerusalem six months before that of the same angel will bring to Mary, the Blessed Virgin in Nazareth in Galilee. In his message God does

say to the acting high priest that his prayer was Answered; his wife sterile by herself and in his old age will give him a son: he must name him John since 'God gives grace'. The angel describes in advance its mission to call for the conversion of the sons of Israel and preparation for the Lord of a perfect People; The Spirit and the power of the prophet are also evoked for that one can see all that the Old Testament has prepared by the great prophets for the reconciliation between God and humanity may it take place achieve through the New Alliance and Eternal in Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus explains it in

this sentence: 'The Law and the Prophets have worked until John; since him the Kingdom of God suffers violence and it is violent people who enter it'.verifier Ev. He is also announced that John the Baptist will be filled with the Spirit Saint already from the womb.

Has his birth his father Zechariah himself will prophesy on the child of the things that will be accomplished at the edges of the Jordan thirty years later: You will make known to the People the Salvation that will be accomplished by a remission of one's sins thanks to the mercy of our God. This divine mercy prophesied here by Zechariah we find it in the message of Christ given to the world and to the Church in Life

mystic of Saint Faustina. 'The Sun rising in the top that visits us to enlighten those who live in the shadows and in the darkness of death to direct them towards the way of Peace' is Jesus Christ whose John the Baptist will make known the presence and the work 'Behold the Lamb of God who takes away sin of the world'.

The High Priests of the Old Covenant had a mission to take away the sins of the People of Israel by sacrifices of animals offered, whose blood was to be poured and carried before the Lord God, in the holy saints. Before being slaughtered, the animal 'received' sins through imposition Hands and confession made in the name of sinners by the high priest. God forgave sins because that the priest and the people believed in the Word of God who set up these religious provisions.

It's faith in the future 'Lamb of God' which gave 'a effectiveness' to these sacrifices in the will of God to show his mercy to all those who believe in Him and obey those He has envoy

like prophets, priests and kings. Some prophets were also priests, and John the Baptist were the last and greatest among them at the same time as representative of all humanity – the most

men born of women – as the Lord has said Jesus in the Gospel. As High Priest and representative of humanity by the service that Divine Providence had foreseen the Lamb of God will receive and take upon Himself the sin of the world for remove it and atone for it by his Paschal Mystery: his Passion and his Death on the Cross and his Resurrection will open for all who have faith the source of justification and justification redemption.

We let's continue this subject of John the Baptist is his life and mission, once all that concerns Jesus Christ has been established and His work of justification: He has fulfilled all righteousness. It's The central subject of this exhibition.

Chapter II.

the I am perverse by the half-truths I have denounced before. Sociologists and journalists may not realize to which Lord they want to serve: You cannot serve two Masters Jesus in the Gospel and He explains why! We make choices whether we like it or not and we are at the service of these two Trinities which I mentioned in the previous chapter where we are at the service of Lucifer. It is very intelligent and perverse so that we do not surrender count of that; That's why I wrote: Maybe they don't make themselves county. It can be done voluntarily and even sign

river and fish... With us there was all this and there was no river and fish... With us there was all this and there was no electricity until I turn 18 as I already have Reported. No TV either; only one day The radio that worked with the batteries. Was there news? Not at all! People when they met told a lot less of anything! In the city it is the trend to the single thought that prevails. Someone says, writes, where does something and everyone in it talk from morning until evening until again Gives. The manipulation of public opinion is done without Let us question anything in the official word or unofficial. What matters is that it works and that it sells well. Audience indicators play a role against the others and we have fun with the game of hide-and-seek of the half- truth as long as we persuade everyone that he There is not and there will not be in time or in THE SPACE THE UNIQUE TRUTH. Human nature is good equipped to defend themselves against this sham General. The Nature of God and the Nature of Man are not on the same order of existence. Who I am Am and you are who are not - said in his interviews mystics God the Father to Saint Catherine of Siena, the Patroness of Europe with the other five: Saint Benedict, St. Cyril, St. Methodius, St. Bridget and St. Edith Stein. The nature of the Creator is beyond all that man is able to think and yet it is above all Natural. The supernatural is created for angels and for men to enter with Him in Covenant and in Communion. Lucifer and his followers among the angels Rebels and evil men have no access to the world supernatural which is called: Grace or Heaven; or as in the Gospel: the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of Heaven... I shares for now my discoveries and my experience than of the natural world of the man that I am; He will come on Time to share "The Christian part of my identity". Values: truth, Beauty and good in the natural world have their respondents In the Supernatural World: Faith, Hope and charity. In the natural world there are values also very important: they are called virtues. Strength, justice, caution and temperance or moderation. Our character lives from these values or disintegrates. We do not have It was not natural to stay on track like the animals. We have the free will to go in the right way Direction of perfection. The man is referred to His responsibility to be the being intelligent. But man's nature is wounded! She needs natural grace and grace supernatural in all areas of his existence. Let's stay here Still on lives and on natural graces the others. Grace never stands in the way of nature; On the contrary, it builds on the natural virtues of its Wonders.

My Vocation - I am a man-4

He The time comes when "I am a man" must take takes into account the particular dimension; This is the Masculine peculiarity that with age and sutrout in adolescence begins to manifest itself more In addition; the human race is bisexual; We are talking today the phenomena of homosexuality and lesbianity, this second expression is perhaps less often used but we know well from what it is about. A single thought forges a path also in This area and ambiguities are not lacking until the highest levels of national assemblies; the the words of the Bible on the abominations of acts of these kinds are forgotten or persecuted. I wrote "deeds" and I did not write "deeds" people"! Human persons cannot be judged by no one but God alone. To me the judgment- says the Lord God. But he too judges us only because of Acts that always begin in thought and sometimes transform into words. When we will share about life Christian, the act of contrition will appear as an essential step for our relationship with God: I confess to Almighty God and to you my brothers that I have sinned in thought in word and by omission... I thank the Lord for being part of the Family Large. I have four brothers and three sisters. The Male and female dual reality, in addition to my Parents: Man and Woman, had introduced himself to me in a familiar way. We learn A lot of things on a daily basis. It's not the same to be male or female; the same dignity but not the same reality! We want Destroy this truth like never before in the history of humanity. Biology has not not much to do about it; It's about all of nature human which is first of all of a spiritual order. Animals have their biology and phisis in the foreground, not humans! God first created the spiritual values and then only angels and men in the image of these Values created: truth, beauty and Ok. That is why after the death of each being alive, including of the human being it smells bad, it stinks and the stench quickly becomes unbearable. The Nature thus gives the signs of corruption by rejecting values created by the Creator. Life supernatural only can bring it remede but one does not disguises by nature to force her to accept the imposture! I am grateful to God for wanting me male-male. I will therefore be able to be called to the service priestly but at the price of celibacy; even more, God willed that I am a consecrated person in the heart of his Church. Religious priest: what a grace, Lord. But we is not there before my age of eighteen Years. Let's go back again to that time of my adolescence. One times I remember a girl who had me more Enormously: I remember his name and surname: Grazyna Krzyzostaniak. She was very beautiful. She gave me completely turned over all my interior; and yet I didn't tell anyone and her. neither. And even a few months before the Bac at the Lycée; This one I told her I liked her and we did some walking, that was before the Lord had revealed His will to me and my vocation; her name was Lidia Baziak. I tell the truth that I loved her and that she loved me I thought; and that our love was chaste. I told him one day during a walk, which I felt to be called to the priesthood and she understood me. I learned after In propt at the Seminary she had married in Moszczenica, next door from Stary Sącz where we were both in high school and in the same class B. Another who was in the Same class but who already knew me before because we did a year together at Gołkowice - eighth experimental class - made me One day surprised by asking me this question where we deposit clothing when entering the premises; it was Marcelline Obrzud: Eh! You, Kazimierz tell me, you came to the Lyceum to enter the Seminary later, No? I do not remember my answer, but his question, if. I was interested in girls and Seminar in a meeting with a psychologist I understood that if this were not the case I could not Apply to become a priest! But I had to make a choice that the grace of God would take charge with the Person of the Blessed Virgin as protector. And I know that's true. The It remains to be said will come on this occasion to speak of Her and all that makes one a Christian and makes choices that stick to it.

My Vocation - I am a Christian-1

In The discovery of my human identity we do not stop step; It is a very dynamic approach. The part Regarding "I am a man" continues to this day to reveal myself and to others, I thinks, for example, about my Slavic mentality and the Polish part of my identity to the extent that is revealed Also the French part that I discover more and more more when most of my earthly existence in the time and also by a permanent formation I live here. This Reflection written and published at the same time Currently I only do it in French; of course That means something; So far I I was writing in Polish first and I did them translated after eventually. I decided to do otherwise; I think I am as much the Pole as the French, I would even say like this: I am a hundred for one hundred Poles and one hundred percent French. The account is not not good? And what do you know? It is a A human affair and not of the mathematical or philosophical domain only. And this is a Christian matter, I will tell you. Ensures; If you read me to the end you will understand, in Anyway I hope so! A human affair and a matter Christian. Can they be separated? What God has united that Man does not separate him! We are used to hear this word in relation to the marriage in which she was delivered after the debate on a eventual divorce between the Pharisees and Jesus in the Gospel. But this Word has a much more far-reaching impact. wide. And I believe that here it has its place and its place. legitimacy. Christian initiation begins at Baptism and asserts itself in Confirmation; it needs Reconciliation and the Eucharist as Nurriture so that the Holy Spirit may shape us to adoption by the Father in Christ as his own children and citizens of Heaven. At the age of seven I started my catechism and at the age from the age of nine I received communion for the first time, after confessing before the priest Catholic. Oh! What conversations we had, the Lord Jesus and I on the way back from the church to distance of six kilometers! I quickly took a liking to Communion and I said to myself: it would be nice if I could receive communion. more often. I didn't dare to think of being a priest One day, even if this thought touched me sometimes. That's impossible. You're from the family very poor; too poor to study; and others Children who come do not help this situation... So I I didn't really believe it was possible, but once I remember to have organized with other children behind The barn "A mass as in the church on priest did it" and it amused the gallery. During difficulties in relationships with my classmates Some laughed at me, saying, "Bigôt too pious" etc. In the church having remained closer to the Altar when with the advancement in The age of the other boys found normal moving further and further away towards the exit, some had reproached me for getting stuck! It was Already small trials to endure for the name of Jesus, I thought to myself. And then I could be more concentrated and gathered in invisible things but very real. Confession had the effect guilt-free so formidable; I was a sinner and I knew that without Jesus I could do nothing when the Demons mobilized to keep me away from my Vocation of man and Christian. All this was really serious. I fell and got upais, I was falling again and I was getting up again... This ICON IMAGE by which one I was dazzled seemed to speak to me without that I hear words: my answer was always the same: Jesus, I trust in You! I would like to be children at heart but I lived too far away of the Church to fulfill its requirements. I thought naively that it disqualified me from being able to one day be priest! Which was completely false; but I discovered only once accepted in the Seminar at the age of 19. Life Liturgical and parish during my childhood and adolescence filled my life with joy truly. I loved being at the Office and observe the liturgical actions that the Priests accomplished. My memory of the parish priests and vicars is not not gone from my vivid memory; On the contrary, there are plenty of flashes of all kinds. Father Michał Orczyk and his big eyebrows and his long sermons, and one Sunday his gesture of driving a woman not properly dressed back to the door of the church etc. The funeral of this Parish priest have engraved themselves in my memories and the arrival of the new parish priest Jan Stach who ended his prayers in prolonging them in infinii... This parish priest had patience incredible. Once there was someone's funeral and the family had come forward with a Grand rétard. I said to myself, the priest will reproach them that; But no, not at all, he started driving The procession as if nothing had happened all simply. He had a peaceful character... When he told me Seen coming asked at the age of 18 on certificate for confirmation in the parish of Stary Sącz he has said: Already you want to get married? The Vicars? The first from my memories: Adam Machnik.. I learned that he was went to Brazil as a missionary... It had me impressed.. The other one called Czosnek Zbigniew? I'm not sure about his first name, another Kazimierz Zaucha; He had the same first name as me and he knelt before the Tabernacle with his hands clasped together; That made the biggest impression on me; his Time in the Holy One Eucharist; I wanted to imitate him in that... I had taken A decision to this effect: Before the Tabernacle I kneels with my hands clasped together as if in prayer. Jesus Christ is here... And then this priest who also marked my life because of his abandonment of priesthood for a woman when I was 14; I do not retain in the remember that his first name: Marian. He loved racing at bicycle... and apparently he had problems with celibacy. Father Jan Stach left his post because of the age limit. It was a new rule introduced after the Second Vatican Council. The Parishionians do not I didn't understand that. Why should he go and look for where live? Bishop Ablewicz has decided so and he must go. He went to Stary Sącz, I told him Visited. He wasn't complaining, he accepted it as the God's will. When he heard that I wanted to become a priest, he confided in me: "Kaziu (Kazimierz in shape) friendly) in priestly life it is most of the time the Exhausting pastoral work, but from time to time there are Small moments of glare as if the sky opened all at once in front of you and then after you are ready to endure everything for Christ and for his Church." My last memory of Jan Stach is his presence in my family home on the day of my Mass of Premise. A new parish priest was already Installed at the time: the abbot Stefan Tokarz who is resident mintenant of the Parish, fromthen that the current parish priest: Father Kazimierz Koszyk took on this position. It allowed the previous Parish priest remains in the parish as a resident and confessor. And everything is going well. This should also be done this way. with Father Jan Stach, but there is no turning back and then his grave is in the cemetery of our Parish when same. This is what has remained gratified In my hearts among other things with regard to my youth and my Parish.

My Voction - I am a Christian-2

I I realize that to describe my first shift Of life I wrote four chapters under the title "I am a man" and only one for now under the Title "I am a Christian". It will balance out; but I must make a small remark: I lived the things of the world supernatural at the time without being able to explain to me In those days - I didn't need to do that As now I can, I must and I want to do it for first give thanks to God and to bear witness For my brothers and sisters in humanity and for my brothers and sisters the Christians. This new world supernatural had opened up to me on the day of my Baptism and I was lifted to the level of the royal throne of Jesus on the day of my First Communion. I remember our interviews perfectly well Mystical. Between Jesus and me there were links to Done real but surntural. How to explain it today when two subsequent quarters have been added So in my life 36 years as a religious priest? For the Comunion, I recall it on the occasion of the Sollenity of the Blessed Sacrament, I did not understand anything more after this First Time despite all the studies I had done. It's not a matter for human reason; it is completely beyond it; one life and one progresses in a mystical knowledge that concerns the The domain of love and the epérance of a This vision is now carried out only by the Christian faith. I say Christian and I feel sorry for other religions. The Holy Trinity is inconturnable Dear human friends. The supernatural world is not elsewhere than in her; in the bosom of the Father, by the Spirit Holy and thanks to the incarnation of the Son of God alive and true, the One God as his Son is One and Only is their COMMON SPIRIT. The unity of God is at the same time time and beyond all time its uniqueness. Worldwide Supernatural there is only one way to get us there: this way is Jesus Christ. He said it himself very expressly: I am the way, the truth and life. I thank him for revealing this royal secret to me already in my childhood and to dazzle myself with his Personality Unique and amazing. The true God and the true Man. And he had me given to be and become the true man and the true Christian to the glory of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Every time I entered my church Parish the words were offered to my eyes and to my heart: Niech będzie Bóg uwielbiony- Praise be to God! This sentence is always written above the altar on the wall. The supernatural world has become my homeland while waiting for the Sky. My earthly homeland had to give him place:The first place for the one that will last forever. The second until the last day of history. History of this second Fatherland Poland there was the first millennium of this premiere in 1966. I had then 14 years. Cardinal Primate Stefan Wyszyński by his the Novena of Preparation designed during all three years when he was interned by the Order of the Soviet-Socialist Government of Poland between 1953-1956 Once released, he performed a prodigy at the name of God and in honor of the Holy Mother of God, Queen of Poland. The Copy of his IMAGE circulated for 9 years at across Poland from one diocese to another and from one parish to another. When the image has was arrested and interned, only the Symbolically continued the path, the symbolic word is for all those who do not recognize the supernatural world. We ChretiWe knew that the Virgin Saint Our Lady of Częstochowa visited our parish as well as in the outside there was only the Frame and the Candle Pascal signs of Christ his Son and Our Lord. Talking about the world supernatural where the Holy Trinity is constantly worshipped by all the Creatures that live there is not one common language. Angels and Archangels, Saints and Saints of God and their Communion with us and all Souls of Purgatory which is part of this supernatural world all exercise their ministries according to God's will. We come out of This supernatural world by a grave sin and we can be reintroduced by Holy Confession. These truths are accessible to all humanity during its pilgrimage earthly and preached by the Church.

My Vocation - I am a Christian-3

Our Homeland is in Heaven. This pithy phrase from the Letter of Saint Paul the Apostle, I certainly did not know her in the time of my young age; but I was already living it fully by striving to be a worthy citizen of this New and eternal homeland, entirely filled with peace of Christ and joy in the Holy Spirit. Christ Jesus there is this One King of the visible and invisible Universe and the Blessed Virgin, the Mother of God and our Mother is, by the grace of God with which She is filled and full, the Queen glorious of Heaven and Earth. The supernatural world is not Separated from the natural world: the latter is assumed in the first but without mixing or confusion to the image of the Incarnation which is the basis of it in what is calls the Hypostatic Union carried out in the Christ, Son of the Eternal Father and Son of Mary, the most beautiful. The place of the only Mediator between God and men held Man, Jesus the Christ, is not in competition the place that the Blessed Virgin Mary received by choice and the gratuitous decision of the Holy Trinity in the Sovereign Arrangements God had already made in the beginning and even before the Creation of Heaven and the Earth, visible and invisible things. Yes, it is true, that I would be unable to make those statements at that time. of my youth as I do now here, but I affirm and I declare to know it and to live it in a way simple as a child of God that I was and that I I am still today. I hope to keep this dignity of the Citizen of Heaven until the last day of my Land pilgrimage to be welcomed in the Celestial homeland for eternity. Jesus, I trust in You! Blessed Virgin Mary, Help me! I thank after God, of course, the Saint Madonna! Already in a great Image of His Heart Immaculate that my Parents posted on the wall of the bedroom - the window separating the other Image-that of the Sacred Heart of Jesus! Our house earthly became the antechamber of this Heaven of which I have spoken. Just look! We felt like we were loved and the gaze coming out of the eyes of these two Persons: a Divine and the other Deified Human: pierced our hearts of a ray of the Sun, whatever the situation at the outside in the natural world. In the other bedroom there was still Her in her Icon of Our Lady of Częstochowa! And then Saint Anthony! My Dad's Boss and My Dad's Boss our parish, it had its place there. He also held a Child, the same that Our Lady of the Sanctuary of the Claire Montagne! Jesus, little divine and human Child on the side of his two Natures, but as a Person only Divine: the Person of the Son of God, sorry for the Jews who have it is difficult to accept it and for Muslims it is same: You must sooner or later recognize it to be saved. I have nothing more important to announce you! Saint Joseph seems absent from the side of the Images, but giving the name to their third son after Ignatius and Casimir, our brother Joseph received A mission to be his living copy. The dad being carpenter as Jesus' adoptive father and the chaste bridegroom of the Blessed Virgin, it will be understood easily that Saint Joseph held the presumptive place in our Family of ten Persons, Parents and Children together. The Memorable meetings our life was in especially the feast of Christmas and Easter, well obviously. Already preparing for One and the otherIt was always something new and unforgettable. We don't go out the same after everything had always gone too much quickly and we had to move forward waiting for the next time when we will be a little bigger! Visits of the houses with the nursery Built in wood or costumes of the three wise men and a star Made all of light thanks to batteries electrical! We were a dozen young children and teenagers to do this in the winter nights and we returned tired and joyful to have announced the Good News of Salvation! It was like an internship in the meantime the Seminar; I speak for what concerns me, but all this was great.

My vocation - I am a Christian-4

I Just come back - on July 14 - from the chapel of Saint John Paul II, in the presbytery of the Parish of Sainte Eulalie in Bordeaux. I celebrated Holy Mass there for the France at 11 a.m. I had said in the week it is up to the parish priest to announce it and I do not know whether he did it or not; What I do know is that I was all alone celebrating it speaking according to the natural world of course, as I have explained in previous chapters. I there So come back to continue this sharing with unknown readers, but known to God and - I believe - to the Virgin Mary. I have Order on reminiscences concerning the Feast of Christmas. Now let's talk about Easter. The Lent always marked our parish existence thanks to secular practices: The Way of the Cross and Gorzkie Zale in the Presence of the Blessed Sacrament and with the Sermon on the Passion of Christ. Gorzkie Zale, they are the moving songs of the Meditations of Sufferings and of Merciful Love with Our Lady of Sorrows who offered his own sufferings in atonement for sins of all humanity and of all times by God's choice and grace which, after having constituted Mother of the Savior now by decision The ruler of this Savior constituted him as the Mother of Humanity saved in and through this Jesus Christ in the Supreme and Free Act of the Holy Trinity. Yes, I recognize once again that I would be unable to To express myself in this way at this time of my young age. But I affirm and declare that I was already living it. thus thanks to this Holy Trinity in particular by the Holy Spirit. And yet I wasn't yet confirmed, which will be done at the age of my Eighteen. My youth I lived while in the Vatican the Council proclaimed by Saint Pope John took place XXII. And when he was called to God in 1963 it was Pope Paul VI who took it up and continued with some 2500 Fathers of the Second Vatican Council. We s4est fast Reporting on external change: the use more strong of the Polish language and then the Altar turned towards the Liturgical Assembly at 180 degrees. And, at the time I didn't know it - the Week Saint was also particularly renovated. For us the young guests to attend it was almost normalm according to what we learned from the course events according to the Gospels.But for the Adults and seniors it was a kind of revolution; spiritual and strong evolution- Let us put it this way. The guards at the tomb of Christ who is there exposed in the Blessed Sacrament covered with a veil we I said, I say it for what would conceive me: So now to from Friday night-Jesus Christ? In what condition Is? Death? Since we are waiting for his Resurrection! Or alive? Since exposed in the Blessed Sacrament. It is not more to the tabernacle which is open and empty! But this Exhibition of the Sacrament what does it mean? I didn't have the answer until the time of the Seminary when I was finally able to solve this "problem". As much as the share immediately - by entering the heart of the Mystery Eucharistic, this Great Mystery of Faith. Thank you again - the opportunity is right - I thank the Lord for being baptized and welcomed into the Catholic Church and Roman. Protestants and other Christian denominations have received encouraging signs from this Church during and after the Second Vatican Council; but they are far away at a great distance from what I discovered in Asking me - in the Lord - this question mentioned more high. What happens at Holy Mass? I note at the passage that in turn in the West many of the Catholics have made the way of the Protestants; not the path of Return expected from "separated" Christians But the path away from reality of the Eucharistic Mystery so well explained by the doctor "angelic" Saint Thomas Aquinas by example: but by the Magisterium of the Church and the services of the Popes throughout the centuries. No one is came to celebrate Holy Mass for the France because many no longer see this One Mystery to be actualized before our eyes but in the supernatural world, of which I had spoken in previous chapters. The supernatural world is full of mysteries. Today We don't like mysteries. The general trend is to link the mysteries with ignorance and fight it This ignorance by revealing the secrets we want confuse with mysteries. The mysteries of the world supernatural are not secrets but on the contrary: Revelations and Divine Revelations made for humans to believe and be Saved. The sacraments mean revealing signs. As the Old Testament Prophecies were Warning Signs. In addition to being Signs Revealing, the sacraments of the Church, which are given by Christ, are Realist Signs. They realize what they mean through the Sovereign Action of the Holy Spirit in Christ Jesus and in his Church that He is building on the faith and witness of the Apostle Peter according to what He had promised him near Caesarea of Philip after Peter declared: You are Christ, the living Son of God!

The Society of Christ - The Arrival

After having told in shorthand condensed my life of man and the Christian that I am before I knew my new family which is the Society of Christ, I will Resume my story to the events of the year decisive for all my human and Christian life: They This is the year 1971. Indiscretion guilty on my part, as I had done very well know, my classmate at the Lycée Général to Stary Sącz,Kazimierz (Casimir) Kotlarz - who is like me religious priest in the said Congregation in the City Stargard near Szczecin in northwestern Poland, This indiscreet curiosity - I admit - has allowed me to finally discover my path in life, which should first pass through a large city of Poznań, where finds the General House of our Congregation. After calming down from his anger Kazimierz Kotlarz revealed to me that there is Joseph Migacz, sitting right in the bench in front of the two of us, his comrades from the Monastery of the Poor Clares who have their Cloister in Stary Sącz is also preparing to enter after the Bac at this Seminary in Poznań. In fact, in this At that time, I didn't know it was a Religious Congregation and therefore Vows: poverty, chastity and obedience etc. I only thought that it was something for me, because since my visit to Ciężkowice where the recrusting took place candidates for the Diocesan Seminary of Tarnów, I was in complete disarray and I asked to the Lord to give me a sign what should I do in the next future. At the beginning of the school year leading up to at the Bac I sent the documents for the School Polytechnic of Wrocław, a city in southwestern Poland, to become an electrical engineer or electronics and I registered for the course preparatory with the Professor of Physiqe to pass my Bac of this subject of choice. The sign being given, I went to her to tell her I was changing the field for Chemistry; because the books of this subject were thinner than those of the phisica! It sounds strange but It was true and I kept secret the reason that made me a secret. pushed to do so; I mean: Wroclaw for Poznan. Kazimierz and Joseph, my new confidants and soon brothers in the Community of Christ - Joseph Migacz is a priest religious Societas Christi and he works in Australia too For a long time that I have been France since 1982, my confidants I said told me about their adventures with the militia of the State since the day at the age of 14 years they were embarked in a police car after be reported by the Poznań Station guard; they were minors and alone at 4 a.m. in the morning. They were summoned from time to time to divert them. of this path of the Seminary and they were even slapped that they would not have their Bac if they persisted. They urged me to be discreet; otherwise no Bac probably. The change of matter For the preparation on my part, it seems to me well revealed at the Faculty of Questions: and they doubted my maneuvers since on the day of distribution of the Bac certificates, the Head of our class told me: Do not forget to invite me to your Mass of Firstfruits; Which I did seven years later. The time left to the Bac and initially for the Seminar we close and I got to know the church more closely of the Cloister founded by Saint Kinga in 1280. She was beatified a long time ago but canonization even if it was justified n'didn't tear away. It will be done 28 years later when Pope John Paul II visited Stary Sącz who was on the routes of his walks of the time he was the Bishop of Krakow and he declared Kinga Sainte. All three of us passed our Bac and the day in the middle of August,on the eve of the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary we are are found after 9 hours by train at Poznań.Thus from the Małopolska Region (Lesser Poland) we we are transferred to the capital of the Region of Wielkopolska (Greater Poland) for the time of Higher Studies in Philosophy (two years) and Theology (four years). But before all this it was the Novitiate that was waiting for us first, not far from Poznan at a distance of about ten kilometers - in Kiekrz at the Religious of the Congregation of Our Lady of Mercy who have loaned premises for this purpose at the request of the Society of Christ. Later I learned that it is from this Congregation of Religious that was even the Saint Faustina and that she also did in his life a passage of service to Kiekrz so in this Monastery. And she talks about it in her Little Journal.

The Society of Christ - Probation

The Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary to begin the Great Adventure we could not choose better than this. Some weeks of probation to explain what it was that the Congregation and what it was like the Novitiate. Thanks to the "Blessed" fault" which I had committed in January of this Year 1971, I finally find myself finding some Responses to a discomfort felt at Ciężkowice during a closed retreat organized by the Diocesan Seminary of my Church which is in Tarnów: The Lord wants me as a religious priest and in the Congregation founded forty years ago previously by Cardinal August Hlond, Primate of Poland who designated to do this by becoming the first member of this new Congregation Father Ignacy Posadzy, the priest of the Diocese of Poznań and the first candidates for this Society have redeemed at the Castle of Hrabina Potulicka in Potulice to start the first novitiate in 1932 and make their first vows in 1933, the Year of Redemption. The Founder of the Societas Christi himself was a religious priest of the Foundation of St. John Bosko, the Salesians, whose charism finds its origins in France in the Person of the Holy Bishop from Geneva, Saint Francis de la Salle, a native of the Savoy which later will be part of the France as it is the case until today. As for consecrated life and of the vows I knew almost nothing before; I knew a little bit what It was to be a diocesan priest But even in this matter we are like a little child who is asked to trust and let himself guided by the Holy Spirit and by the Superiors religious. Father Jan Jabłoński was chosen by the newly elected Superior General in this position, Father Wojciech Kania, as Master of the Novices and his Auxilier Father Joseph Bakalarz. Ora and labora - we can say - this universal motto borrowed from the Bénédictains became ours. Candidates at the Novitials arrived one after the other to do in From time to time a large group of thirty men. One day in the evening, after exhausting work around the harvest wheat and the refreshing bath in the lake called Jezioro Kierskie named after the village of Kiekrz, it was found that one of us hadn't returned At home. The research revealed that he had drowned in the waters of this lake. It was an accident: Stanislas Ptaszkowski probably submerged too fast being very warmed like all by the sun: that day and the cramps did not allow him to escape from the claws of death. I remember his father who is came to pick up and take his body for the funeral in his Parish in Ptaszkowa in southern Poland not far from Nowy Sącz, so my Region of Małopolska. Her father sad but very calm said a sentence I remembered forever: With my wife we gave it to the Lord; the Lord took him to himself; that its will be praised. God has given to this family the grace of a nun and a new Member of our Congregation in the person of Antoni Ptszkowski who currently works in Argenteuil near of Paris and for several mandates is the Econôme of our Franco-Spanish Province. For All Saints' Day of the same year some Novices of the same Region have were chosen to pray at his tomb in Ptaszkowa and I was one of them. The Camionette at this Occasion went around to visit some maisoNovices who made the trip and mine was visited in total surprise very late at night; and I found for the first time at home The electricity had been Plugged in with lamps still without any decoration all naked. I was a little ashamed in front of my comrades that Our home there was so much delay in the progress that is taking place saw everywhere go especially in this new Region that we discover: Wielkopolska! The beginning of the Christianity in Poland began precisely in this Region in the second half of IX century. First church dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary is located in Poznań and Gniezno - which with Poznan was twinned under a single Archbishop Cardinal Auguste Hlond until the end of the second World War is a Cradle of Poland on the religious coast as also on the political side by the Grace of God.

The Society of Christ - the Novitiate

In The Feast of the Archangels: St. Michael, St. Gabriel and St. Raphael we have begun our canonical novitiate. Ora And Labora continues. The Chapel is filled several times in the Day, there are Conferences on the spirit of the Congregation and its Statutes; initiation to life consecrated and the rudiments of the spiritual life according to the Gospel of Christ. Work in the fields and in the barn with cows and other animals, the construction of a bassain and the development of attics to make it a recreation room; Walks in two by two or more to get to know each other better and enter into the community fraternity in order to be united in a religious family according to the motto that our Founder has appointed us: Between us he has no distance: Między nami nie ma dali! There is a joy of being together and there are also clashes from time to time. These are men in their twenties who aspire to forge an original personality each. From various places in Poland, one of us even came from very far since from Australia. Alas it is so original that one day the Master of Novice, the Father Jan Jabłoński, took him on his motorcycle and deposited it at the General House from Poznan to be sent back to his house family in Australia. Three of us were already Diocesan seminarians who applied to become religious and receive ordination as a member of the Society of Christ for Polish Emigrants. This is the first time I've written the name complete of our Congregation, to touch the charism that is the special and precise gift that the Lord gives to candidates who come knocking on the door of our Community. In June of 1972 we took bicycles to go very far north to Goleniów for funeral of Father Stanisław Rut and we visited Szczecin and our Parish of the Sacred Heart. We are decreasing in number Unfortunately. Wiesław, one of them being part of Our battalion, did not have to make a great road to do so; he was from Poznań. A tired day After picking potatoes he had sitting on his basket filled with this product and expressed His disappointment: I thought we will soon sent abroad and I realize that it will not happen so quickly and in addition we are made traviller so hard that I have neither habit nor strength for that; and he left us. I myself also failed to do so! And I thank the Lord for keeping me even in this new Family, his Family, the Society of Christ. And here's how. In autumn with the mists And the first signs of the cold, I got sick and stayed several days at the Infermerie. One took care of me, there were visits from colleagues and consolations expected and welcome. Far from my first Family feeling nostalgia after them: Parents, brothers and sisters, I was waiting for the major visit of the Master of Novitiate and finally on the third or fourth day it is came to see me. You are apparently too weak to aspire to be a missionary; Just imagine: we're sending you to Brazil and there the climate you know it's not like in Poland etc. So think well and realize that very probably this is not your place; I tell you, better is worth making good choices than being in charge of the others... and he's gone... It was like a thunder! The same day in the evening I programmed my leak; I will leave here without warningr person; in the night. I packed my suitcase and went out of the Infirmary to Lead to the exit door taking advantage of the fact that all were in the Chapel celebrating a Rosary with the Exhibition of the Blessed Sacrament if I do not Don't deceive. How? You'd go out like that, without greeting me and Say goodbye? I knew that this soft inner voice and strong at the same time had something to say to me: I approached the small sacristy and saw that he There is no one I am there to hear: or make myself a following thought: Why this precipitation! First sleep another night or two and Then you'll see what you do! I did it and in the morning I had a little trouble remembering what had happened past the day before. Oh, yes. I was angry against the Master of Novices who instead of granting me a Consolation had rather found me too weak to become a missionary. So what am I going to decide? Lord Jesus you want me here or elsewhere; maybe I have to go to Tarnów to become anyway A diocesan priest? And an idea that comes as a little bird: What if it was a simple update The test? This Master of Novices will have to say one day who he thinks can make his vows and who can't. If he comes back to the charge then you'll see... He is never again spoken to me in this way. It was my secret and his; Nor have I ever asked him this question: Why did you act like that. After twelve months of Niviciat, I was admitted to say my wishes on September 29, 1972. And I went in at the Major Seminary to study with a view to being One day ordained a priest!

The Society of Christ - The Seminary

The first Seminary is the Family with the Parish of Housing and the time to become a man and a Christian whose experiences I have shared such as the fruits of natural and supernatural divine graces in Collaboration with the free will given to each human person at conception and birth for which is natural graces and Baptism when it This is the beginning of the supernatural life that has absolutely Need supernatural graces to develop up to the measure of maturity that bears the name holiness. Everything is grace - rightly said Saint Thérèse of Lisieux indicating the very Simple towards this holiness to attain: trust! Second Seminary so for me began in October 1972 when with the others I received the Index Academic in the hands of the Rector of the Seminary on Professor Father Bogusław Nadolski. For two years of philosophical matter and four years of theological subject. Here were the Philosophical fields studied: Introduction to philosophy, Metaphisics, Theodycea, Psychology, Philosophical Antropology, Ethics, Philosophy of religion, Philosophy of nature, History of philosophy, theory of knowledge, formal logic, General methodology of science. Readerships: Latin language, Greek language, English language, French language. Philosophical studies, God helped me to Finish them with the note "very good". Glory be to to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit! And here were the Theological fields studied: Introduction to Sacred Scripture, Biblical Archaeology, Sacred Scripture of the Old Testament, Holy Scripture of the New Testament, Patrology, Liturgical , Fundamental Theology, Dogmatic Theology, Ecumenical Theology, Moral Theology, Ascetic Theology, Theology General Pastoral Theology, Pastoral Theology of emigration, Canon Law, History of the Church, Catholic Social Ethics, Pedagogy, Catechetical, Homiletics, History of sacred art, Liturgical chant, Pastoral medicine. Theological studies, God helped me finish them with the note "very well." I applied to get to The Catholic University of Lublin a Bachelor's degree in the Faculty of Theology and, thank God I got it on March 15, 1978 with the result Final "very good". There are of course plenty of memory of this period of my life; Studies were only a part of the life of the Seminary; essential but only a part; Activities spiritual and manual work for example in the service of meals, nettoyages of the premises and rooms that we changed every six months with new roommates (we were usually by three occupants of the same room) and Sport of course, outings, parish internships and return to the Family House for Christmas time and the New Year, and then a month's holiday with the Parents and a other in Designated Parish in the territory of North-West Poland or not far from Wroclaw where trod the parishes served by the parish priests members of our Congregation for example in Ziembice, in Pyrzyce or Szczecin where our most common parish was located. large of 30 thousand parishioners under the title of the Sacred Heart which is today a Shrine of the Sacred Heart for the Diocese of Szczecin. As for Football I was the goalkeeper of our Seminary team and played in the Championship between the Major Seminaries sometimes with un some success! Thanks to the Team! Letting the ball pass was always for me a catastrophe. And who likes to lose? I will not talk about the subjects studies neither philosophical nor theological, but I will share here some research and discoveries I had worked to obtain this license mentioned in the middle of this chapter. These are the Liturgy and in particular of liturgical creativity according to the authors who had dealt with this subject in French. But it will be in the next chapter. I will conclude this one by referring to the Rector who was in this position when I Finished my studies: It was the father Edward Szymanek. To him and to the entire Coprs Professoral of the Seminar of that time a big "Thank you" for the service rendered to us. And also to all Persons of the Accompagement Team and Administrative Services and all Others. This same for the University of Lublin.

My Vocation - I am a priest

Towards the end of the Seminary of the Society of Christ each seminarian is required to search the area of interest and under the direction of the Professor of the field. For me the choice was on the Liturgy and the Professor of Liggical Father Bogusław Nadolski agreed to direct me and then to the University of Lublin in the same field it was the Professor Father Wojciech Danielski who accepted to be the Promoter of my Memorial on "The creativity in the liturgy". I was interested to the Catholic Liturgy for obvious reasons. In As a Catholic priest I will have to celebrate regularly the Great Eucharistic Mystery, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Personally I was not not initiated to celebrate it in language Latin. The post-conciliar changes meant that the Office of the Present Time (Breviary) as well as the Liturgy Eucharistic and Sacramentary have been since that time (1972) celebrated in vernacular languages: en Polish for Poles, French for French etc. We already had at the time heard about the problems of opposition to this new deal; Archbishop Marcel Lefêbvre began to be known also in Poland. I was reading French-language Qrticle who talked about creativity in the liturgy and I composed a Memoir to this topic. From the perspective of the past time I recognize that the subject was problematic and still is When we realize the abberrations suffered by the Holy Mass through initiatives taken by some priests considering that the faithful have the right to everything understand what happens at Mass. This is not as simple as some sorcerer's apprentices imagined You might say. Coming to France to serve the Church of this country I was quickly realizing that people do not understand still not what this great Mystery is and still less when they were able to experience changes and improvisations arbitrariness and experimentation carried out without any control. That I don't think that Monsignor Lefêbvre's traditionalists are right to reject the New Rite of the Mass. But we can cołtake their fears. Without rejecting the Rite either. Ancient: the motu proprio of Benedict XVI is a good soution I think so. This allows me to continue here The subject of chapter 4 of "I am a Christian" In new form since May 31, 1978 I became a priest by the Presbyteral Ordination that is to me came by the service of the Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Poznań Monsignor Marian Przykucki at the request of the Rector of our seminary Father Edward Szymanek. One year before I was ordained a deacon of the Church Catholic and after another year, I Voice a priest! The journey of Probation, Novitiate, Seminar with its philosophical studies and theological and a Bachelor's degree at the University of Lublin, allowed me to ask to be ordained priest. But to tell the truth it is not not like this to look at the Sacraments as I have already tried to do this by going back to the Easter Mystery of Christ and His Gifts and Signs of three genera: Annunciators, Revelators and Directors. You never have any right to ask for that. It is only necessary to have a Vocation for this from the by the Lord. We were about thirty men at start Probation and Novitiate and yet we were not than eleven to receive priestly ordination after seven years of preparation. One day at the Seminar, I remember, a seminarian with whom I shared the room was listening to the music When the doorbell called us to a celebration in the evening. His thought blew me away: Oh those Bells! We are asked all the time to go and pray we Fed up! He didn't stay long after the Seminar; He went to do something else. On the other hand, the brother of my sister-in-law from Kłaj near Krakow made all the studies necessary for the Seminar of Tarnów and was not ordained priest even if he wanted it so much and he is remained single until today. I I feel sorry for him, Mirosław Kasprzyk, and surely still others that could not be ordered. It is the Lord who decides this or His Church in communion with Him. It is a great mystery that the Priesthood. I now know what I'm talking about after years of living it; but as long as you are not a priest we know almost nothing about it! It's the same to be a mother or father; It looks the same; although here the Decision is rather one hundred percent that of Christ! Our response is to let yourself be done and to follow Him. I want the do until the last breath and I ask Him for this grace to be able to do it! I'm always overwhelmed that He I chose to be his disciple without any merit from me; in his great mercy. Misericordias Domini in Aeternum cantabo.

My Vocation - I am a deacon

Ordination Diaconal preceded odination Presbyteral of about one year. I was ordained a deacon in May 1977. I remember from this year in particular the internship pastoral care at the Parish of Saint John the Baptist and the joy of Baptize the first children in my ecclesial service. It's true that reading the Gospel and doing the Homily is for a new Deacon that I was brought me in in an unforgettable experience during this internship and then in returning to my parish of origin I quickly realized that it is no longer the same. The mystery is there. The Christ took hold of my "self" and started to act without destroying myself but I I realized quite quickly that it is grace that acts and Not me. I was comparing the two facts for example. During my internship pastoral care in summer 1976 in Ziębice le Curé asked me to prepare the Homelie and the say after he has read the Gospel. So I have it done and I was happy but comparing this contentment with what I felt now, a year later, I saw the following difference and I had one little shame. This satisfaction of giving the homily and Pronouncing it publicly sends me back to myself and was selfish in herself. It was even more blatant a few months later during Christmas in my parish of origin. The parish priest proposed to me to sermon at Midnight Mass. You're close by of your diaconal ordination then I authorize you to do it. In my Parish! In front of all those who know me and before my Family and at Midnight Mass! One might expect To congratulations and words of pride: it was Ok; thou hast spoken well; We were all moved etc.. And it was the case but after ordination Diaconal I had reread in memory those moments and I was even more ashamed of it in the case of Ziębice. The Lord thus gave me lessons in my conscience! Tone "I" will prevent "my grace" to act. I was then beginning to learn how to to be and become a disciple. I will go even further "the grace" moves away from man, from Christian, of the deacon and the priest and religious whom I am, if "my self" does not annihilate itself before the glory of the Lord on His own initiative; it is to Tell by the truth of who is who and who does what? You will know the truth and the truth will set you free. If anyone wants to be my disciple that he renounces himself that he takes his own Cross every day and let him follow me. That's what is said clearly and clearly by Jesus and that I exprerhyme every day especially since my diaconal ordination and that of which followed him within a year: ordination Priestly. Let's stay on this first which is also for all life and yet we do not think about it and sometimes we forget it Completely once you are a priest. Le Christ Servant yet did not stop washing the feet (human consciences) once glorified; have Only pretagated this service with his own: receive the Holy Spirit to whom you will forgive their sins they will be forgiven. I remember thinking to this new diaconal service that deacons do not exercise step; I was wondering why? The answer lay in the mystery of the priesthood; As a deacon I could not Really know. If I pretended to know her this would once again be "my self" and not "grace" who would act. It sounds complicated everything I say and I write there, but it is not if the Grace is there and my self diminishes. What Saint Said Jean-Baptiste: Now He must grow and that I Decreases. I personally think that this Predecessor of the Messiah had a mission of Deacon in the New Testament and a mission of the Prophet and Priest of the Old Testament. I put forward this hypothesis on the occasion of reflect on the Permanent Diaconate in those who are calls thus and in all those who begin a day of a New ordination to be called priests or bishops and who are also always the permanent Deacons. We were allowed to be able to give Communion at Holy Mass somewhat. time before being ordained deacons. There were the Minor services: readership and acolyte - and then we were says: You are going on a pastoral internship for Holy Week and Feast Easter; You will be able to help the priests to give the Holy Eucharist. I think it was - I remember well an emotion really impossible to describe until today. Tap the Body of Christ with my hands and to nourish the People of God with Bread who came down from Heaven. It never left me at every Mass is also a diaconal service. Once a deacon Again there I felt "the grace" of the New state. I was already giving Communion before But "my self" took advantage of the opportunity to play of my emotions. The taste of power what! Yes! If the State grace is not commlètement recognized as it is and what it is human glory invaded us fast enough to bring us even to a certain pride; Let us tell us things as they are; Let's not be Hypocrites; the mother of John and James who came to Jesus to ask him for the highest possible places at his cherish sons and a lesson to take and To learn. We do not have in itself a natural taste to serve but rather to serve oneself or to be served. Jesus Himself openly declares in contradiction with this attitude: the Son of Man Did Not Come to Be Served but to serve and give his life as a ransom for the multitude. Diaconal service and priestly service are clearly there. defined, in this short and pithy sentence. At the premiere part of the sentence corresponds to the Permanent Diaconate and the second, the priesthood.

My Vocation - I am a religious

I have not forgotten once ordained deacon and then ordained priest that I am since the Feast of Archangels: Saint Michael, Saint Gabriel and Saint Raphael of the 29th September 1972 a religious, member of the Society of Christ. So I come back to this subject quietly to Rejoice in this and share it once I have Realized the new states and new graces granted to me by the Segneur God: The Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, One Living and true God, the Most Holy Trinity. Be a person consecrated to this God moves me and pushes me to great recognition. It is his choice and not the my; it was He who had chosen me as He did in the Old and New Testaments. And I know that I don't Don't know why? When I was a young boy I observed the other boys, I saw one of them, from neighborhood, named Władysław Owsianka and I thought: Surely he will be called to the priesthood; but it wasn't the case. I was already talking about my beautiful brother. sister Wiesława, the wife of my brother Ignacy; Mirosław Kasprzyk was very good at everything and resourceful; He has done all the necessary studies philosophical and theological, I see it again in the photo of my Mass of First Fruits in procession: beautiful boy and intelligent and yet he is not a priest. I have View our group of religious after our vows of September 29 1972 decrease from month to month and by one trentainte at the beginning be eleven to be ordained as a priest. Being with Mirosław in the same family due to my brother's marriage As seminarians, I talked with him during the holidays in visiting the young couple of spiritual things and I saw the Differences between his view of what should be done in the Church and his own; I wanted him to improve; But he told me: you are religious so you think like that, me I'm preparing to be a diocesan priest So that's where the difference comes from; I was not convinced of his explanation. And I think than if he had listened to me and changed me His point of view, he would have become a priest. I'm not certainly, but I think so. The Gospel is the same for Everybody; God's choices are diverse, but he needs the workers at the harvest. His advice to resolve the Shortage of vocations is prayer! Being religious It is keeping the flame of prayer alive! It's always refer us back to the grace of God. The sentence famous of Saint Teresa of the Child Jesus: "All is grace!" appears exaggerated but he is a Doctor of the Church since 1997 proclaimed by Saint John Paul II. Sa Vita Consecrata is a Document to read and reread, again and again, to grasp what it is to be religious. By the way - Saint John Paul II will be proclaimed Doctor of the Church very soon, I am one convinced. In entering the Society of Christ I do not knew nothing of what religious life is; but really nothing. I discovered only by introducing myself already in front of the Reception Officer of the General House in Poznań, Father Edmund Kufel, that it is the Congregation and to be first a religious and then after being admitted to making Vows through the Novitiate could possibly be register for the Major Seminary etc. I said to myself: Since I'm already here and in a way Quite unusual, let's take a closer look at what it is all of it. And I stayed as I can see as I go along. and as being sure of nothing, especially after to have lived this ordeal that I have debatedalready shared where I had to stop pursuing the path started. Now it is one of the most old religious that I find myself having 42 years of seniority You might say. So what would I say about that? Let it all be Holds! That is what I would say! Provided that man does not separate what God has a ;i! These words send us back to the discussion between the Pharisees and Jesus Christ at about marriage; but Jesus' answer is valid for many more situations than we think at first sight. The work of unity and uniqueness is a common pastoral work of God and man. These are always of the Alliance. I learned to learn this keyword of all the history of humanity. This applies to the natural world as well as to the supernatural world. Cea Applies to marriage and to religious life as well. My colleague in the Society of Christ working in the same Diocese, Jarosław Kucharski, is leaving this Congregation and become only diocesan priest; isn't it: to separate what God has united in him? Not Looks like this to the divirce and lq rupure of alliance? Yes, you are Yes, you are... But he will remain a priest! Okay it will remain so and even he will remain a deacon in addition according to what we have said just now. But he will no longer be a religious. Thank you to my Community for welcoming me 42 years ago years in its bosom and allow me to be religious and in Alliance with her that I hope forever! Again Thank you!

Envoy on mission - the priesthood

I have referred to in the previous chapter of the word of Christ concerning him: The Son of man is not Not to be served but to serve and give one's life in Ransom for the multitude. I wrote that the The second part of the sentence concerned his priesthood. We priests share in his One Priesthood through the grace of God. What a mystery! We don't know him than if we are there! I was making images and assumptions in my Little head of man, Christian, religious and finally of deacon but all this was nothing in front of reality. Again this is a reality of Grace. There is more in us grace precedes the other grace so that everything be put in a good place! The first months of the mission Pastoral care quickly check where we are with all this. The human nature, I have already said prefers to be served or to be served than to be at service. And yet: to be a priest is to serve the Priesthood of Christ and not to use it even for good causes. I had in my first parish four villages to serve so every Sunday four Masses in celebrate and in two villages do catechism from morning until evening. It was in Suchań near Stargard, as vicar of the parish priest, the father Tadeusz Jóźwiak, one year and then, the new parish priest, the Father Józef Kosobucki, for the second year. My predecessor to this position of vicar, Father Zenon Broniarczyk, was about to leave for Australia. How happy and enthusiastic I was to accomplish this service, this mission, and to fulfill my life of the Joy of serving and being useful. "Giving your life in ransom"- then that's what it means to be priest according to the heart of Christ. Children, young people, men and women, the sick and the elderly. I thank Father Tadeusz for trusting and Guide on the first steps of parish ministry! Two years Well lived and well filled with all kinds of graces received and services rendered. I was learning like a Novice how to allow grace to age to From the supernatural world to this natural world if Wounded everywhere and in need of the divine mercy. And then come that memorable day and unforgettable in this year 1978. Yes, the election Cardinal Karol Wojtyła as Pope John Paul II. Five months to Pain to be a priest and to have one for 27 years and a half under his pontificate. I am happy to be born and to living in this period of Church history and of the humanity where my compatriot accomplished its noble mission. And still to live as a man that I am and Poles, but that was not enough for Divine Providence! No, God wanted me to be with him the deacon, the priest and the religious. The height of happiness and grace! Lord that That's wonderful. Already when this happened, I return to that evening of October 16, 1978, but since and Until recently, on 27 April 2014 Sat canonization in Rome. I can't believe this! But I have to come back to share the discoveries of the young person's life priest that I was in my First Parish. I was shocked! In the village Słodkówko Only a third of the inhabitants came Sunday at Holy Mass. Unthinkable compared to my Parish of origin. And then by going to celebrate the Easter mass in another village Słodkowo I saw the men take out their horses and wagons to go to work in the fields! It wasn't better in other villages and I had pitof them. The Lord Me was preparing for my future mission in France, but I didn't know how to screw it up. After the first few months From enthusiasm came a certain weariness. I thought that this small third of practitioners will soon change into half and then in two years there will be only one third of non-practicing, rebellious and recalcitrant. Again Once, I admit, I let myself be trapped by "my me" and "the grace of God" was not there. step! A pretty girl then approached me to give a hand and I needed it but... it is not No reason... it's that someone... who attracts and who shoot... no matter to him. the demon. He wants succeed... beautiful Olga! One day I told him. Let's take all the two the rosary and recite it aloud, otherwise Nothing is going well anymore I am at the end of strength, I calls to God's grace, otherwise I leave From here, I must run away! I understand better now and since that moment the place and role of the Saint Madonna! She had reached out to me and She made me Get out of danger and the demon would be happy to have successful. Thank you Lord! Thank you, Marie! And thank you Life! Be In love with a pretty girl there are no more things Easy. Since I know where I was I testifies to the truth. Some of my colleagues and confreres have left the priesthood and I stand firm Thus far; But who am I to judge them? I pray for them from time to time. Better have done those who are party before the Seminar, it was still the time... But then?... But now? No! Hail Mary full of grace! Get me this grace to fulfill my mission to the end and to remain what I am: a man, a religious, a deacon and a priest of the Lord!

France I've loved you since we first met

If he There are first names that have double use and this is the case from the name "France" someone might think that I Spread my flame to a pretty girl! Of course not! It's of the France I am speaking! of this beautiful and wonder-filled country, the eldest daughter of the Church. Before the Second holiday in my life as a priest, the proposal reached my address: Could you replace both priests in France so that they can rest? I have never been abroad before, even in Poland nowhere else than once in Częstochowa, once in Krakow and then seven years in Poznań and Kiekrz. Now in the Diocese of Szczecin, a Parish of the Seven Villages and this invitation: To go to France that for holidays. I agreed! First times I also had to fly. Or rather it was the plane that was supposed to take me. July and August 1980, here is in Montigny-en-Ostrevant department of the North. If I have given this title to the chapter is that it was Love at first sight. Two months spent in the diocese of Cambrai and carrying out a pastoral mission to the Poles from the families of miners' incense, a large coal mine in this village and in neighbouring Pecquancourt. First month of July with Father Ludwik Słomiany and the second of August with Father Jan Guzikowski. We cannot understand this wind of Freedom that blows on you when you leave the Country under the unhealthy and oppressive regime! I breathed fresh air at the top of your lungs and then, what a joy to discover in pilgrimage Our Lady of Lourdes. It is through Her all graceful and beautiful that I became in love with France. Finally, we know that I speak of a Country but I am now talking about a Girl, a Virgo, of a Woman, this time without any danger as in the past, on the contrary! Father Stanisław Stefanek Vice-General of our Congregation, that will soon become Bishop Auxilière of Szczecin does me great good by sending me to this missio,n of replacement, I am very grateful, for this and also to teach us at the Seminary the rudiments of The Old Testament. The quiet month of July but not the month August; What for? Strikes in Gdański and Szczecin and Silesia and elsewhere: Solidarność (Solidarity)! After the visit of the Polish Pope to his native country in 1979, the nation moves and wakes up; She is no longer afraid because that she believe the word of this Slavic Pope: Not afraid! Victoire's place the previous year filled with crowds in Warsaw defying the regime Out of breath and powerless to change life for the better. And now here are the workers who reject a workers' party: The tug-of-war and the successful negotiations to what we know since. When I go back to Poland for On September 1, the Agreements; the government gave in; Free trade union will be able to exist and defend people etc. I learn that I am transferred to Szczecin in the Parish of Sacred Heart! The one we visited in coming there by bike from the Novitiate. A very large proisse of 30 thousand inhabitants. From the countryside to the big city then. A new experience as many Masses on Sunday but in the same church: Five homilies on the other hand and then the High School Students and the numerous visits to the Families at home all the time. It's like a Great spiritual factory of course. I live in the attic, a only round window and heat in summer impossible life; the parish priest Stanisław Misiurek and several vicaiIncluding me among them and retired priests. And also the Brethren of the Society of Christ, the religious but not priests or deacons: one is sacristan, the other - cook, and the other still decorator: Piotr Szafranek, my neighbor in the attic. Szczecin lives historical moments like Gdansk and like all Poland By the way. I see people breathing a bit like I do in France recently the area of freedom. After of a year of intense work here I am designated to go abroad after next Christmas on a mission! Where, do you think? In France! Yes, after return from the famous holiday - my room spoke only French; running cassettes and rehearsals; I have Took to high school but that was ten years ago! I have found in France in vcances that I was almost none in this area; all the French I had Meeting spoke too fast and the journalists at the TV even faster. So, I understand: my Neighbors in the attic were fed up with French. They have perhaps said to the Superior: this one must send him as soon as possible to France with whom he has become in love. You will do your papers before Christmas: Pasport you already have it, But you need a new visa. Very well.. In the meantime you will serve at the Cathedral of Saint James. Le dimache tu celebrated Holy Mass there at 7 a.m. morning. 11 December 1981 Everything is ready: the passport contains the visa of the Embassy of France in Warsaw. In a few days I will cross Poland by train from the top in low to go live the last Christmas in the Family and the Parish where I come from. And then I'll say goodbye to all and long live Poland and long live France. He fell A lot of snow on those days. On Sunday morning I get up early to celebrate Mass at 7 a.m. at the Cathedral. The homily is ready on joy as St. Paul the Apostle asks in the second reading, it is Sunday called: Laetare which means joy.

Poland my homeland, I will never forget you

The December 13, Sunday is still dark, I leave the Presbytery of the Sacred Heart and I make the way to the Cathedral of St. James in Szczecin, I enter In the sacristy, I put on the priestly vestments and I go out into the church and I start the Celebration of the third Sunday of the Before. The Gospel and the homily on joy; After a few moments I I realize that something is wrong. People go out handkerchiefs and they cry. What's going on? I shortened the homily and I continue the Mass and give the blessing. After Thanksgiving I return to the Sacristy and I see some parishioners who is addressed to me: So you don't know? I don't know what? General Jaruselski proclaimed to midnight the state of war; many members of Solidarnćść were arrested and interned for some time. .part... etc That's the general surprise, nobody did not expect this. General block of the Country. For one cannot leave his Region without authorization of the militia. I went to the police station on Monday and we Take my passport with the French visa and we put a Stamp: Cancelled. Nothing is more valid. We cannot call nowhere; Everything is blocked. I requests permission to go by train to Warsaw to ask the Primate of Poland to intervene in the Ministry of the Interior to be let go in France as planned. I get the dispatch and in Warsaw the intervention Cardinal Józef Glemp is crowned with success; In a few days everything is again validated the visa Y Understood. I ask after returning to Szczecin authorization to leave for the Region of Maùopolska in my Village, my Family and my Parish original. The Lord has made it possible to cross all the Obstacles. After Christmas and New Year I still asks for permission to go by train to Poznań then to Warsaw again to catch the plane and go France. On January 17, 1982 I left Poland qvec two suitcases to start the new life and mission, perhaps for the rest of my earthly life. God alone knows! When I left Poland I was thirty years old. I write These so.uvenir thirty-two and a half years later in 2014 and I have not forgotten Poland my first Fatherland! But I have adopted the France and she too adopted me: it is my second homeland and I love the France. God I is witness that I really love him! I like the Poland since loving is my Vocation and since I am a man, since I am a Christian, since I am a religious, since I am a deacon, since I am a priest. Yes all this is true and my love for Poland is true, as the one for the France is also true. Everything I had written in the first chapters on my Vocation is an explanation thus given the question why my Vocation is love. I agree with Little Therese in saying this. from Carmel to Lisieux. And I'm writing this on July 16, when the Church venerates the Blessed Virgin Our Lady of Mount Carmel.Lq Vocation to Love it is revealed in a way sublime in this Virgin and Mother of God the Magnificent. And this what Saint Teresa of the Child wrote Jesus and the Holy Face is extraordinary. Here are these words that I take pleasure in quoting: "Charity gave me the key to my vocation. I understood that if the Church had a body, composed of different members, the most necessary, the noblest of all did not fail him; I understood that the Church had a Heart, and that this Coeyour was burning with love. I understood that Love alone felt. act the members of the Church, that if Love came to to extend, the Apostles would no longer announce the Gospel, the Martyrs would refuse to shed their blood... I understood that love enclosed all vocations, that Love was everything, which he embraced all time and all places...; in a word, that it is eternal... Then In the excess of my delirious joy, I cried: O Jesus, my Love... My vocation, finally I found it, my vocation is love... Livres des Jours AELF Paris 1976 p.1608n

I like Poland as a man

The incident which took place at Stary Sącz High School in the French class when I told the French teacher, Mrs. Anna Hasko that I was a Pole and that Poland I will never leave because I loves it and I think I'll stay there forever, this event was already a revelation for me too. I realized at that time for the first time times so much how much I loved him my homeland, Poland, at that time I was in danger of having A very bad rating at least if not worse. But Mrs. Anna Hasko, who taught us to love France teaching us French was too smart for not understanding my declaration of love for the Poland. She looked me in the eye and stared at my a young man of 17 or 18 years old and said to me: My child how can you say that you will not leave Poland since you will not Can't know your future? And it was a Right answer! She was not going to challenge or devalue my love for Poland; it was aimed only at my ignorance of what the future will reveal to About my residency. One can reside elsewhere than in Poland and still love it which is my case. My love for Poland is at first a natural love for a man whom I am. In my nature as a man everything came to me from the part of her. My parents were both Polish and descendants of Poles. Everything they had received from their own Parents they tried to us pass on their children to us. Already in the Choice of the first names they gave us one after the others Poland was not forgotten even if it was the Church they thought of before all for example: Ignatius, Joseph, Mary, Thérèse and Andrew, the last. But my name: Casimir and my sister: Stanisława, who came just one year after me, it's an explicit reference to the history of the Poland. I became aware of it quite quickly and the Parents confirmed this interpretation. The Poland of their time was very poor and she was just coming out of the opression foreign of its three neighbours after 123 years of tireless resistance and several insurrections heroic. My father was born in 1921 when the Poland had been healing its wounds for three years free and sovereign but only for twenty years. The terrible war Hitler and Stalin as a pincer then go again a times trying to annihilate it forever. I have grew up under the Stalinist regime and then under false pretenses of the so-called "social justice" ideology. If I have to tell the whole truth I admitted in My philosophical reflections and discussions with others Visions of things that things were more complex than what could be judged by each other. The idea to combat illiteracy was just idea and we were all beneficiaries through free and compulsory schooling. If this Were it only Poland and its nation would not have not to revolt against the obvious progress. But forget its millennial history and depreciate it at the price of allegiance to a foreign country like the Sivietic Union by hiding the "agreements" from the people of Theheran and those of Jalta it was one thing abominable. As a man only I challenged them and I sought to manifest it by the categorical refusal. to carry the red flag during school mnifestations. And then when I learned from my father that we played each other of him by pressuring him to join the Party louseR Receiving help for his large family I was angry. My natural love for Poland was based on my reason of man and on historical truth. Grace To the father who had this historical knowledge reinforced by five years of emigration where nostalgia for the country in the grip of aggression on all sides gave him the moral strength to transmit to his children that what is most important is to give oneself by work and prayer to his family, to his homeland and through all this to give themselves entirely to Creator God who is very worthy to receive from our share this recognition and gratitude. In the last ten Years of his life my dad was blind. But he was always aware of what was happening in Poland and in the world. It was thanks to the radio - technically speaking - that I am offered to him, but speaking differently and strongly, it was thanks to Radio Maryja founded by Father Tadeusz Rydzyk in Torun, town of Copernicus. I thank this religious priest of the Congregation of the Redemptorist Fathers for this great gift offered to my father and to all of Poland. The history of the Poland is all natural and rational; those who love it as a reasonable and intelligent man and woman do not put themselves in the compromises of alleviance and obedience to no one but God who had it created and maintained with generations Before, now, and the future according to one's own Plans and designs

I like Poland as a Christian

I left Poland thirty-two and a half years ago in its situation dramatic, as I have already told in one of the previous chapters. She wanted to get rid of an unhealthy system that oppressed him for so long. The state of war set in motion against the Polish nation thanks to the presence of the Pope John Paul II at the Commende of the Moral Authority that the Church holds from the Creator and Saviour of the world Jesus Christ, his offer of the suffering he suffered at the continuation of the atentate against him in the Place de Saint Pierre in Rome is of his prayer added to that of the Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski who died at the end of May 1981, obtained Heaven's help for the continuation of events that within a period of seven years brought the first Elections still half-free, but it was already a great progress and finally thanks to God the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit we made this year 2014 twenty-five years of the Poogne libre and unacceptable. As a Christian I am happy to be able to Write all this in a simple and true way: I received everything from Poland also all that God has for it. had given as a legacy in the domain of the world supernatural thanks to the Catholic Church that he has been installed there for almost 1050 years for generations and generations that would pass on its natural and historical territory despite All the vagaries of foreign forces political,social,economic,cultural,spiritual and others may even be occult and diabolical. As a Christian, despite the distance that separates me philosically from my native country and I manifest it in me all surrender The years to spend my holidays there, I continue to love the Poland even more strongly by being distant of it and noting that it is in danger of infidelity to one's own soul Christian by imported ideologies now from the West as harmful if not more than the one she vigorously repelled after the armistice of the Second World War. Poland I love as a Christian and defend according to All means available to me - this written testimony This is one of the signs of this - and I would defend it. always according to this trinity of values: God, Honor, Fatherland that the historical defenders of Poland put always on the cloths. Quend this is the first Values it is not another God that Poland wants to serve than the Holy Trinity: the Father and the Son and the Holy One Spirit. As a Christian it is of the Church that is in Poland and precisely in Tarnów that I have received this Divine Revelation. Les Saintes Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments with the Saint Tradition and the Pontifical Roman Magisterium are for the Poland and for the Catholic Christians who live there and for all Polish Emigration old and new expression of the Truth that cannot be discussed and cannot be discussed discuss. All human thoughts in all history of humanity and all human thoughts of all people currently living on Earth (7 billion about) are not worth a single divine thought or a single one word of God who was willing to reveal himself in parculate in his Son Jesus Christ only Lord and alone Save to whom all power has been given by his Father in Heaven and on Earth in Their Common Love and Mutual that bears the Name of the Holy Spirit. This domain of God Unique, Alive and True is only accessible to Christians; the others, whoever they are, have not than to listen to it and to convert earlier or later; As long as it's not too late! Second value is the Honour that Poland has to always defended and will defend it in any case I Hope so! As the First Value we have Tried to describe is defended by the three virtues theological: Faith, Charity and Hope, This second value is defined and defended by the four moral virtues: prudence, justice, strength and temperance. The former are given only to Christians and the latter every human person can acquire if it makes a necessary effort to this acquisition by working on its character and other elements of its nature: intelligence, will and memory. Christians are helping also in this field greatly by supernatural grace but Any person may request and obtain from God's part, even if He is Unknown or not yet recognized, the natural graces that God does not refuse to no person of good will. What to look for and to find it is the truth as it is presents itself more and more to the human consciousness. The One truth exists whatever one says and the others, but she does not let herself be reached by any person human in order to be monopolized and used for reasons other than true Love. Associated with to Love in an Eternal Covenant the Truth Unique natural and supernatural united by union Hypostatic of two natures: Divine and Human in Jesus Christ always operates at the command of the Father Eternal and unfolds in power of the Action of The Holy Spirit. Jesus summed it up thus: I am the Way and the Truth and the Life; no one can go to My Father without going through Me! Finally, the third value to be revealed and to defend it is the Fatherland. This value has need to be well understood and it is not possible without good replication; one can be attacked being a patriot as a natiolalist, fascist, chovinist, racist, fundamentalist as well as Christian, populist, etc. To love Poland is not forbidden to anyone; but we can't to love humanly speaking only what we learn by being there interesting on the side of language, culture, of traditions and history, of the mentality that is the Slavic way of thinking etc. The word Fatherland comes from the word "father". I would have nothing against it if in our time we would speak of the "Matrie" in naming the same indisputable value. Challenging the duty to love his Homeland or his Matrie is to want to contest and contradict God's Command: Your father and your mother Hononera and you will live long on your land where you live!

I like Poland as a religious

In as long as a religious I lived in Poland for ten years between 1972 and 1982. But I can say that I loved him as a that religious of the Society of Christ since 1932 is to say since the foundation of this Congregation New in the Church by the Primate of Poland, the Archbishop of Gniezno and Poznań, Cardinal August Hlond. And it was twenty years before I was born in this same land of Poland. This I know requires an explanation and I think to have arguments to prove it. The Religious Congregation is a God's work that calls men to follow him on his plan and project. No member then if he becomes a member of this Oeuvre no longer acts in its own name but in the name of the Congregation under the responsibility of those who take the place and function of the Superiors. All the good natural and supernatural spiritual obtained through cooperation with God in this Common Work becomes a common heritage for all those who were pioneers, following and until today and today and after until the very weather whether the Congregation can be extinct historically speaking for example by lack of new candidates. So my love of Poland as a religious thanks to God and to my brothers began twenty years before God created my person with the collaboration of my Parents Antoni and Janina. If someone has not been convinced by this explanation it is not necessary; I give my testimony and I do not pretend to convince anyone that I am telling the truth. My conscience is at peace and That's what I'm looking for. I thank God for creating me and to want to be a member of the Christ. My love of Poland thus expanded to join a large part of Poles living outside its Borders. And very concretely and practically in France since 1982. I was sent there by my Congregations in the Dispositions of the Superiors Major for the Province which today is Franco-Spanish. Counting the time of my natural and supernatural presence as a full member of the Society of Christ I am approaching 42 full and active years on all aspects of the life of man devoted to Love of God and Neighbor; and this Next is the Poland as a whole, the one whose children live on its geographical territory and that of which the children are geographically speaking scattered and live on the five continents of the earth. This work of the Community is a service with needs of all kinds that is present with the people who come to meet us or No; A whole part of help is of the spiritual order natural or supernatural spiritual order we ask for and obtain from God directly as graces for example conversions, consolations, advice, information data orally, by telephone or Internet. It is also a training that is offered: human and spiritual and above all the permanent prayer of the Community for our compatriots, especially those who live in the foreigner and are in a situation of a denger of moving away from these three values in the previous chapter: God, Honor, Fatherland and losing these three magnificent gifts received from God: Faith, Charity and Hope. Our help with the Poland in her beloved children to tell the truth is made more by what we are than by what we do in thought, in proles or shares. The state of life of religious silkAre they priests, deacons or simply brothers by the grace of the divine vocation is fruitful not only for the Kingdom of Heaven but also for earthly history of the Fatherland and its members. I am writing this testimonial in French which prevents me from presenting more references to the activities and life of our Congregation but I put here refers to the website that I presents www.kuczaj.org If you enter the proposed sites you are already initiated about another chapter: I love France as man,the religious, the deacon and the priest. Since I'm One Hundred for one hundred Poles and one hundred percent French. The Cartesians can tell me that the account is not good. It is not a question of not calculations it is about Love that does not calculate but gives everything and gives himself as well on the level natural but even more on the level of the supernatural world. Understand whoever wants!

I like Poland as a deacon

You You may have noticed that the chapter on vocation From the deacon is the chapter on the vocation of the ptêtre. And yet one becomes a deacon first and then possibly priest and finally, in rarer cases, bishop. Three degrees of ordination of divine institution which is the sacrament of Holy Orders, one of the Seven that Christ Jesus instituted in its Church in view of its Sacred Mission in all history of the world and worldwide, sent to all nations and to all generations up to the Parousia, that is to say, until the day when Christ Jesus will return in the glory of his Father and with all the Saints of Heaven to judge the living and the dead and introduce the elect who believed in him and in his Gospel into the Kingdom of God, in the Kingdom of Heaven! Why these chapters have been reversed? Many priests forget that they are still deacons. They wanted so much access to the priesthood only after arrival In the end they think only of what they have received Last but not least, it aspires to go even further, it is to become bishops. After the Council of Vatican II the Church has reconnected with her hostory of the beginnings and had decided to admit to the Diaconate married men and also single men who would stop there; they are called Deacons Permanent. They are more and more numerous but their condition theological is always in a position to be specified in the light of the Holy Scriptures, of the Tradition and Magisterium of the Catholic Church since it is necessary to adapt the Letters of the Missions which are given by the Ordinary Bishops to whom they are directly subject to the various situations in the world of them even and their wives in the case of married men and their children; The priority for these married deacons amounts to dedicating oneself to their Families and in The space of the possible they can be useful, if we can To say so, in the explicit mission of the Church and in her Liturgy; the Liturgy of the Present Time is their participation the strongest at that. Why do priests have this tendency to forget their diaconal state? Without judging person (who are you to judge your brother? warns St Paul), I admit myself to forget it too, I think that it comes from the need for prestige. The Apostles discussed among themselves who were the greatest among them and Jesus responded by offering them a scene with a grandchild. If you don't become like that child... etc. Obviously that the feeling of prestige does not suit the mind that Jesus spoke about the Son of man who did not come to be served but to serve. Be in service clothes and with lights on... In True all the part of life of priests, with the exception to celebrate Holy Mass and welcome sinners repented for the Sacrament of Forgiveness is Diakonia. We see each other refers to Jesus the Servant in the Diaconate and to Jesus "giving his life as a ransom for the multitude" in the priesthood. That's right. For this which is of the "Episcopate" is the College of the Bishops who succeeds the College of the Apostles from the time of Jesus until the last day of the resurrection promised by Him. Love Poland like a deacon presented its present history to the Majesty Divine and presented the Divine Majesty to the Polish so that they can worship him as he should. Deacon pclaims the Gospel and gives the explanation by The homily at the celebration and by exchanges everywhere else in the image and the example of Jean-Baptist the Predecessor of the Christ: Deacon is a predecessor of Christ who comes into his Easter Mystery sometimes until martyrdom bloody like Stephen or John the Baptist precisely who for morality of the Gospel he proclaimed and defended was murdered. The diaconate service is often discreet and on the run in situations not foreseen but arranged by the Divine Providence. It is enough to be available and open to meeting and going out on the periphery of the Church institutional; seek to offer to people of all the cathegory and all the beliefs to know The Holy Trinity and its Plan of Salvation for all. It is not not as the Acts of the Apostles shows a strategy rational but obedience to the Action of the Holy Spirit who blows where He wants and when He wants because He knows human hearts and prepares them in advance to welcome the Word and the gift of salvation that God offers everyone the auspicious times He chooses according to his Providence: Thank you Lord for making me a Deacon and helping me to accomlet this Mission!

In As a priest I love everyone

My vocation to the priesthood has reached its culmination In the priestly ordination that was granted to me conferred on 31 May 1978 at the Cathedral of Poznań by Monsignor Marian Przykucki at the request of the Rector of the Seminary of the Society of Christ, the Father Bogusław Nadolski. It is the Rector, too, who came to my Mass of First Fruits on the following June 13th is preached. This unforgettable party organized by my Family and my original parish engraved In my young heart a great mark of emotion and joy. My mother was sick that day It is my godmother who replaces her at the celebration. At home the party next door of the kitchen and table service was conducted by Mrs. Magdalena Zwolinska from the nearby village Skrudzina. So I am became a priest of Jesus Christ for eternity and I'm happy to be since thirty-six years; It happened very quickly that time of 36 years. Three and a half years in Poland and the rest in France. The essence of my life as a priest is the sacrifice of the Holy Mass and the reception of sinners to grant them absolution from sins in the name of Jesus and his Church. Yes I am a Representative calified by the divine choice of this Aliance between Christ Jesus and the Church He builds on the Faith of Stone. This grace of faith is granted to him by the Eternal Father who reveals Jesus to him as his Only Begotten Son and the Messiah sent to save the world from His sins by offering his life as a ransom for the Multitude, in his own words. Resurrected Jeus Actualizes this offering of himself with a sacramental way through the service of its priests that He did once and for all in a way bloody on the Cross at Calvary. Here it is not at all of the natural world that it is, but of the supernatural world. Being admitted to this new and completely supernatural world where "neither the eye, nor the ear, nor even The human heart has no access in a version earthly and natural only pure faith can operate and the Holy Spirit works on this basis so that a Last day the beginnings turns into a full realization and it will be the extraordinary divine work who will participate in the eornity of God. The surprise will be total for all because there is no God who knows this in advance. The Mass celebrations are the only way for God to Foreshadow this new and indestructible world. Every Saint Mass "worth gold" could we say to cause of the sans of Christ verse and because of the body of Christ delivered. The truth discovered thanks to the state to be a priest of Jesus Christ is that it is not we who loved God but it was God who first loved us and sent his Son so that by coying in Him we can be saved. It is no longer a question of loving Poland, France or even all of humanity; That's the question to be an instrument in the hands of God the Savior for may salvation come to be known and welcomed by all if possible. Between the Mystery of Jesus' historical Passion Christ and the Holy Mass celebrated by day in day there is ontological connivance since it is God who offers himself to God for the remission of sins of the multitude of poor sinners throughout the the story from Adam and Eve to the last for whom the Kingdom of God will open. Yes, the most important time important in my priest's day is that one when I celebrate Holy Mass. He this mystery of faith is great. I thank the Lord for having wanted me so close to Him in those moments when He loved me and had given himself up for me- as St. Paul the Apostle writes. God and Man goes through the birth pangs of the new humanity and He first associates His Blessed Mother with this Childbirth: Behold your Son, this is your Mother. The Mother of God until that moment and the Mother of The new humanity from this time of the Passion of the Pièta. She is present at each celebration of Mass; I know that and I want to greet her regularly at every Mass. What happens at the Holy Eucharist is beyond me completely; only I try to celebrate it worthily and respectfully by asking the Holy Spirit to to seize me so that my priestly service may please God! I thank the Lord for all the moments and for all the where I could do it: in Poland and France; Morocco; in Greece; Portugal; Italy; in Earth Saint in Germany; and wherever I lived or went in time of service or in time of vacation. Now it is to Bordeaux and in two weeks, if the Lord will allow it in Poland to new in my parish of origin where it all began thirty-six years ago.

I like France as man, Christian, religious, the deacon and the priest

I was All this when I knew the France for the First time as I have already said in The chapter: "France, I love you!" I was the mature man, the assertive Christian and confirmed, the religious well aware of being member of a body united by the common charism; And then I was Deacon and priest with a "running-in" experience on the field of the Lord's vineyard able to enter a short story

"Adventure spiritual". And it had to happen in this country of France that seduced me for the first time thanks to to Our Lady of Lourdes who revealed herself there like the Immaculate Conception. The Blessed Virgin loves the France and she will teach me to love her as well as that man, as the Christian, as the religious, as the deacon and the priest. You with noticed that I had put articles everywhere and that I put them defined. Yes, I was thirty years old when I landed at Orly coming from Warsaw; it was in Paris that I spent my First day and my first night. At my Brother Władysław Szynakiewicz, my colleague but not the father. He was neither a deacon nor a priest; he was the religious of the Society of Christ and of the first generation, of one of the First battalions. Yes this word makes us think of the army and military art. And we are not mistaken in the thinking on condition that one thinks of spiritual warfare and with spiritual weapons. Brother Władysław lived in the position in France fifty years. He was the Secretary of the Polish Catholic Mission in France, the oldest of all Foreign Missions Catholics since its foundation dates back to the thirties of the XIX- th century. The Superior of the Province French, Father Wacław Bytniewski informed me that my pastoral internship in France will begin in Aulnay-sous-Bois where the parish priest is Father Leszek Fara. I have took the Metro to get there for the first time times I traveled by metro and commuter train titled B. Aulnay-sous-Bois and Blac-Mesnil, the places of First celebrations of the Holy Mass during this short internship, once arrived in France. My dear France, love at first sight has not ceased to put us in mutual knowledge. I only found that what I have learned in Poland from French still required a lot of work mainly on the side of speaking in a loud voice, and learn new words and know how to pronounce them well. During this few months in Aulnay-sous-Bois I wanted to enjoy opportunity to be very close to Paris and do studies on Alliance Français but the Curé said to me: What you already know is enough for you, you have not No need for that. Well, okay I'll do this according to my means of board and I hope it will go. I thank God for giving me at the Lycée the possibility of being a student of Mrs. Anna Hasko The teacher of exceptional French. She knew us learn to read, write, well pronounce, and especially to love not only French but also France; I remember: She brought records and made us listen e.g. "In the fields Elisha" or "Fall snow, you will not come tonight" and for to begin was: "Brother James, brother James, are you sleeping?" I had in Poland the little fiat, an F 126 car inherited from Father Zenon Broniarczyk and I left it to my successor in Suchań. In Szczecin, I didn't need it. But Here, in France, it is necessary. My colleague from the same battalion 36, and comrade in high school and the same bench, the one through whom the information came to me and the Lord's call to join the Society su. Christ, was not sent outside of Poland for the driving licence cause; he got it Hardly for the motorcycle, but not for the car. The parish priest of the Mission in Aulnay, Father Leszek Fara had put in agreement with the Superior and bought me the new car Peugot 107, and the Parishioners - a Polish woman married to a Frenchman Carabeuf who held a Driving school helped me to know how to drive in France, especially on the Autouroute which in Poland did not exist Not at the time. So I made a first travel from France to Poland for holidays in Peugot a few 1800 kilometers. So that was in July 1982. Before leaving I learned that after the return I will go to Roubaix in the North to continue my internship pastoral there with the parish priest, Father Zdzisław Król and his cooperator, Father Jan Bojda.

Church In France, how are you?

One pastoral internship for me in France resumed in Roubaix. It was the provisions of the French Episcopate that every priest coming to work in France first did a pastoral internship for at least one year. The Diocese of Lille was the first Diocesan Church in France that gave me welcomes officially in France. Once religious I was incardinated in my Congregation submitted directly to the Pope, under pontifical right. Once ordained deacon and Then priest I began to be part of of the Clergy, and whenever the Congregation wants send me somewhere to accomplish my mission is to the Bishop of the Diocese of the place that grants me the powers to exercise my ministry as a deacon and as a Catholic priest. The time spent at Aulnay was to get used to the news realities as the religious and now it is officially that I am enrolled in the presbiterium of the Church who is in Lille under the Pastorate of his Bishop, Monsignor Jean Vilnet. I started my ministry in August 1982 in Roubaix and Lile since these two places were places of celebration of the Holy Mass. In Roubaix, it was at the church newly built by the Poles and their parish priest for commemorating the millennium of the Baptism of Poland in 966. The consecration of the Church of Our Lady of Częstochowa in Roubaix took place in June 1972 by Monsignor Szczepan Wesoły came from Rome who was the Delegate of the Primate of Poland for the Pastoral Care of Emigrants Polish worldwide. In Lille it was a chapel adjoining the Church of Saint Etienne street military. The parish feast of August 26, 1982 was connected with a major demonstration of Poles against the state of war in Poland triggered nine months before by General Jaruselski. What made me marked in Roubaix is this opposition to the system brought to Poland by the employees of the Soviet coming after the Red Army which said to bring freedom. I had lived Personally thirty years under this regime and here I immediately took part in this opposition. But there was Apparently a problem! I arrived in France Just weeks after the events of 13 December 1981 and the Region from which The strikes began in 1980. We were suspicious of me: Is he not a spy and collaborator of the regime, since he came so easily from there and he even made a holiday trip without any problems in his Country natal. One day there was a welcome from a family who was first interned on 13 December 1981 and then expulated from Poland to church from Roubaix they were greeted with honors and bouquets of flowers; If memory serves, this family was called Zając. Some time unmasked she had to take refuge in the Polish Consulate in Lille rue Carnot, before the anger of the Solidarność. One was linked with the Polish Parish; the other was areligious and did not want to depend on the Church. Solidarność of Catholic obedience made A lot of effort to send humanitarian aid to Poland by parish structures under responsibility of the Poonese Episcopate who negotiated this with the Jaruselski's War Komitet. What a job! I have seen it from my eyes daily; Humanitarian aid of course, but we suspected that the ink sent was not Not for little schoolchildren. Solidarity in Poland had above all, the need to communicate with civil society. The Egliwas staying true to continue always to offer everyone the space of freedom both spiritual and cultural if it were not more. The martyrdom of Father Popieluszko is "an icberg". The other Solidarność in Roubaix was the good people but some were not believers and there are had in it the French who did not understand that the priests could be so "politicized." Young people of Polish origin but having completed the studies: doctors, lawyers, municipal councillors, etc. was I do not agree that in the Church we can talk about the politics. Neither do I. But when I said it the Suspicions of being a spy of the regime sniffed. And when I once said that we have to do the catechism not only in Polish but also in French people were starting to tell me that I should leave!

Dunkirk Here I am!

The Superior on the occasion of the Feast of Saint Casimir 1986, on March 4, informs me that I am transferred to Dunkirk! I have to go and take charge of the Polish Mission at the faster, because the current parish priest, Father Jerzy Chorzempa will have to go to Morocco for Easter next in place of Father Edmond Wojda who will go to Iraq, because there the father on the 31st Last December Father Stanisław Ułaszkiewicz died in circumstances not yet explained. So this is how Divine Providence and the Superiors of the Congregation had the priests moved at the international level and I am committed to it also as the only priest in charge of the Polish Mission in Dunkirk and all of French Flanders. It was for my case a displacement within the same Diocese, that of Lille and before Holy Week by The A25 motorway j I settle at 101, rue Gaspard Neuts not far from the North Sea, in this beautiful rebuilt city after the damage caused during the second World war. A house with a chapel inside but no parking for the car; there will then be to undergo several burglaries. Can you always keep your car in the street even if it was right in front of the house? At a Polish woman and widow Mrs. Władysława Dzięcioł I find The welcome as in his time and in the country stranger the prophet Elijah; I am regularly fed and that for free. She is from Częstochowa in Poland from where she had come with her husband Stanisław works on nearby farms; It was a long time ago; she is a widow and their child did not survive a serious illness no more. This only son - she told me - was a child of heart in this parish where she lived Right now. One day he returned from the service of the Mass and he said: Mother, mother, the parish priest put the Saints in prison! How? What are you saying? That's right, Mom! And he tells that coming to church in the morning with other altar servers they saw each other that there were no more statues or saints Images at the church. After Mass one of them dared to ask the question about it to the parish priest. So he had led them to a cellar in the presbytery and showed them behind the grids the Saints who before the Second Vatican Council had their place inside the church. This true story that I follow very well made me write the title of the previous chapter: The Church From France, who are you? My love for France comes true more easily curiously than my love for the Church which is in France. And that until today! How this Is it possible? I wonder that too. Recently someone important in the Church wrote to my Superior: "Father Casimir Kuczaj is very unsuited to French pastoral realities. His parish priest could not entrust him with other missions to Cause of his misunderstanding of mentalities French. I hope you can find a place more adapted to his personality... I think that he does not realize his inadequacy well" (the letter is dated April 8, 2014). And here's what he replied my Superior, Father Jan Ciągło: "Personally, I am very surprised by your observation. I have known Father KUCZAJ for thirty-two Years; As you know, he did his philosophical studies and theological studies in Poland, studies of which he is holds a master's degree. He returned to Societas Christi - approved religious congregation by the Vatican

- To realize the priestly vocation enver emigrants Polish worldwide. It carries out this mission among Polish emigrants who have been France for thirty-two years, not hesitating to work with the Church local (as for example in Le Creusot or Abscon, Escaudain, Dunkirk, Roubaix...) As you point out, Father KUCZAJ has always shown fratrnity towards his confreres, but also openness towards everyone, integration (French citizen, he masters perfectly the language of Molière) and a commitment sincere and profound in his priestly mission. It's For this reason I am quite appalled by the terms "very unfit for realities French pastorals" and "misunderstanding of French mentalities": on what facts do you Rely on formulating these opinions, which with this degree Do they seem shocking or even discrisive to me? It is a A situation that upsets me because a person is judged to cause of his personality, his culture of origin and his spirituality. I disagree with the opinions that you present against the father KUCZAJ and I want to point out to you that I am not favorable to his renvie of the diocese of Bordeaux" ( The response is dated April 4, 22. I'll be back later to this case.. I'm coming back to Dunkirk!

First Experience of being the parish priest

First experience of being a parish priest; I give this title to This chapter because to have about thirty people to the Mass and to bear this great title within the Church Catholic is something paradoxical. Paradoxes do not not lacking in the Gospel; but when they are found in the Pesonnelle life is even more overwhelming! The Widow Polish experienced the pardox of being shaved alive until the Grande Vielliesse while his son Unique left this world at a very young age. But before experiencing this she was upset with her a very young child who brought from the parish church when there was not yet a Polish mission in Dunkirk this story of the Saints put in prison. We can laugh about it, Why not? But didn't Jesus warn? against scandals that could distance Him especially little ones who believe in Him? I don't want to go to trial in the Church of France, its history is different from other countries in Europe and elsewhere! But when same! Pope John Paul II on his first trip Apostolic in France in 1980 had he not posed this Question: France, eldest daughter of the Church whom Do you do with your baptism? Isn't talking like this speak above all to the Church that is in France? Probably not to the Republic which wants to be complete. lay! Except that here again it will be said that John Paul II was unsuited to French mentalities. Yes it's true, what shocked me in the diocese of Lille, the priests said to me: Oh, your Pope, he wants to be a prophet! And when the affair of Monsignor Gaillot has broken out Many of them supported this clerical rebel. I was in the team where there was the two worker priests; nice confreres but when a day sitting around a table without any priestly they all began the Liturgy Eucharistic in Grande Synthe, I left and before I I told them: why do you not respect the instructions of the Church in this area? The dean replied that the habit does not make the monk! The Saints in prison, the habit does not make the monk, and so many other explanations found and within reach but where was then their heart? Vocations are lacking but paradoxically I could not find A lot of ecclesiastic to worry about it. Some said: There were so many of us between the two wars. that it had to be reduced. Polish priests sent to France for Nord-Pas-de-Calais remembered that they too were told: You have come here What for? Eat our bread? So, we said that not only to Polish miners who did not want to associate to strikes at the call of the CGT, we also said that to Polish Catholic priests! You can read at this subject of Mr. Gabriel Garçon's study on My site page:HTTp://casimir.kuczaj.free.fr/Mission/racines.htm The paradox that made me Surprised the most is that the Republic Laique Française had welcomed me more easily than the Church in France; And yet I expected that this would be the opposite. It is in Dunkirk that I am became a French citizen once I resided in France for five years and I was applying to have both nationality: to remain Polish and become French! We did not raise questions of mentalities French or inadaptation to realities French and it was Already there is almost thirty years. So that the Head of the Church Advance these arguments against me in 2014 there is something to be amazed! The Catholic Church means Universal, therefore the One who gathers the scattered children of God whatever their origin, social status, race, language, mentality, etc. This is even more so when it comes to the religious, Deacons and priests, otherwise where do we want to go, who do we want To serve, what Gospel do we want to proclaim to the whole world? We cannot not serving two masters Jesus told us well Christ our Lord! I have already been told: You do not does not want to understand! But understand what in truth? What we are not in the same Church? Then it would be gratifying Monsieur or Monsignor! Think a little and go see that the raaison itself is on my side. It does not me please not everything that the Republic does but in this field of respect for the liberation of conscience, it has yet to learn this Church of France!

I am one hundred percent Frenchman

To love someone is to tame him as he had. says the Little Prince of Saint Exupéry. And maybe even to adopt it and to have each other adopted. Taken in 1980 By falling in love with the France, I here is French by decree signed by Hervé Brehier of 29 June 1990 published in the Official Journal of 01 July 1990. The priest and French but the priests French did not see it that way. They continued to call me a Polish priest since I worked for the Polish. But the Church has no nationalityality being catholic that is to say universal: Go worldwide; teach all nations; and teach them to keep all my commendemends; and I am with you all the days until the end of time; and those who believe baptize them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost! This is the Gospel I had learned. Is it Is there another? That I don't know? Saint Paul has already answered this question by writing to the Galatians! Then the Gaul should know! Yes, I already have it writes it like this: As a Frenchman, I am angry; as a Pole, I am overwhelmed; As a Christian, I am outraged; as a religious priest, I see Christ Jesus to be thrown into me! And so that's why, I decided to write all this on the Blog SCM staff. You who read me or will read me, listen to me, it is a fight for Christ and for the truth! I know that You believe me or later maybe you will believe me. Pray for me and for the France I love and for the Church in France that I love too! Being in Dunkirk I had in even the responsibility to be Vice-Provincial of the Society of Christ for six years. In as long as such I had a mission to do in Morocco: to go see my Confrere. It was no longer my predecessor of Dunkirk; he was already gone from there to Iraq; and the other father Andrzej Góźdź had replaced him there. This mission was delicate as it happens to the Manager to have take small or big problems with those who sound to them entrusted by the Congregation. In the end this father Andrzej will have left our Community by making himself incardinated in the Diocese of Toulon-Fréjus, working a few years earlier in Rouvroy in the Region of Pas-de-Calais. I discovered a Country Muslims, Morocco with its capital Rabat and the Great Mosque of Cassablanca. So I touched another with my feet continent than Europe for the first time! No, I trunk! How could I have forgotten! It was Asia which had first dazzled my eyes and my heart before this trip to Africa. I was still at Roubaix-Lille. With the previous Superior that the one from now who had sent me to Dunkirk, Father Wacław Bytniewski and two other confreres: Father Henryk Kulikowski and Father Zygmunt Stefański, With about thirty other people we had the joy of make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land! It was unforgettable and yet just now in chapter Previous I didn't think about it. It was like the eighth sacraments! We touched the trangled earth a thousand years ago through our Lord Jesus in Person, It was really amazing and we were touched in the heart and mind forever! Yes Lord Thank you! I come back to Morocco again. Polish women who naively thought that one could remain Catholic and marry a Muslim. Yes it was possible and feasible before the fateful mbet; But after how many problems for come to Mass and to baptize their children. The Muslim signed everything you want but what next? It is a Another chossette handle. It may not be very Well said in French but any it is Life, often broken, I pass you all the rest. I return to Dunkirk and at the expense of the parish priest. I went on holiday to see the Family and the parish priest of the Original parish: So you are the parish priest? Yes! So you have Many practitioners? About thirty in all. What? Oh yes. Before they said the priest came from Roubaix once a month and There were quite a few of us: at least a hundred! They are dead then? Yes for some, but for others they do not come not because you ask them to come every Sunday Right now. And it was better before: once a month That's enough! Look at the French they say Many Catholics and they come very rarely to The Church. Voila, my charge of the parish priest, not obvious to convince them. Some simply said; I am believers but not practice. Like the perochets they imitated their neighbors!

Our Lady of Dunes and the Queen of Poland

The Blessed Virgin Mary was with me in Dunkirk! The chapel where Poles had their monthly Mass before that we install a permanent parish priest was that of the Dunkirk sailors under the name of Notre-Dame de Dune! And the news inside the House Parish was dedicated to Our Lady, the Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen of Poland whose Feast Day was May 3rd of each year in Commemoration of the Vows of the King Jan Kazimierz of Poland (John Casimir) of 1 April 1656, that the Pope Pius XI approved in 1924 and Pope John XXIII officially proclaimed for the knowledge of the whole Church Catholic. The Blessed Virgin Mary is the Queen of Poland and her Patroness Celeste with two co-patrons and martyrs, the Bishops: Wojciech(Adalbert)Archbishop of Gniezno(956-997) and Poznań and Stanisław (Stanislaus)Archbishop of Kraków (1030-1079). The Blessed Virgin Mary! It's time I told you This: Without it I would not be where I am, with all that that I have already written. I will hide in her motherly arms to invite you to draw near to Her! I do not know: is this famous parish priest of Dunkirk also put her in prison, I hope than no. But I say clearly to the Church of France: If you are someone who no longer loves this Immaculate Conception then you will no longer be the Church of his Son! What happened after that Last Council? I've read sad things about giving up of the priesthoods by many of your sons: Then become humble to new my Church that is in France and I will love you with Mary Our Lady of Lourdes with all my heart of man, of the Christian, religious, deacon and priest! All aspects of my human nature and what grace has been able to work in me in the supernatuerelle part of my being the contribution of the Blessed Virgin Mary is préponderante! God willed this and He thus wanted to have me adopted not only by the Father Eternal but also through this Virgin and Eternal Mother! My celibacy and my chastity I owe him, I am convinced. I am very grateful to him and I am among those who will always call her blessed among all women! Obviously She received everything herself from kindness of the Creator but she does not stop saying these Thanks to all who invoke him: Hail Mary! In Dunkirk for the first time in my life of religious and diaco-priest I was alone, I lived alone. But at the same time not at all! I lived under the same roof as the Lord in the Saint Tabernacle who was in the chapel of his Mother and of our Mother; and therefore She too was there! No, I wasn't alone! And then once a month I went celebrate Mass in Boulogne-sur-Mer. Our Lady of Boulogne is also known and that of Saint-Omer. And then I had friends in Goderswelde right next to the Mont-des-Cats and the Monastery of the Bénédictains. With my friend Raoul we exchanged a lot about the Church in France. He had a small shop where he had employed a whole Franco-Polonse family; the headmistress was Thérèse. Raoul Baert was single but her soul was very beautiful, I give testimony to say that there are some true Christians in this country which is the France; He said to me: courage and as John Paul II says, we must not be afraid. In his shop he z had 0 entrance a large statue of Our Lady of Lourdes and at the cash register one could obtain small leaves with prayers. The new Evangelization I had seen there. Raoul My friend, thank you! And then, not far away, a French Lady who held France prayers in her home at home in Bambecque. And she made plaster figurines saints; Once I received from her a nativity scene thus made with his hands. She taught me, a priest at to love the Blessed Virgin. She had a piano and she said: father Casimir play "Czarna Madonna" I like a lot this melodie and song in honor of Our Lady of Częstochowa since I visited this great Sanctuary in Poland. Yes, Franco-Polish friendship exists in True and Catholics should be the first to cross borders and tear down all the walls of the prejudices and misunderstandings. Who will do it at Our place? Let us not wait for this to happen on its own!

I returns to Roubaix as parish priest

Five years spent in Dunkirk have given me a lot brought! There was also a couple who ran the garage of Fiat who lived in Arques and still lives there. Once Peugeot 107 changed for the Fiat Tipo I took acquaintance with this couple and their activity towards travel and aid to Poland: he was French Roger and she Polish Micheline. One day she calls me: We planned to take a trip to Rome but my husband may not, because of a professional impediment to accompany us; If you want, come with us! Thank you Family Demol. Thanks to you I saw Pope John Paul II in private or almost private hearings; What a beautiful memory but for you Micheline was also a soufrance, a Sacrifice: All your papers were stolen from you by bus! There you go I wanted to say that. Again to Roger who had given me His place for free: thank you. I'm finally going to go or rather return to Roubaix. I was a vicar there and I return as parish priest in dual nationality; So I am doubly parish priest. But for some French priests Nothing to do: for them to be a Polish priest is "half the price". Speaking two languages c4is one idiocy. French is enough for them. Why not but be not so Cartesian: I think therefore I am! Once in a big one Building I price the elevator: I was dressed in a suit and I wore the Roman collar. A priest Français en soutanne joined us and started me to reproach that as a Polish priest I do not must not be ashamed to wear the cassock! Another Cartesian! What he thinks must be true. But the Lord tells us made a gift to meet and encourage each other and Not to attack us like that, just by the way. The traditionalist community? Why not, who we are to judge each other when the world is dying hunger for the Word of God. There I said what I learned at Dunkirk: the habit does not make a monk! My parish priest in Roubais when I was his vicar there he told me told that he was denounced to the Bishopric of Lille (it was before the Second Vatican Council, that he allowed himself to walk in his costume with the Roman collar and even in church that he did not always wear his cassock! He was blamed also that his socks were not always black as they had to be. Someone may think that I tells here of jokes. Well, no: word of the parish priest! For the Parish Feast on August 26, 1991 I was already in Roubaix. Passage of power, the father Jan Bojda with whom I had worked before and who was the parish priest after the Old Parish priest - who had told me this sock story - Etair returned to Poland in a well-deserved retirement; The father Jan will go to Montigny-en- Ostrevent and I will have vicars to help me carry out my Mission. It was at the time a Polish Parish with a hundred children at catechism and about thirty young people in the KSMP Association. There were also young adults who gathered like the White Agle: Orzeł Biały. There was also the Choral Hejnał conducted by a doctor of Polish origin from the Regdost family. And then the Ladies of the Rosary with as President for a long time very active for many parish things Mrs. Janina Taczała. And the Gołębiowski family to whom I perhaps owe the more; she took care of the big house next door of the church for the rental of the rooms and the power of pay all taxes and material charges of this great spiritual enterprise. He Had to think about saving the walls of the church very fragile for bad weather; they could disintegrate! Providence has meant that being Accident the friendly viity of someone who wanted me console; He agreed to do the necessary work to Half price and in the end even much less! To him this Polish and to God who watches over everything: Thank you! John Paul II had launched the preparation for the Jubilee of the Year 2000. We We are put to spiritual work with the vicar: the fathers: Misrosław Stępkowicz, Roman Szaarzyński and Jerzy Goźddziewski, and Andrzej Góźdź at the beginning before he left for Rouvroy. I have already mentioned in another chapter and just now an accident that it is to me Arrived to live with in the end the left kneecap broken. It was nine days after I launched a Catholic TOTUS TUUS Association to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the priestly ordination of Pope John Paul II November 1, 1996. Nothing useful for the mind without Sacrifice in the body! I immediately understood!

The longest concelebrated Mass in my life

Before to go to Roubaix and leave Dunkirk where the father Czesław Margas took over, and I also left him my Fiat Tipo car as a legacy, I went to Poland to participate - among others - in the World Privacy Day Youth in mid-August 1991. It was just two years after the famous fall of the Berlin Wall and after My first semi-democratic elections Poland; from all over young people came to this Meeting International Christian initiated six years earlier by Pope John Paul II in the context of the new evangelization. Many young people for the first time had been able to come to the Clear Mountain of Częstochowa the Marian national shrine where there is an icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary kept at the within the Monastery of the Pauline Fathers since 1382. John Paul II returned that same year 1991 for the Second time visiting other people in May/June cities of Poland among others Skoczów where he canonized Jean Sarkander, the martyr the vvictim of quarrels between Catholics and Hussites checks. I have went to Częstochowa and in the early morning I left Our house some three kilometers remote from the Jasna Góra and I took my seat dressed in dawn for the concelebration of the Holy Mass with the Pope. Well it was in all so long and it had to stay early that neither before nor after I Never been so tired in my life as this Day. Tired but obviously very Happy to be part of such a big event historical. Every time I come back to this Sanctuary this memory comes back to me and I thank God for giving me to live in all this epoch of passage of the one millennium to the other and from a century also to the other; It doesn't happen and not everyone Who can live these unforgettable moments as it was to me arrived. I take advantage of this memory to share the common good of us Poles which consists in having the Mother of the Christ as our Queen. How did this happen? I have already written that King Jan-Kazimierz has decided to entrust his kingdom of three nations: Poland, Lithuania and Rus, and he did so at Lwów Cathedral on 1 April 1456, to entrust its Peoples facing the national mortal danger in the face of aggression Swedish to the protection of Our Lady of Częstochowa with representatives of the Catholic Episcopate of Poland by giving her the title of Queen and making herself his servant and his subject. But at the beginning of this process Official and national there are important things to report. Here they are, historiqemet verified and on. Forty-eight years before this year in 1608 of Italy in Kracivia came on pilgrimage a Jesuit named Marcinnelli as he recounted what happened to him. He knew personally 2tqnt his spiritual adviser a Young Polish Jesuit Stanislas Kostka who during his Novitiate on the eve of the Feast of the Assumption at was recalled from this world at the age of 18 years and lived heroically his life as a young man Christian. He was soon canonized and is the Patron proclaimed by the Holy See of the Jenesse Catholic. This father Marcinnelli the man of a Great spirituality and an intense mystical life has a day of the eve of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary a vision and hear the Blessed Virgin say to him: Why don't you call me not Queen of Poland; I am. Let a stranger come say in Krakow to the representative of the Church and the Royal Governance that the Blessed Virgin calls herself ReIne of Poland in the Royal City is something. This father Jesuit Marcinnelli, word of the Jesuits, did not Lied. So his insistence on it paid off and Wear them incessantly until today! In 1946 in returning from exile through Rome to Italy and Vatican asks him to go France to Lourdes and then to Hautecombe, the Crdinal the Primate of Poland, the Archbishop of Poznan and Gniezno, summons the Polish Episcopate and the People in Częstochowa to renew these Vows of loyalty to the Queen of Poland. In 1956 four hundred years later this Royal Act, lib2r2 of his internment by the government Polish comunist CardinStefan Wyszyński once again makes the Same allevice with more than a million people present on PLCE and this is reflected in all the parishes of the country. We understand why John Paul II qvqit said after his papal election: He does not there would be no Poonese Pope on the See of St. Peter if he There was no such Primate of Poland who bet everything on the Blessed Virgin Mary Queen of Poland!

Seven Years in Roubaix and Lille

In going to Roubaix I had seven years. I don't I didn't know in advance, but the Lord knew. Two place of celebrations, one of the vicars, the father Mirosław Stępkowicz desperately wanted to learn French and live alone at the Maison de Combattents in Lille and ensure permanence. Young and alone, I I did not agree too much but he got him to be thus. I knew soon it was a mistake for yielding to his revandications. The Combattents rented one of the rooms next to that of the Father Mirosław to a young Polish student and The devil had meddled in matters and a few tełps later Father Mirosław was doubly father not only spiritually and in consequence left the priesthood. Three vicars and an idea that the parish priest should not have all power and especially not Manage the fund alone, the vicars voted according to democracy: Three against one and lo and behold. had to accept that one of the vicars yours, this fund commune! We sometimes frustrated the financial disaster; since in addition the Religious of the Sacred Heart asked to be paid not just the monthly salary but also social security! The sacristine and The organist ensemble the nun insisted so much with his Superior that I acceded but it was Not a good choice either. My successor Father Antoni Ptaszkowski terminated the contract and the organist had been among the less expensive parishioners; There were even three of them. I admit that after This experience is better to be a parish priest without vicar and do not refer to democracy as if the parish resembled some association; the Demonocracy is coming at a gallop! The old house and rentals of the rooms managed by the Gołębiowskis saved Parish finances but leaks in the roof and the company who does not accomplish his decimal garnty well here I am in court with him and it drags on once you finds itself having to send the formal notices and acknowledgement of receipt. The lawyer asks you to pay in advance and you are caught at the turn almost at the bank. In addition when you with thieves who steal your money and papers and just after it's the accident of the broken kneecap and you have for a year of care or you take like a little child to walk! But this winter in addition in 1996 and Your heating system that drops and the house is flooded base; and you can't do it anymore. praise...! Well, I had suffered from this gift of being finally parish priest not for thirty people as in Dunkirk but for three hundred. It z has the price to everything and I have it learnt. The vicar who held the cash register wanted in this situation complicated having a new car; we make an impression and we satisfied his demands, he went on holiday and then pouff, the Car is scrapped. Fortunately he has nothing Uh, he comes back safe and sound. But did he learn anything? The Father Jerzy Goździewicz alone could answer. T Father Roman also wanted to have a lot of autonomy; I was too young for him to be a parish priest with three vicars. And here I think he was right. But everything I say here, even if it is true, does not does not give the exact pastoral balance sheet of these seven-year times; There are had quite a spiritual work; catechesis and otherwise normal liturgical activities. We were approaching Tertio Millenio; Pope John Paul II's program set in motion; The Year of Christ, the Year of the Holy Spirit and the Year of the Father and had to give thanks to the Saint in the year 2000 Trinity. In the Year of the Holy Spirit on new Provincial Superior Father Ryszard Oblizajek informs me that I will go to Le Creusot. Okay I will leave to replace Father Jan Ciaglo... And I will learn more for my experience human, religious, diacono-priestly and spiritual. During my service and pastoral work in Roubaix it happened to me Something I think is good for you share.

The Association Catholic TOTUS TUUS

During holidays in Poland in July 1996 and after returning to Poland August The idea of doing something special and spiritual as one makes a stele or a monument to me. crossing. I thought: Why not? We're already building here and there the statues in honor of John Paul II for History So what to do? Founding an Association under the title of his episcopal devisation: Totus Tuus! I speak around me and in the parish; about fifteen No one is up for it so we do it; On August 6, founding declaration and I seek to compose the Statutes and then we will start the 50-year anniversary of its Sacerotale ordination. I order the Banner to make Poland; and I find Father Michał Kamiński of the House General in Poznań for form and content. Totus Tuus. Deus tu es Pater noster. Virgo tu es Mater nostra. Vestris sumus in Jezu Christo. Per gratiam Spiritus Sancti. Colour yellow/papal and blue/Marian. The white cross on one side signifying the Eucharist and the PX sign of the other meaning peace. The Bishop of Lille Jean Vilnet and requested to prove it and the Holy Father John Paul II is asked to bless her! It all happened done as desired and the Association Started. It was necessary for Providence to add To this project some personal sacrifices and I give thanks to God for this. But I also thank the Sinte Vierge because that she wanted me on this occasion to give a sign Onsolateur. And it went like this: I was reading an interesting book about his appearances everywhere. in the world and at the time of finishing it to read and closing a phone call pops up: It was my friend Raoul near Dunkirk. Listen to Csimir! There are has a group of pilgrims to Medjugorje from here who has a small problem. The Benedictine monk who had to accompany them cannot. Could you do? I have been hearing for some time that the Saint Virgin Mary Queen of Peace attracts to this Village of Bosnia and Herzegovina crowds of partour people they come to listen its messages delivered through six Young Clairvoyant, I thought I would go one day, but to have a such a proposal in the circumstances described above, with the promise of Pope John Paul II that he would pray for the Association during its apostolic journey to Frence in next October (1996) on the tomb of Sqint Luis Grignont de Monfort, the author of "True Devotion to the Saint Virgin Mary" who inspired the priest Karol Wojtyła for his episcopal motto when at age of 38 the Pope calls him to the Episcopate; All this upset me and I asked my Provincial to be able to go to Medjugorje by accompanying this group of Catholics from the French Frandre. I got it received and I replied to Raoul that he can inform this group of my positive response. The Church still studies these phenomena today. in Medjugorje and the problem is that it does not does not stop so that it can decide definitively. As a man I give my testimony and as a "Christian, religious, deacon and priest" I refer to the judgment of the Church when it will intervene. Among the participants of this trip was a man that his wife convinced to go with her only to accompany him

"touristically"; and this man had to lodge in the same room as me; Seeing my Roman collar he panicked: they made me stay with a priest! Sir, do not be afraid, I am the man Like you, you risk nothing; But you will tell me about the religion! Sir, listen to me: I promise not to Talk with you about that, about CCord? Three days later, He was the one who wanted to ask me about these Topics; I saw him changing before my eyes; No Sir, go to the other priests will listen to you; I will hold My promise and my word that I gave you! In this same period "Seven

years in Roubaix" I had a joy, thanks to the generosity of a parishioner Helena Kamińska to make two great Pilgrimages: to Our Lady of Fatimaa in Portugal and in the footsteps of St. Paul Apostle in Greece. Thank you Helena, the Polish for this and for other things! Do you see? The tests that I described in the previous chapter are perfectly balanced by consolations and the joys that Divine Providence knew and willed to offer me and I thank Him for everything!

The Pilgrimages have brought me a lot

I considers that all my travels are pilgrimages and even all my life I live it as a pilgrimage permanent. And I know that this vision of things corresponds to perfectly to what teaches us the Holy Scriptures. But here I would like to come back in a small summary on the five major trips of my life: to the Holy Land, to Greece, in Italy, Portugal and Lourdes in France. From Częstochowa I have already said quite a few and of Medjugorje I am held to reserve. For Morocco it was a Tourist trip: let's put it this way. I am happy to walk in the footsteps of Christ Jesus as phisically as spiritually. The world of the Bible and movies about the Bible are my apostilic priority; You can see it on my website of the Internet for example: http://casimir.kuczaj.free.fr/ Since

that unforgettable moment of this most important pilgrimage In my life nothing is the same as before! The footsteps of Saint Paul! That Do you want? His fourteen books out of twenty-seven of the New Testament proves if there was a need that we can't do it to pass from Saint Paul if we want to evangelize again today! I will mention only my discovery ecumenical. The Lady Guide at a certain moment began To say that Catholic baptism by sprinkling was not not at the same level as Orthodox baptism by immersion; There were several French priests only (I already had dual nationality) And none had reacted to these offensive remarks: I said: Madam what you say is hurtful to the Catholics that we are, never repeat again this sentence does not respect the Church of Rome! The visit in the Hill of Five Monastery such a discovery at the counter of ecumenism: the Bishop Orthodox was in canonical visitation of one of these Monastery and we met him; He gave us spoke kindly and then at the end of the meeting a Priests of our pilgrimage asked for it to give us His blessing; What was my surprised when he said: No, I can't, we must first may your Pope of Rome come on his knees to ask forgiveness for this that the Catholics had done to the Orthodox. I said: Still a long road to Christian unity if That's how they think the Orthodox Greeks. I saw in Athens the tremor of earth; Rest assured nothing so grâve but when in the night I had the impression by revealing myself of hover I went down and the other people too taking the elevator or the stairs - I don't remember well- I had spent three hours outside of a large and high hotel. For Italy: I have already mentioned Rome and the Pope; I would like to add Assisi and the encounter with this symbolic Place for the dialogue between relocations since a gesture of John Paul II in October 1986. The Second Vatican Council made an overture in this sense And why not? But never at the cost of "sacrificing the Very Holy Trinity: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Cartesian or "traditionalist" minds monoteîstes" will say that the account is not good; but it is enough not to want to put oneself the One God under the powers of his own little reason and to accept trust him in As He had revealed in Jesus Christ so that the Interreligious dialogue be maintained! And finally the Marian question: through Fatima and Lourdes. In time distance of two centuries of so-called "modern" times and others would say "modernists" from the top of Heaven there was at the minus these two majers signs for the Church and for Humanity whole. What has been done with it? Pope Paul VI in Seeing that to widen the paths of "luck" ecumenical" Trends are being created for moving the Blessed Virgin somewhere where She could less Disturbing the Protestants has risen to the niche and delivered the speech on "the Marialis cultus" and proclaimed the Blessed Virgin publicly as "Mother of the Church". He "saved the furniture" as they say. But the "modernist" trend continues. and we would like to prevent Heaven from expressing itself also in our time. It is still believed that the Holy Spirit spoke by the prophets, but may the Mother of the Redeemer be sent in recent times as a Prophetess it is hard to believe. I am speaking in general seeing how the love of Christians diminishes and cools to this Beautiful Lady. It is still called Notre Dame but She wanted to say to Lourdes and Fatima: I am your Mother by the will of the Holy Trinity!

I discover that I have an older Sister

The new evangelization and the TOTUS Association TUUS as the instrument for this launched at Roubaix began to worry the opponent i.e. the devil! Oh no I don't see the devil everywhere but sometimes I know his manipulation by interposed human weaknesses. All Saturdays qvec the Statue of Our Lady of Fatima celebrations for the conversion of the world beginning with our Parish in Roubaix and Lille caused a stir and in May(13 May Feast of ND of Fatima) the Superior the Father Ryszard Oblizajek comes to tell me that parishioners are not happy and I must be transferred to Le Creusot! All right No problem! But I already know "the trademark of my opponent": he operates by a clandestine and by pressure on coscience: that of the Superior and mine too. But as a religious I am Let move even at the end of the world! I say goodbye at the Parish of Our Lady of Częstochowa in Roubaix Grande Rue and at the Polish Chapel of Saint Etienne street Military Hospital in Lille and I move to go to Le Creusot near Challons-sur-Saône and Lyon. I didn't really know about Sister Faustina, who was beatified on the Sunday after Easter in 1993 and I did not yet know his Little Journal or the Messages concerning Divine Mercy even if in my Parish originally in Gołkowice in Poland this Icon-Image with the lyrics: Jezu, ufam Tobie! (Jesus, I have trust in You!) had been challenging me for a long time. But the Lord took the time to reveal to me that I had a Big Sister in Heaven and it was the Saint Faustina! I won't find out until the day of his Canonization in April of the Holy Year 2000 to the opening of the Third Millennium! But first We had to continue to have trials and do A lot of sacrifices. I discovered it on the spot in arriving at Le Creusont and beginning my ministry priestly. My predecessor, Father Jan Ciągło had I'm going through things worse than I did, and I know he was holding good because we come from the Region and the Country that was subjected to oppression of all kinds. As I have Already mentioned in the chapters on love of Poland inked in us. This parish has been entrusted to our Congregation in a situation of conflict; the former parish priest did not want to leave Father Józef Nowacki religious but disobedient and the new From the beginning, the parish priest had to deal with a divided Community. Father Jan was one of them. very upset and with his human sensitivity and spiritual he asked the Provincial to be freed from it. So it was now up to me to move on to the Crucible (interesting pun)! But, unlike What you might think the opponent was waiting for me rather on the French side more than on the side Polish parish. I said to myself: I am appointed to Monchanin as parish priest in solidum (for the French) I wanted to take initiatives to launch a new evangelization and this displeased the Clergy. Always the same song: You're still a Polish; you don't have to deal with the Polish way; one is in France common sense! I sent to the Bishop d'Autun a File on my projects for the passage of a Millennium to the other by writing that this doesn't happen often and... it was decided that the Year Holy I would not live her whole there. I had According to some priests was wrong to insist: "French priests don't like unwelcome". My insistence was on the Internet: requested permission to use it oEffectively for this new evangelization and I have proposed the Site: DOMINUS VOBISCUM! Is it Latin that has them more reverberated or my insistence; No one has me Nothing said. They wrote to my Provincial: We must Take it off and then that's how it is! The vice-provincial, my predecessor at Le Creusot informed me of that by phone and it was in the week after the Sunday of the Canonization of the Saint Faustina. This is how God revealed me that I had a Big Sister in Heaven. A Frenchwoman after having participated with his Family in Rome this Sunday made me called after and invited me to their Table to tell me about it: I listened to his Testimonial and his reflections already thinking than to Abscon in the North where I should return this This would be my pastoral priority; What I was doing during ten years before being sent here to Bordeaux!

"Dominus Vobiscum" a website to evangelize

If I was polishing the Polish version of these memories of my Vocation to love there would be more to say because my pastoral work was primarily for Polish Catholics and a lot was going on in this area, which I am dealing with here only partially, so as not to Clutter readers of the French language. I was committed to my priestly ministry at Le Creusot and at Le Creusot. Monchanin serenely despite this problem of a Concurrent religious priest who continued to live in the Polish House and be supported by the elders collaborators and a Polish association that thought this good common built with the money of the Poles transmit to the final neither to the Polish Catholic Mission in France nor to our Congregation but at the Restorants du Coeur du monsieur Coluche! I thought to myself what drift of democracy or It only takes one vote and 49.9 percent can do nothing in This case: If we introduced this kind of democracy in the Church, which fortunately is hierarchical, and she already has A lot of problems elsewhere, but with so-called democracy We would be sure to have the voice of perdition! Free time if you can to say thus to Le Creusot it was the creation of the Site of the Internet that always works within my means of a amateur and apprentice. I am progressing slowly but I I am interested in the creation of Nouvauté. This blog where We are now - I who write and you who read is the Last discovery and you see that it walk and I even know how much you are to me read. For this site I'm talking about and which has begun to exist in the Holy Year 2000 www.kucz aj.org there is

all What you want and if you prefer to listen to an appointment you on the mission page http://casimir.kuczaj.free.fr/Mission/mcp.htm The prayer offered by members of the TOTUS TUUS Association is used to apply the Holy Spirit to take care of the rest. Readers and auditors will only be docile to Him and the Salvation will come to dwell in their hearts and souls for glory of God. Nothing is perfect but perfection is the domain of God alone! A lot of things boil down to know God and the One He sent Jesus Christ. On this site you can go to the page of The Apostleship of the Divine

Mercy And you are at the heart of the dispositif.http://casimir.kuczaj.free.fr/Francais/Jeunes/misericorde_divine.htm By the way, it is from this page that we were able to trover this BLOG where We are now you and I, aren't we? Efficiency of this work is found in God's love for us and depends on the love of our return and our love mutual. If you have read my Blog correctly you have understood that My Vocation is to Love and I believe that it is also yours because it is universal. Sainte Thérèse from Lisieux was my first Big Sister of Heaven before Saint Faustina and there are all between them

the Two a lot of resemblance. Arriving four years ago 0 Bordeaux I discovered that there was before these two Saintes a Sister Charlotte Lamourou who lived in Bordeaux and whose tomb is at Pian le Médoc and who already had In his time divine inspirations on the divine mercy. In the next time I will m4y interresser de Closer! If you wish to write to me or correspond on the sijets mentioned in this Bolog or even the whole Site here is the imeil for that: catholique@orange.fr I will gladly welcome you in the TOTUS TUUS Group Aui prays for the success of the new evangelization desired by the Popes after the Second Vatican Council. It's Precisely through this website that I can best express my love of the Catholic Church and through it all the Nations of the world and

the French nation in particular. The site in French is in my opinion richer than the Polish part! Check by even that it is true. I know that the Holy Spirit does the same for the people He wants to lead to full knowledge of the truth and the Great Revelation. If you want not to stay Selfishly satisfied with your own deception but to contribute to the conversion of other humans then does not Be not inactive but ask the Lord God: What do I owe do? And follow your conscience! In the summer you will discover the fruits of your love for God and vis-à-vis your neighbors! Cheer up! And God bless your goodwill!

The beginning of the Third Millennium

The department back after the Creusot getaway is the same one I had lived in before almost all the time of my presence in France: It is the Department of the North. But it covers two dioceses: before I was in the Diocese of Lille and I am sent now in the year 2000 to the Diocese of Cambrai. I succeed Father Jan Guzikowski at Abstruse and two years later I also take charge of the Mission in Escoudain which is still served by Father Jan Kałuża. The two Polish Missions have existed for about sixty years. But they were Missions for the Families of the Minor. The new generation will see these mine sites as heritage and many will leave the region for look for work elsewhere. Ten years of a mission quiet without difficulties and I could Still continue until today there but the Providence wanted to send me to Bordeaux in 2010. Let us return to the beginnings of pastoral work in Abscon, Escaudain, Vicoigne, Marly, and Raillancourt-sur-Ôle, all near Cambrai. In Vicoigne the Polish community very active did a lot of things with the president of the Association created in 1989 Mr Filip Buniowski. This community where I was going to celebrate Holy Mass once a month was the pride Polish in deeds and installed the beautiful stele on the Place de Vicogne in commemoration 80th anniversary of the arrival of Polish emigration to the Region. quiet pastoral work of these ten years the Divine Providence helped me cope with events painful on other areas and gave me to Also live the joyful moments. I begin with joyful which is spend 50 years of life on Earth in January 2002 and the 25th - years of priestly ordination in 2003. But between these two events on September 23, 2002 God recalled of this world my Mother at the age of 76. And then the October 5, 2004 it was mom Papa who left this world. Fly with my Brothers and Sisters we are Now under the sky the next generation to to be called from this world to the day that God will choose for each individually. We realize of the enormous work that our Dear Parents had done for us and especially for the glory of God. 26 grandchildren are the fruits of their lives with that of their children of the first generation. Big thank you again and again our dear ones Parents Janina and Antoni. Goodbye in Heaven! In the workplace pastoral it was the Icon-Image of the Divine Mercy only with a parishioner Krystyna Albarez-Martinek aue we tried to make known and love! In Abscon this Icon passed from house to house for a while and after that it always remains at view in front of the Tabernacle at the Parish Church. Other Evangelization initiative it was the radio mission in Polish of one hour per month on the Radio of Aremberg. After Father Jan left Kałuża d'Escaudain my Mission has expanded by this territory. I was now celebrating Masses Sundays alternately in one or the other locality. We organized fraternal meetings and lived peacefully. The Father Jan Guzikowski my predecessor at Abscon came on a Sunday to celebrate its 50-year anniversary of priestly life. Mr and Mrs Alfred and Regina Marciniak helped me a lot in this Mission of Abscon and Mr Pierre Kamowski similarly in the Mission de l'Escaudain, and his wife who are neighbors in the rue Voltaire. The Hall with the Chapel dedicated to Divine Mercy in Escaudain costracized by the care of Father Józef Wąchała have made it possible to make spiritual and fraternal encounters that warmed the hearts of all. With my departure it is Father Andrzej Sowowski of Montigny-en-Ostrevent who took the relay but only for one Mass per month in the church of Abscon. I thank God for all that He allowed me to living with Persons who have benefited from My priestly service and final celebration before I leave for Bordeaux!

The Polish Catholic Mission of Saint John Paul II

We Let's come to the last chapter of this journey of my life in summary to share the grace of existence! We are well at Bordeaux at least as far as I'm concerned for four years already. Before me the Society of Christ had sent the Father Jarosław Kucharski in 2007. He celebrated the Holy Mass in Polish once a month at the chapel of the Seminary and had pastoral work for the Parish of Castelnau de Médoc and surroundings. For the Provincial the father Jan Ciągło it was not enough. So we told him writes that if he sends another religious priest without removing the one who is already there we will take care of Poles and he will have a job part-time pastoral care in the Bordeaux Centre sector. I have Already talked about the latest events who made a lot of noises but it's still my opponent who is trying to make me leave because I am preparing to an action on Divine Mercy and this is to him unbearable. I've been celebrating for four years Holy Mass for Poles at the church of Saint Nicholas and then I celebrated the Saturdays of Early Sunday Masses for the Parishes of the Sector which was recently taken from me and I visits five retirement homes in Caudéran; The latter pastoral work I keep. I believe the Lord wants to expand this Mercy beyond the Sector is Why did he allow such a blow against me! May the Lord be rented! Some chapters of this Memoir make referencing the situation and I defend myself before an injustice. I do not publish for the moment anything that could interfere with the smooth running of things: I live in Hope! The Polish community mobilizes also so that the Polish priest can be at their service even if there are not many as Practitioners. But what is difficult to obtain or to Keep is more valuable which is easy. I'm getting ready to leave but only on holiday and after in September I will resume the service in Caudéran for the French and Saint Nicholas for Poles. What I wrote about my love for Poland was expanded on the France and on all the Nations of the World. Our Church is the Divine Community on the Plan God's supernatural. The Second Vatican Council did not want to distancing humanity from the Message of the Gospel But on the contrary: it is a question of saving the greatest number possible members of humanity! We are weak without the help of God and His grace. We have to keep hope! Basing our future on promises of God and on His Love! It was to me give during this journey to preach three retreats: One for the Religious, one for the Religious and one for the Christians Poles in Germany. Every year for parishioners Polish too I try to propose in Lent the Spiritual exercises that can be called "retreat". The Society of the Merciful Christ that I would like to propose where possible will have for purpose to prolong in spiritual fruits all that God already has deposited in my nature of man and Christian. For you I am Bishop and with you I am Christian- said St. Augustine. I take that word for myself. For you I I am a priest and deacon and religious, and with you I am Man and Christian. Christians have their place in evangelization but must be continuously informed and trained. The very Strong in obtaining graces for evangelization is the Holy Rosary; the Rosary is the humble prayer and Sim cardbut very close to the Gospel in its Mysteries. Once again I say my thanks to all the people I have had the grace to meet and to serve and receive their services and I pray God to grant them All the graces necessary for us to be able to together glorify him for eternity. For Conclude - Pending the continuation of the events - I quote a fragment of the Charter for the Evangelization of Tramplin for the Mission of the diocese of Bordeaux from the page 4:"To evangelize is to allow everyone to find one's place in the Church and in society, it is to offer a place to the one who has none, It is to be able to say to each and every one: " You have a future! "In every encounter we must be in this profound respect for the mystery of the person. As the recalls Pope Francis, "true love is contemplative". The opposite of evangelization it is exclusion, it is telling the other "You have no room! If you want a future among us, You have to change! "Jesus took the opposite position: He who was of divine condition, he took the place of the excluded." It happened that I was put in the Information of the Catholic Church in Gironde of the June 2014 among priests who "are called to other services outside the Diocese of Bordeaux". Before concluding, I quote a small passage from this Charter from the following page: " WELCOMING THE DIFFERENCE LIKE A RICHNESS... Our communities are attentive to the reception of foreigners; It is not to assist the host but to encourage him, by the Weaving reassuring links, to find strength and will to continue his difficult journey. These meetings have a sacred dimension, a dimension of simplicity, of humility, of gratuitousness in reciprocal giving". Violà what is clear and very well affirmed and which reassures me about the information displayed by elsewhere, even in the Catholic Church in Gironde. She cannot contradict itself but only say and write truth! Since I am the religious priest of the Society of Christ and my Provincial did not have me transferred from my post as missionary of Bordeaux, I find myself thus unjustly expounded on the public forum by a public action information which is itself in contradiction obvious vis-à-vis the Charter of the Gospel recently promulgated by the Archbishop of Bordeaux, the Crdinal Jean-Pierre Ricard. I will support cost what does this Charter and Him who is its author cost, and I participate in the Stepping Stone to Mission even if we proclaim here or there that I am excluded!

The Charter of Evangelization of the Diocese of Bordeaux

CHARTER EVANGELIZATION A springboard for mission

Thank you pastoral sectors, services and movements, religious communities, prayer and solidarity, to diverse teams, to all those and those who contributed to the drafting of this charter. It is nourished by your initiatives and projects, your Achievements and your wishes, convictions and doubts, signs of the evangelical vitality of our Communities! By your words gathered in this document, you testify to your search for a way of being the Church of Christ in a changing world. By your desire to generate a New fraternity, you affirm that evangelization is not a simple strategy for transmitting the Evan- But an invitation to become "a Church that is convers- tion" (Paul VI, Ecclesiam Suam). Let us give thanks for all these shared riches! Building on your convictions, your experience and suggestions, but above all on what the Lord is already doing among us by His Spirit I promulgate this Charter of Evangelization for our dio- cesis. May it sustain the momentum missionary of all our communities!

Castle Moulérens (Gradignan) Whit Monday, 9 June 2014

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1/ To proclaim the Gospel is to live forever more in the intimacy of Christ!

" I invite Every Christian, wherever and wherever he is find, to renew today his meeting personal with Jesus Christ or, at least, to take the decision to let himself be met by him, to look for him every day without stopping. (Pope Francis: The Joy of The Gospel (E.G), n° 3) To be a bearer of a word that does good, that liberates, that warms, a creative word, it is necessary- to listen to the One who opens A future for man: "Listen to Israel!" Dt 6.4. "The Church cannot live without the lung of the prayer" (EG No. 262) To live in presence of God, we must learn to discover the companionship with Christ who precedes us over all the paths... Nurturing our friendship with Him through sharing the Word and rereading life... Recognize the work of the Spirit in our lives... Take personal time for renewal, creating, as we do invites Pope Francis, "from the places where to renew one's faith in Jesus crucified and risen, where to share your deepest questions and daily concerns, where to do in depth and with evangelical criteria discernment on one's own existence and experience, in order to orient towards the good and the beautiful its individual and social choices. " (E.G., No. 77). God loves, lifts up and saves all men. True, many live without believing in a savior God. But it gives us It is necessary to show that faith is a profound good fortune, the happiness of being feel loved by God, a God who saves by lowering oneself, which demands everyone's freedom. " Before we leave for WYD in Rio, we were invited to reread the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles". A young man from the diocese

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MAKE THANKS... • For the presence of communities contemplative and apostolic religious, • For groups Reading the Bible, • For times of worship, meditation, worship, • For times of sharing in the within movements and services, • For resourcing our communities, • For accompaniment spiritual requested and offered, • For deployment training proposals.

2/ To proclaim the Gospel is to welcome and to be let welcome!

Evangelizing It is to allow everyone to find their place in the Church and in society is to offer A place for those who have none is power say to everyone: "You have a future!" In every encounter, we must be in this deep respect of the mystery of the person. As Pope Francis reminds us, "True love is contemplative." The contrary to evangelization it is exclusion is saying to the other "You Don't have room! If you want a future among us, you need change! "Jesus took the opposite position: He who was of divine condition, he took the place of the excluded.

" I know that the Spirit is at work in my mission. Through prayer, I confided in the Lord that He may sustain me. " A catechist

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WELCOME DIFFERENCE AS WEALTH... Our Communities are attentive to the reception of the foreigner; It is not a question of assisting the host but of encourage it, by forging reassuring links, to find the strength and the will to pursue one's challenge route. These encounters have a sacred dimension, a dimension of simplicity, humility, gratuitousness in reciprocal giving. To evangelize is Reaching all forms of poverty: accepting seek, with those who knock at our door, the way to their own freedom, so that they, too, can Their turn, share and give. "Sometimes we are tempted to be Christians who maintain themselves at a prudent distance from the Lord's wounds. Yet Jesus wants us to touch human misery, suffering flesh of the others" (E.G., No. 270). We need to listen in the presence of this God who comes to ask Help. Then, paths of Peace open. He gives us We must listen respectfully to the burdens that are on us entrusted, and thus try to enlighten, with that who visits us, a possible path. " Give to your servant a heart that listens " 1 Kings 3, 9

WELCOME IN THE MOMENT open to the unexpected: Do not make those who have often waited a long wait wait before daring to knock on the door. There is a moment of through seize, or rather serve. The Catechumenal proposals possible today, allow us to be more responsive.

" I believe that God believes in us, in reality, in the future, in our dreams, in prayer." Word of a young adult with trisomy 21.

" We We are sometimes in a pastoral care of the "small step" (it takes time...), listening to the one To whom we are sent, sometimes in a relationship of the snapshot that we must welcome (it must seize the moment...). When we knock on the door of a sick person's room, we hear" Come in! ", and perhaps, then, we will hear " Stay! ", the first stage of a companionship of two human roads that met ". A hospital chaplain.

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WELCOME WITHOUT PREJUDICE "Who am I to judge?" " Here I stand at the door and knock on Rev 3:20. The other is always inhabited by the presence of the Christ silently illuminating his existence. Welcome it is to hope in the other beyond this that he says of himself. The Church is a sign of the confidence of God to his people.

WELCOME LEADS TO CONVERSION To evangelize is to divest oneself. We are called to change posture, to receive as much as to To give. The most destitute, the excluded, speak to us about God: they reveal the gospel to us and us Challenge. Living evangelization is to welcome the grace of encounter is the Lord which awaits us through the encounter with the brother. To welcome is to "do with and together", and not doing things for others, doing things for the place of others, because it would simply be taking their place! To welcome is to open oneself to hospitality reciprocal.

WELCOME IS TO CALL TO EVANGELIZE, IT IS TO CALL! To evangelize is to say, "I trust in you, God trust in you!" Say and repeat to all that we need everyone, that everyone can be recognized within the community, that there is no of "little talents"

" We spent twice 5 days in the favelas of Rio. We We were all welcomed as a family. People who didn't have much gave us everything... To be a missionary is to let oneself be welcomed... " Testimony of young people of the diocese

" Home-coffee " proposed before Sunday Mass in the entrance of the Church: initiative to welcome people who arrive before Mass and particularly encourage people who are isolated or have difficulty taking into account Loads this service.

" Home-News " proposed at the entrance and at the Exit of Sunday Mass in the church: initiative the reception service to answer questions and Requests from people who do not have contact with the community parish only on Sundays.

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MAKE THANKS... • For the inventiveness deployed in order to offer always welcoming presences more adapted to everyone's life • For the sake people in a host situation to train more, to Allow time for personal and team proofreading • For attention, listening and respect present in each meeting • For "coffees" of the heart" and other forms of presence...

3/ To proclaim the Gospel is to go to the Meet and invent new paths!

HOMELESSNESS IS ONE OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE COVENANT PEOPLE. Listening to the Gospel invites us to an inner displacement. We are called to living fidelity to the deep orientation of our life which is our faith. But loyalty projects us into mobility: if I am available at the call of the Lord, I am, therefore, set in motion. Abraham is the first witness: "Go, leave your country... "Genesis 12,1. We have to move in our ways of being, of doing... " The intimacy of the Church with Jesus is a Itinerant intimacy... True to the model of the Master, it is vital that today the Church to proclaim the Gospel to all, in all places, on all occasions, without hesitation, without repulsion and fearless" (EG, No. 23).

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• For Those moments when each of us turned away of the planned path, following the example of Moses and the burning bush, detour in our habits, displacement with our gaze, to testify to a

Church which is born of the encounter. • For these weeks missionaries, where the encounter arises from the crossing of two paths, where the same Spirit is at work in each, where the initial face-to-face of the first contact can turn into side by side, companions of the same road... • For B'ABBA encounters that are born in the different Sectors of the diocese: moments of trust when one can share questions, questions from so far away that we no longer knows how to formulate them: "Why suffering?... Believing in life despite everything... Being parents, a galley, A passion ?... " • For Alpha courses that allow everyone to discover or rediscover the basics of the Christian faith, to share its Questions about the meaning of life, in a fraternal atmosphere over a meal; for the "Alpha-health" course " which brings together caregivers who listen of God present in their lives in contact with suffering, " When I visit a person of nationality stranger in his clinic room, I propose him that we pray together the Lord's Prayer, each in his own language kindergarten. " A clinic chaplain

" The experience of the last week of mission led us on paths that we had not considered too much at the beginning : Go to: We went to meet the inhabitants asking them to welcome us for lunch in front of their homes, with neighbours and friends. " I didn't have I don't want to come," a lady told me who went on to declaring: "Fortunately I answered At the invitation of my neighbour, thank you for having me allowed to speak in truth. " We are also went to meet the inhabitants in their homes. Very Often surprised, often happy, they, like us, appreciated these meetings. - In the review of our practice we have perceived the urgency of prayer to accompany these Meetings. They are brothers, sisters, to whom we have the happiness to say, "The Kingdom of God is everything close to you". Testimony gathered during a Mission Week

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• For The new rhythms in our times of gathering and Celebration: The KTvacances that offers to take a free time for God during the holidays, inviting comrades who do not usually come to the cate, The " Sundays differently ", weekends " Celebrate as brethren", in order to "enable God to meet his entire people", and many others initiatives that demonstrate the creativity of The Spirit...

DARE A FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT Many of our contemporaries did not never heard of Christ and do not know His Good Short story. Some are indifferent or on the re- serve, because they don't know him. Others have been educated in another culture, or seek it without know how to find it. " All have the right to receive the gospel. " (EG, No. 14). We have to seize all the opportunities that arise during of our meetings to say, as Pope Francis tells us, invite: "Jesus Christ loves you, he gave His life to save you, and now He is alive by your side every day to enlighten you, to strengthen you, to release. " (EG, No. 164).

"God in the misfortune of the world, it is the One who washes the feet." Shared word in a meeting of the Alpha-Santé journey

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THE THERE ARE MANY NEW WAYS TO PROCLAIM THE GOSPEL Evangelism is creative! The personal encounter, such as the use of technology News, renewed pedagogies, the proposal time of celebration, prayer and "different" encounters, testify to the desire to reach everyone. Let's go to those who have given up The desire to believe... Let us remember that there is Different gateways to the faith: the liturgy, the Bible, art, literature, music, Cinema... Let's not forget that the internet is A valuable means of communication, a multiplier of invitations, a new version of " Come and Follow me "evangelical!

MAKE THANKS... • For all these skills put at the service of the proclamation of the Gospel. •For the care taken in the display, the making flyers, setting up websites lively, easy to consult, outward-looking to provide an information relay for local life, accessible for people who come to the Church of occasionally. • For harmonization Thought between websites and newspapers parishes, between the different sites of the same pastoral ensemble. • For the space offered by some sites of our diocese to deposit messages that testify to the personal journey of each one, a shared prayer, a moment of personal encounter with Christ...

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LIVE A NEW FRATERNITY WITHIN OUR COMMUNITIES We must be attentive, beyond what we do together, to what we are, to what we become together, through complementarity of our vocations. Communities express the desire to to build a Church where a communion of communication grows. ammunition. Certainly, organization is necessary and important, but the important thing is not to have a Perfect organization, that's how we let us live, even in its imperfections, which is the way of the Gospel and learning about fraternal life.

The Pope Francis warns us against "a Depersonalization of pastoral care that leads to giving greater attention to organization than to persons" (EG, No. 82). Let us ask ourselves the question: in everything that exists in our pastoral sector, where there is the joy of the gospel? Where the joy of the Gospel Is she absent?

MAKE GRACE... • For bridges, transversality woven within our communities, services diocesan, movements between them, movements apostolic with the local Church, • For desire a living communion within the celebrations, in particular by greater attention in mutual reception, by a visibility of people more particularly responsible for being attentive to newcomers, • For twinning between sectors, exchange times between communities,

" I have long remained a "foreigner" within the parish assembly; a plug of Community consciousness allowed everyone to enter in a mutual welcome at the beginning of the Mass".

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• For the desire to further build intergenerational ties, especially in local charitable actions, • For Days of the "guest servants" who bring together people committed to the service of communities: time for exchange, rejuvenation, of mutual support, which bring together in the Church all those who are servants of the community, or called to the being.

LIVE A NEW FRATERNITY WITHIN SOCIETY The Church does not live for herself, she is called to be in the world and for the world, the sign of the joy that God gives in his Son. Evangelism tion, it is a humanization of our relationships, a presence listening, proposing faith through witness of our own life, daring to say for what and for whom we Act. "The Church does not grow by proselytism, but "by attraction". (EG, No. 14). The announcement of the Gospel transforms our way of being related. We see the involvement of Christians in the life of the city, through political commitments, trade unions and associations. This immersion of Christians in Local action, at the service of others, is a source evangelism. " This " meal of the Neighbors " was a "meal of the world"! This makes Good to discover that the other who worries by His image in society, is in fact, a being human whose concerns, mainly protection and love of family, are not far away of ours. Our outlook is different in the aftermath of this meeting. Testimony taken the day after a Neighbours' Day proposed by a pastoral sector

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This goes hand in hand with all that can be presence and visibility of the Church within local life. " Jesus himself is the model of this evangelical choice which introduces us to the heart of the people. What good this does us to see him close to everyone... Seduced by this model, We want to integrate ourselves deeply into the society, sharing everyone's life and listening their concerns, collaborate materially and Spiritually with them in their needs, we rejoice with those who are joyful, rain with those who cry and commit to building a world New, shoulder to shoulder with the others. " (EG, No. 269).

MAKE THANKS... • For the many collectives and associations that bring together Christians and non-Christians, • For active presence in neighborhoods, and particularly in multi-family buildings, • For the Christian partnership with cultural initiatives and local festivities, • For churches with open doors on market days and events in the municipality, • For multiple signs of a " pastoral care of proximity", in particular through the presence of of the many pastoral relays, of the Evangelical Service of the Sick... • For parish open tables, and Neighbours' feasts initiated by the parishes, which are born here and there, • For apostolic movements Attentive to be present in places where the message of the Gospel has become distant, • For signs of visibility of the Church within the city: "café Theo", celebrations in the open air, Pastoral Relay of Solidarity, Night of the churches... • For these multiple initiatives by which everyone feels called to do "the little bit that depends of us " St. Teresa of Avila " I used to visit sick people in my neighborhood. and I testified of the gospel" in the name of my faith." Since I joined the team from the S.E.M (Evangelical Service of the Sick), I understood that I met people "in the name of the Church," thus participating in a common pastoral solicitude. " A visitor to the SEM

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Follow Christ is at the same time entering into his intimacy and participate in his mission: "As the Father has told me: sent, in my turn, I send you. " Jn 20:21 The love of God who calls us is the same as that of who sends us. "Mission is a passion for Jesus but, at the same time, a passion for his people" (EG, n°268) We must get out of the in-between, dare to simplicity in the expression of our faith, being messengers "of eternal novelty" (EG, No. 11) In the free of charge of a reception, a visit, the Holy Spirit is at work: the Visit is sacrament of the brother. We are sent as servants of Hope. It is at Each of them now write new pages in this Great book of evangelization. " In throughout the life of the Church, it must always be manifested that the initiative comes from God, that it is "he who loved first" (1 Jn 4:19) and that "it is God alone who gives growth" (1 Cor 3:7)" (EG, No. 12). The Lord entrusts us with His Gospel. Let's welcome him and Let us witness his joy!

SECOND PART: THE REASONS AND DECISIONS IN THE BORDEAUX VINEYARD. MY LETTERS TO CARDINAL JEAN-PIERRE RICARD

Casimir Kuczaj SChr, priest 13, Place Sainte Eulalie

33000 Bordeaux Bordeaux, Holy Monday 14 April 2014 To his Eminence the Cardinal

John Pierre RICARD Archbishop of Bordeaux

Sir the Cardinal and my Father Bishop,

It's with amazement that I learned from the mouth of your Vicar General, Father Jean Rouet, met on April 7, that it is likely that I am no longer authorized to exercise my ministry in the bosom of the Church, which Christ Jesus has entrusted to you, because of my 'spirituality and mentality' which would not suit 'French pastoral care'.

After Having scrutinized my conscience and prayed, I asked the Lord Jesus in the following days, what I must do, given that I found myself deeply offended by the arguments put forward by my Unfit to 'the French mentality' because of my spirituality and mentality Polish and also by a certain disavowal for the charisma that I had received with my religious and priestly vocation within the Congregation Societas Christi.

I give thanks to Jesus Christ for having me chosen to serve Him in the priesthood, as well as His Church, for the salvation of the souls of Polish emigrants, that I have been practicing for thirty-two years in France. I know my Indignity and inadequacy in the accomplishment of one's Holy Will; I am getting older and prepares for the final encounter with Him.

Nevertheless I feel a certain oppression on my freedom of conscience, in memory of the words heard, and a certain spiritual discrimination, as if they were playing with me 'à cause of my Polish spirituality and mentality', without my being at fault, except, perhaps, 'to be myself.' I believe Christ Jesus pushes me to write to you. That is why I address you This letter to ask you not to resort to pressure on me through my Provincial, Jean Ciaglo. To him I asked to be able to stay at Bordeaux to possibly defend my rights and my Honor as a Christian – priest – religious and as a French citizen.

I leaves it to my Provincial, as Jesus did. in relation to his Father, referring to only to His own works that He performed moreover in perfect obedience to this same Father. I came to Bordeaux in obedience to my Congregation including the Provincial, Father Jean Ciaglo, in charge of the Major Superior in France and Spain. I trusts Jesus who will guide him by his Spirit on the true path of God's rights and human rights according to the Gospel, so that our mission that Christ may confide in his Church and in the world be well accomplished.

In as long as the French, seeing e.g. the imigrants as the Prime Minister, Mr. Valtz, receive the highest responsibility in France, and at the same time being confronted personally to a threat of being 'put in place' cause of maladjustment' to work within the Church that is in Bordeaux, for a reason of my identity with 'a Polish mentality' and A spirituality other than 'French pastoral care' would demand', in the words of Father Jean Rouet, it hurts to see this and I suffer from my Catholic Church in France thus conceived and presented.

Since I have been French for a long time, I could ask and to seek employment, the work that is offered in this country, And here we respect the human rights to have the personality as one possesses, to be oneself, even allowing same-sex marriages; and in the Church which is at Bordeaux I am told: 'You are not compatible with our pastoral care'; So, we're going to write to your superior to 'take away' you. Do I not therefore have my human rights in the Church in them? having moreover in French society? It's very bizzare as a situation and above all contrary to the Gospel of Christ, I believe. I am Currently the victim of this look and judgment on my person who scandalize me, as a believer. For the good of the Church, I do not write an open letter but personal and private to You only, with the copy for my Provincial. And I decided not to inform the Poles of what is happening to us now hoping that the Cardinal of the Church that you are will be able to put an end to All this history and everything that had happened will remain discreet.

The Church of Christ who would not act according to the Spirit of love for the small and the weak, and immigrants make it party, could not hope to have news priestly and religious vocations. After the year of the Faith we will have the Year of Consecrated Life and I, as a Catholic and a person consecrated to God, I must dampen in myself this fear of the stranger in my Church by recalling human rights in the country who welcomed me with all my rights and duties, and I must suffer since this Church does not want to recognize my Rights to work for the good of the souls of immigrants Polish in fidelity to my charisma of the member of the Congregation Societas Christi. This is not normal and It's just unfair.

It's my Personal Letter to You, Monsignor, in which I Sincerely express my feelings that I feel. I don't I didn't expect this here, after very good welcome from almost four years ago by You, Sir Cardinal. If I summarize what I am saying, I say: as a French, I am angry, as a Pole, I I am overwhelmed, as a Christian, I am Outraged and as a religious priest, I feel the Christ in me to be rejected. Let me explain: Although I opened my heart from the priest to the Vicar General of the Diocese on April 7, It seems that he did not want to understand anything and he wrote to my Provincial a letter which presented me in 'incapable' and 'good for nothing' for 'A pastoral care' that wants to be the best in the world, but it is not. The proof? I am for her a annoying person, and as a priest even more, in occurrence, when I must be able to pour out in mutual exchange. I thought I was living it in good shape collaborator of the parish priest, Father Didier Monget, and It is said that he cannot find help in months for this pastoral. But why was his opinion not asked? He tells me not to know anything about reproaches me. Such violence of negative gaze on what I am as a human person? My spirituality and mentality disturbs instead of being consulted, without any pretension I say, but in the name of the Lord. Am I a bad worker in the Lord's vineyard since I have kept values received at the first part of my life in Poland? Stop watching Difference of a bad eye. That there be new vocations in the Church of Bordeaux, I pray all Friday evenings at the church of Sainte Eulalie; but we must first respect those that God gives us, when they come from elsewhere, even from Poland! But when you don't have achievements anymore ripe and despised, the Lord does not want a heartless and cold pastoral care, the effect of which I suffer in This moment, unfairly. The Lord tells me to calm down and forgive the one who offended me, and the Community in my Provincial, who was to read a letter putting in bad opinion of him, and the charisma he holds of the living God, the gift and the mystery, as said Blessed John Paul II, in relation to his own vocation.

Exactly the spirituality of John Paul II has always inspired me and I would like to live it in the continuity of what I have received in Poland, where I lived half of my life and the rest I think I live it in France, if I am not does not discourage too much to stay there, as we do currently. And I am convinced of the importance of Revelation of Divine Mercy made by the intermediary of Saint Faustina and brought to knowledge of the whole world by John Paul II. Is that what Gene in my spirituality? What for? So where shall we go? May the canonization of Blessed John Paul II and John XXIII change the situation. I appeal to their saints intercession with Christ by concluding this Letter.

Jesus I trust You! Totus tuus ego sum Domine! Totus tuus ego sum Maria!

Please accept, Your Eminence, my sincere filial greetings in Jesus Christ our Lord. I offer my prayer to all your intentions and the Church for which you are responsible. Father Casimir Kuczaj SChr

My meeting with the Cardinal scheduled for July 3, 2014 29 June , St. Peter and St. Paul, 2014

(In Preparation of the meeting on 3 July: the text who wants to be the expression of my thoughts) A Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard, Archbishop of Bordeaux The Cardinal and my Father Bishop,

You have welcomed me very well into the Church which is in Bordeaux four years ago and I thank you for it sincerely. I have striven to be Cooperator priest and chaplain of the community Polish according to what the Lord had given me in natural gifts and talents and especially in what He had for me granted in the supernatural spiritual realm and especially the grace of the priesthood and the common charism of the Society of Christ. I thank the Lord for the peace and joy he gives me to fulfill His Will that is expressed for me in the last instance through the voice of my Superior Provincial, and since 32 of

that the Franco-Spanish Province which resides in France, to Aulnay-sous-Bois. It was in 2010 Father Jean Ciaglo who had signed with You and the Rector of the Mission Polish Catholic in France, Monsignor Stanislas Jez, the Convention that allowed me to be appointed for missionary service in the Church which is at Bordeaux. .

For as far as I am concerned, according to the Convention and Your Mission Letter, I am on my second Three-year term since September 1, 2013 and I think I must be there at least until the end of that period, this which is confirmed by my Provincial Superior, and I considers it the will of the Lord.

Therefore My surprise was great, when, contrary to this will of the Lord, Sunday, June 22 before Mass for the Poles in Saint Nicholas, I was able to read in the Review for the month of June - the Catholic Church in Gironde- Information about me that said the opposite.

It's Why, I asked right away to have a audience with You, Mr. Cardinal. I don't have nothing received from you before that day and the Provincial Superior to whom I phoned on this subject had always confirmed to me the same will of the Lord. 'The Convention must be respected and everything we write or say to Your subject endures it calmly. I pray for you and be Confident everything will work out. I am in contact with the Rector on this subject. He will react, surprised as he is not being made aware of anything as a Coordinator than by me personally. The Convention must be respected etc. Your trial will come to an end and all is well that ends well etc.'

It's True, that between April 7 and June 22 I lived something that tested me a lot. I have reacts with a Personal Letter written to You April 14, 2014, but the Provincial did not authorize me to send it. Later, when I learned that my colleague Jaroslaw Kucharski wanted to separate from our Congregation and that it has been given a new post without our Provincial being consulted. I even have writes a new Letter with a complaint to Your Court dated June 6, 2014. But my Provincial did not Not given permission, again, to do so. I He is asked what was happening and why a denunciation clandestine of a group of parishioners (the fact of which I obtained confirmation from Father Didier Monget, without looking any further) was able to trigger such hostility on behalf of your Vicar General, Jean Rouet, who apparently believed them; What I had felt during our interview of April 7, without knowing its origin, Because he didn't tell me about it at all. She had to remain clandestine?! Guessing a little that my person He was unsympathetic and I still don't know why? I attach the Two Letters I had written to You. The Provincial has authorized me to do so, if I found it really useful). I am told to him, to the Abbot Jean Rouet and then, I wrote to him: If my person does not not suitable for the Polish mission, there is still my colleague in the diocese that could be moved in Bordeaux if my Superior finds it good, but the Polish mission must be continued; I I will always refer to its decision as to the will of the Lord, since I am a religious priest.

In This case there is an injustice that, according to my co-science, I do not will ever accept. That is why I ask my Church, which is led by the College of Bishops, under the responsibility of the Successor of Peter, and of which You are Member, to defend myself before this injustice. Yes, as Pastor of the Diocesan Church you thought that your Vicar had not committed any fault, I ask you to be fair about this situation. To begin with, the Convention must be respected and my Provincial no longer bothered. There are delays and deadlines to be taken into account and a search for God's will at all times, for all parties involved, but without ever trying to force a Awareness of anyone, and especially not to make blows ad personam to lower the other as it was made to me before my Superior and to me from my Superior before me, Monday, June 23 by telephone, once I had posted on my personal Blog a article entitled: Information about me that is not true. I sent it to Monsieur Father Jean Rouet thinking him responsible for this information. He got angry and kept me going. treat as a definitive exclusion from the Dicesus and had badly spoken of my Provincial and finally cut off the communication brutally. It saddened me even more, after ten weeks of spiritual oppression related to the clandestine slanderous denunciation that set in motion a Compressor roller. Why would you want to denigrate me in front of my Congregation, before the Presbyterate, and finally before all The Church through Information on the page of nominations: I do not believe at all that to be among the priests called to other services in outside the diocese be my place. So what should I say when Since then, I have been asked about this from everywhere. Must that the explanation comes from You to calm spirits and ceases to cause scandal in the Polish Community totally surprised and to whom nothing is said about the rest of the things. Justice must be done and your statement must be made put an end to the rumours.

I will come and tell you, Cardinal and my Father Bishop what I sincerely think. I believe in my springboard for the mission in the Diocese of Bordeaux started four years ago and I ask to be able to Continue as long as possible. The Lord allowed tested before we all live in Church the Year of the Consecrated Life, willed and announced by the Pope François 2014/2015. I seek that it is the will of God concretely for me in the diocese. I got it asked from the beginning of my mission here: Lord, what do you want me to do. Today I came to You to declare that the Lord wants me to be one spark of His divine mercy according to what He said to St. Faustina. From Poland will come a Spark that will prepare humanity for My last coming. This ordeal was so that I can be purified before a new stage of my life as a consecrated person and priest and so that He, the Lord, may act a little more in this place of my Nothingness that I am. That, my Eminence, is what is happening shows me as truth about my journey missionary for four years in Bordeaux. May the Lord enlighten you on this subject and may you give me a mission to be your guarantor in all that is linked to the spirituality of Saint John Paul II, who said at the Shrine of Divine Mercy to Krakow in 2002: If we want to understand my Pontificate, we must refer to the Message of Christ transmitted by Saint Faustina.

In conclusion, two confidences, my Father Bishop: In my young age and in our parish church there was above a large watch to the right of the Tabernacle the Image of Jesus with this inscription: Jesus, I trust in You! It was through She that I received the first calls to be priest. Second appeal which became decisive to the approach of my Bac, it was a sentence in the article by the Co-founder of our Congregation, the Servant of God Ignacy Posadzy: 'Polish souls at The stranger gets lost!' I trust Jesus and his Church founded by him on Peter Apostle. I trust in my Congregation, the Society of Christ. And I trust You! That's all I wanted to tell you and share, in this opportunity to present myself before You, Mr. Cardinal. I hope by speaking to You and listening to You make further progress in the faith, hope and charity.

The Letter-Memoir on the Icon of the Holy Trinity or the Image of Divine Mercy

Written by

the Father Casimir Kuczaj SChr

Presented to the Cardinal on July 3, 2014 as a contribution to the 'Stepping Stone' for the Mission' in the continuation of the 'Parcours Missionary'.

'Philip, whoever sees me sees the Father' J 14:9. the image of Jesus known throughout the world since the canonization of Saint Faustina, with this little phrase of Jesus, made of her, in my opinion, the Icon of the Holy Trinity. Red rays 'signifying' the Son of God and His work of righteousness and the pale blue rays 'signifying' the Holy Spirit and his work of the Sanctification. The Eternal Father who by the Passion and the Passover of his Son reconciled the world with Him and sent the Holy Spirit to offer his mercy had willed this Icon for the rest of Humanity in its earthly history. I didn't know I was touching my eyes also this great and good news in all my young age.

I I am more and more convinced, living my Golden Jubilee of my encounter with Jesus in full awareness of being Christian and knowing expressed Truths in this Letter to the Cardinal. At the age of 12 I was watching The Image of the Merciful Christ in My Church parochial and I felt drawn to Jesus for being one day his disciple and priest. Seven years later, I discovered that He also wants me to be a member of the Congregation Nun sent all over the world for the service of Polish Emigration. With the pontifical work of the Saint John Paul II, whose ordination had not preceded me The Election that of a few months, I was able to experience like him the greatness and goodness of Our Lord God: the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. And, I don't forget never since my childhood has there been this Image-Icon which, gradually, over time, allowed me to Strengthen myself in the conviction, which I will present initially.

We are saved thanks to the mystery of the Saint Trinity; I believe that if God were not the Holy Trinity, we could never be saved. The offense against God demanded that it was God who Only could save us. And the solution was found in God, since He is in Himself the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Everything will therefore happen between the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost and we are the great ones beneficiaries: this is the Great Mystery of Divine Mercy. The devil doesn't believe it at all. He cannot be saved because he does not believe in the Holy Trinity which is at the same time, or rather above all else

time One living and true God and there is no other than Him. So, therefore, it is necessary to be a Christian to hope to be saved. To hope is not to disunite this that God had united from the

beginning... faith, hope and charity. On our side It is the trinity of gifts and virtues to practice and grow. Everyone will report on this which he had done especially in this religious field, and spiritual. It is all this in particular that Jesus had wished to remind his Church and the whole world by the interviews and messages dictated to the Holy Fausine, Secretary and Apostle of the DIVINE MISERICHORD.

Sir the Cardinal and my Father Bishop, and with you all my Brothers and sisters in humanity, I am more and more convinced that if there were no

from God, the Holy Trinity, who is one living and true God, or in other words, if God were Alone, and not in three No ones, we could not be saved. It's What I would like to explain to you,

with the grace of this One God: the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. The Gospel in this sentence: 'God has so much loved the world that He gave His Only Begotten Son: So every man who believes in him will not perish, but he will obtain eternal life' J 3:16n reveals and says this in a clear and amazing way. In another passage, Jesus says it himself. personally and this to the crowd: 'All those whom the Father gives me will come to me; and the one who comes to I'm not going to throw him out... For the will of my Father is that every man who sees the Son and believes in obtain eternal life for him...'J 6:37nn. Notice here the words: Every man who 'sees the Son'. I have discovered by contemplating the Image I call several names: 'of the Redemption', 'of the Divine Mercy', of the Holy Trinity', 'of Two Testaments', 'of Holiness', etc.

It's for me personally 'the Image of my Vocation' and the Icon of the New Evangelization. I think that in the expression – 'he who sees the Son' that we must rightly think of the Eucharist, the Blessed Sacrament, when the consecrated Host is exposed to worship by the People believer' – must also be heard what happened in the life of Saint Faustina to whom Jesus had say: Paint the picture you see and let it be seen First in the chapel of your convent and then in the whole world; Through it sinners will receive my graces come out of my heart full of mercy.

That Jesus in the thirties of the twentieth century refers us to his Words of the Gospel that is obvious. But that it also refers to a Painting of his Portrait with concrete indications on e.g. eyes must be those of my painful Passion', 'the rays have their precise meanings: 'water' that justifies' and 'the blood that gives life' Isn't that surprising? And this express will of the Lord to give to

The Church and to the whole world 'the spoon to draw graces of salvation at its Source' was it not a recipe given to Humanity sick means for his healing? I am amazed by it being of my youngest age looking at it and the seer of this painting in my parish church of Saint Anthony of Padua in Poland. Throughout my life, he has was given the grace to be fascinated more and more by this Christ

Jesus through this Image and I fell madly in love with it thanks to all that I was first able to read of the life of Saint Faustina and especially since the day of my Priestly ordination 'read with so many others the

life of Saint John Paul II'. He, precisely, during the second Great War, on foot passed through the place where found this Image in the Convent at the time Sisters of the Mother of Mercy in Krakow, And I am deeply convinced that he had experienced a such an experience as I, twenty years later, the Lord looked at him and said, 'Don't be afraid, come, follow me!' and he entered the seminary clandestine saying, like me thirty years later: Okay Jesus, I trust in You!

For that the Message and Image given through the service of life of Saint Faustina be brought to the knowledge of the whole world and be a steering table of the New evangelization for the

third millennium of the Salutary Proclamation for Humanity from the Holy Trinity, one living and true God, young Karol Wojtyła was chosen and sent to within the Church as Grand Pope for

be the Apostle of Divine Mercy. He has it publicly recognized, at the time of the consecration of the Basilica that bears this name in Krakow in August 2002, during his last apostolic journey to his native country. If we wants to understand my Pontificate, the Pontificate of John Paul II, he said. said, it will be necessary to bend and meditate on the Message of Christ who came through St. Faustina. Already his first encyclical 'Redemptor hominis' on the Redeemer the Son of God, Jesus Christ, published on Day of Saint Casimir March 4, 1979, put my heart in solidarity strong spiritual with him and his pontificate in his early days

and when I learned that his second encyclical was 'Dives in miséricordia' of 30 November 1980 - on Divine Mercy, I understood that his spirituality of the priest, of the bishop and now of the pope, was As closely as mine from a young age to this Icon of the Holy Trinity-ù the Image of the Redemption. It was after that that I got the confirmation of what I intuitively guessed, of his career life

during the War and its attendance at the Chapel where this Image-Icon was exposed all this time-ù and until today. From the Son to the Father, from the Father to the Son and to the Holy Spirit. The Holy Trinity is glorified

without ceases in his words and deeds of life. The third Encyclical could only be this: 'Dominum et vivificantem' of 18 May 1986. Logically one would expect first to hear about the Father, after the Son and finally of the Spirit. The first on the Father, the second on the Son and the third on the Holy Spirit. That would make more sense, according to the known formulas. But when we are familiar with this Image-Icon we do as he Saint John Paul II had done. This is the foundation of his spirituality and his pontificate, as I I already noted it at the beginning of this essay, quoting his own words from his last trip to Poland. His last trip in France to Lourdes was also a sign to me regarding his piety Marian and its episcopal motto 'Totus Tuus' taken of the Book of St Luis Grignon

from Montfort: 'From true devotion to the Saint Virgin Mary.'

In in preparing for the Holy Year he did the same or almost: From the Son by the Holy Spirit to the Eternal Father, to celebrate the Incarnation of the Word in the light of the Holy Trinity. And for the third millennium he advised us to fix our gaze on the Son who is the perfect Image of the Father in the Holy Spirit. Fix your sound A look at... It would say little on our side, look at an Image, and yet this is counted for many in the eyes of God to trust him in this way as a only true God, in Three Divine Persons, to this most Holy Trinity, saying humbly: Jesus, I have Trust in You! There is in this sentence the essence of the Faith, Hope and Charity. It's why, Jesus asked St. Faustina that this particular Invocation be put also on this Image which must attract souls and souls to HIM. hearts of human beings through the biaie of their own eyes. The Holy Spirit in this conversation between the Son and the Father who gives eternal life willed for mankind this Unique Sacramental, which is not yet, despite everything, What is done in the world with the publications of prayers and messages carried in particular by 'le Petit Journal' of St. Faustina, not yet fully and fully understood. It is not the sacrament, yes, okay; but such a Intervention with at the top 'a consecration of humanity to Divine Mercy', by the Great Roman Pontiff, which is now permitted to call Saint in such a short time after his departure of this world, should this not challenge us and this is my Case, dear Christian friends or not, I would say, without wanting to offend person: If you

fêtes vous serez chrétiens! Vous serez tous les chrétiens ou ‘vous ne serez pas’, je dirais, en pensant au paroles de Marlaux, à propos de la spiritualité de l’humanité dans le troisième millénaire.

Dieu en est l’Auteur discret en action des Paroles prononcées et révélées en même temps que des signes qui sont donnés comme la Sainte Ecriture en donne pleins d’exemples. Je vais essayer de vous dire quelque chose que vous n’avez jamais encore entendue, l’explication de cette Image et Inscription données à l’humanité dans le Temps qui sont les Derniers.

J’ai trouvé tout dans cette Image et cette Inscription et je vais m’en expliquer en méditant avec vous la Parole de Dieu. Instance de notre conscience, une place première et privilégiée à laquelle la Sainte Trinité veut confier le secret royal et à travers elle, la mienne et la tienne, à toute humanité. Puisqu’elle doit aussi communier aux souffrances du Christ, avant qu’elle soit digne de témoigner, ce que j’ai vécu aussi récemment avant de pouvoir m’exprimer avec une nouvelle force de l’Esprit, je dois penser maintenant et commencer par invoquer Celle qui est la Mère de ce ‘Maître à penser et à vivre’ qui est Jésus-Christ! Elle nous a tous enfanté dans la douleur de son coeur immaculé pour une nouvelle destinée quand sa gloire se révélera avec celle de son Fils puisque l’Esprit de gloire, l’Esprit de Dieu a reposé en elle en premier sur la terre: elle qui a été proclamée ‘pleine de grâce’ en tant que la Vierge par l’Ange et ‘bienheureuse’ en tant que ‘Mère du Seigneur’ par Elisabeth, la Sainte Vierge et Mère de ce Grand Mystère qui est la Redemption et la Miséricorde. Pour ce qui est de la Justice, il n’y a qu’un Seul Rédempteur et qu’une seule Justice accomplie par Lui.

JESUS CHRIST FULFILLED ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS

AND DIVINE MERCY IS ACCESSIBLE

Prologue.

St Thomas Aquinas in his time on the question of Faith Christian made herself known to the Church as 'an angelic doctor'. He found that the Credo could accommodate a few more articles. It is this idea that I would like to focus on. In this opportunity to want to deepen with readers the content of the Message transmitted to humanity by the intermediary of Saint Faustina.

Here is the words of St. Thomas: "We find well in the articles (of the Creed) a work appropriate to the Father is that of creation; and, similarly, a work of work appropriate to the Holy Ghost is, 'He has spoken. by the Prophètes. Among these articles must therefore be also places a work that is appropriate to the Son in his divinity." 1. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica t.III p.27, Les Editions du Cerf, Paris 2007

This sentence is a starting point for in-depth research of Sacred Scripture, in our time of the new evangelization, Where we are. I hopetoget the help of the Holy Spirit who spoke through the Prophètes first and then by the Apostles and to be his little instrument in this task Theological inspired by the canonization of the Blessed John Paul II.

According to St. John Paul II: 'The theologian cannot limit to preserving the treasures of doctrine inherited from the past. It should seek to understand and express faith in such a way that it can be accepted in our own way contemporary to think and speak'. John Paul II. My book de méditation, Edition du Rocher Jean-Paul Bertrand, 2004, for The French edition. p.71.

Like St. Thomas Aquinas had written, which I quoted at the beginning of our reflection, I believe in the light of faith, which the Creed, also called the 'Symbol of the Apostles', could host still, at least, one

article Next concerning Jesus of Nazareth: here he is: 'by the service of John the Baptist, He fulfilled all justice.' One would put him between the facts- mysterious: 'He took flesh of the Virgin Mary and became

Man - and -'He suffered under Pontius Pilate'. Thus appropriation to the Father and the Spirit Saint: One of being creator and the Other to speak through the prophets, would also be profféssé for the Son of God who would bear on 'fulfillment' of all justice'. That other articles could still finding a place in the Creed is a subject that we Let's not go into it here. But it is important to know, in passing, and quote the opinion of theology scholasticism, which St. Thomas carried to almost perfection.

Saint Thomas Aquinas had rightly pointed out that a work appropriate to the Son in his divinity must be present in the articles of faith, as is the case for the Father and for the Holy Spirit. And yet no one after him, even if he never lacked Thomists, especially among the Dominicans, did not raise This question in history, it seems to me. Before the so many problems in our time for the Church who is living a great trial of faith Catholic.

In as a religious priest, I would like, before the Year of Consecrated Life to take up this challenge with grace of God and the power of the Holy Spirit. I already have it done during the Year of Faith in mother tongue, Polish; Now I want to do it in French. The Lord had made me born in Poland and live there for the first 30 years years and then, after calling me to the Mission to Poles Abroad, He has made me live in France for almost thirty-three years.

Saint Thomas, speaking of possible articles for the Creed, added also this about the Blessed Sacrament regretting in some way (this is my intuition), that this Creed does not evoke not the institution. Here is his opinion on the subject: 'The Sacrament of the Eucharist presents a difficulty special, more than many items. We should therefore make a special article about it. It therefore does not seem to be not only the number of

Articles is sufficient'. 2. work cited p.27 After this that is known of these creations in this field: 'Tantum ergo' for example with all its development which in France is recited between second reading and

The Gospel 'Corpus Christi' Sunday called now 'the Sollenity of the Blessed Sacrament of the Body and of the Blood of Christ'. Doctor Angelique speaks of articles of the Catholic Faith and those said in the Creed, during the celebration of the Eucharist Sunday. When you usually see, this is my overview, that we become so hurried at Mass that we would already like the shortest possible homelies and the Creed we choose most often is not the one of Nicaea-Constantinople as is always the case in Poland, e.g. one can ask the question: What is the interest of Add more articles to recite? World of today does not need it. What if it was The opposite?

Not should we consult the Holy Spirit first and not people, even in the time of the sacrosanct democracy. She wants to invade and rule everything in using the natural naivety of sinful man who surprises himself and is surprised so often by his very carelessness In the very serious subject and thanks that the concern directly from the antropological, philosophical point of view, phisic, biological and metaphisic, and continuing in moral and theological questions. Do we not see that the democracy put to ' all sauce' and 'wanting to be queen of everything and at all costs', it is changing very

quickly in totalitarian oppression?! That's what motivated Our theological research work, to meet the challenge opposition to this march towards modern paganism which feeds on sensations of all kinds enticing to First sight but blinding if we continue to obey it without reacting with resistance and thoughtful action in all areas, and why not theological too.

That What I would like to do here is to speak for give an account of the hope that has dwelt in me since my childhood and young age in my native Poland. And then until the age I am, in my age of adults who are already addressing some of the symptoms of old age and finally prepares to account for this passage earthly to the Creator of all and to the Redeemer Magnificent, among other things, of my soul what I hope repeating this invocation often: Jesus, I trust You! Which now brings me to take a closer look at the topic chosen for this study with you, my reader that the Lord Himself personally had chosen for this moment and for this place where you find, to speak to you eye to eye, from his mouth to your ears and especially from his Heart to the hold that he would like do the same.

'Take of me - says Jesus Christ - become my disciples, for I I am meek and humble of heart, and you will find rest.' Mt 11, 29. We have the opportunity to learn about Christ in this study, and there are ancient things in all of this, But there are also, you will be surprised, my friend, there will be things news you've never heard of, even if you es, maybe a Cardinal. It is the Cardinal precisely who was chosen by Jesus Himself to Read what I'm writing here and now somewhere on this earth in July 2014. He agreed to receive me in audience and he himself chose the date of the Feast of St. Thomas. Not the one we already have mentions. No, that of the life of Jesus, the Apostle, one of the Twelve, perhaps more than others Time the boss of all those who have doubts. What Providence with Divine Mercy. Second Sunday of Easter, instituted – as Jesus wanted to talk with a simple nun Hélène Kowalska– by Saint John Paul II in the Holy Year

when that same Sunday he proclaimed her a Saint. And See! Himself fourteen years later on April 27 last was in the presence of millions of people and worldwide by media services

honoured and by Pope Francis proclaimed a Saint. And that too More surprisingly, this had never happened. before in the presence of his faithful collaborator and successor even in the place of the Vicar of Christ in being now the venerable Pope Emeritus.

He Finally, I must go forward and therefore seek to explain how this new article about Jesus and the Credo had proposed itself and, I would say - gently imposed - on me, from the year 2000; I must say,

that Since then, I haven't dared to change the content of my prayer but during the Year of Faith, I did it by even writing to the Pope a Letter on this subject. Perhaps the Cardinal will be able to find

some leaves on the occasion of his visit to Rome, Perhaps it is in the archives, if we do not throw away letters in a trash can in the noble Institution. So my Letter of the religious priest should normally be Somewhere, right? I do not want to know. I don't have does my duty. This was imposed gently but strongly to me on December 19, 2012, as now it was imposed on me to write this long Letter-Study to my Father Bishop and Cardinal. From that day in my prayer of the Creed, I put it into personal practice, I also sometimes talk about it in my spiritual conversations with Christians and others, when a situation and a subject lends itself, I mean the subject of Message of Divine Mercy according to St. Faustina and according to St. John Paul II. In my

work pastoral also, in homilies when Saint is evoked. Jean-Baptiste, I immediately enter into the depth of this discovery related to the Image of the Saint Trinity. Rublev presented his version of this great mystery of the Christian faith and it is exposed on the ante-pedium of the high altar in the church from Sainte Eulalie to Bordeaux. But Jesus did perfectly better.

I notes first of all a special interest in this moment in Jesus' life when He asks Jean-Baptiste to do him a favor during his interview with him on the banks of the Jordan: 'Jesus, coming from Galilee, appears on the banks of the Jordan, and it comes to John to be baptized by him. John wanted to stop him and said: "It is I who need to make myself baptize by you, and you come to me!" But Jesus answered him, "For the time being, Let me do it; This is how we must accomplish perfectly what is right." So John leaves him do'. Mt 3:13-17 Sunday Missal, Liturgical Text official, presented by Pierre Jounel, Desclée-Mame, Paris 1981 p.515

I confess also that for some time I was surprised more in addition than between the Nativity and the Death of our Lord Jesus Christ in the profession of faith of each Sunday we glide without stopping, even a a brief moment, on his life so full and fulfilled of the Son of Man, of the Son of God. When at last I discovered and contemplated for so long the face of Christ of Mercy, painted according to his will expressed to Saint Faustina on February 22, 1922 at the Convent of Plock, I was grasped of the importance of deeper knowledge of the One that God sent.

I asked, 'Lord Jesus, I trust in You'. But make me know your Mystery more by depth. Tell me, how should I speak of your redemption? to human persons so that they can have the same trust and accept your mercy. I now understand more specifically than talking about mercy and Not to speak of justice would be to ignore the work divine fulfilled through the divine person of the Son of God.

In reading the work of St. Thomas Aquinas, his 'Sum' Theological', I discovered, what I already written above and I took a decision to do this research and give to my brothers and sisters in

humanity and in the Church my witness. I return to the choice of the Day of Saint Thomas, sometimes called unbelief. It is thus also allowed the Cardinal not to believe any follow-up to this Letter-Memoir and

all its content. But I hope he will take it into account. in his decisions concerning me and I will then be able to help him in his project called: 'The Springboard for Mission', after I had the joy of taking part in my better than the previous project: 'Four Years of the Missionary Journey'. 'Jesus, I have trust in You!' that I strongly recommend to all the world, whether one believers or not, it costs almost nothing and 'It can bring big'. Let's look at what Thomas says 'incredulous'. Did Jesus scold him? for his bizarre words and exclamation: 'No, I won't believe.' With Jesus the bypass of Speech and attitude is always possible, because for us and for our salvation He fulfilled all righteousness. Now it's time for the Eternal Father's mercy and that 'for the whole world' starting with St. Thomas: Don't be Not incredulous but believe. 'My Lord and my God!' First 'Jesus, I trust in You!' It is true that after Jesus said: Blessed who did not see and believed. But this applies only to a minority, I believe; and why Not until this year 1922 when at from his mystical talks with Sister Faustina he gave to him, and through her to the whole Church His commands: that an Image of Him be made and multiplied as much as possible throughout the earth, and when He promised to heed it by report to everyone who would so much like to see Him before He return in the glory of his Father.

I speaks from experience and I don't ask anyone to believe me this blind but just try to experience it for yourself. There are fewer and fewer fewer processions with the Blessed Sacrament:

Step crowds at the proposed Adoration. So why not experiencing this desired Message and Image and given by Him. He knew in advance how much images of all kinds will invade the being Human to these millennial crusaders. Watch the football match and do not try to look at images that we said pious and once the generation of grandpa and Grannies be gone we get rid of it for the replace with what? You know the answer, look at your room; really no place for Jesus or for the Blessed Virgin?, nor for a Saint such and such.. You have thousands and thousands in The TV plugged in or in your computer. I tell you propose this Image and Message and I must try to Convince slowly but surely for your own good. I I am persuaded and so many others alike. I know it's the Icon

Unique of the Holy Trinity given throughout history of Humanity which in Itself and by Itself summarizes all the Word of God contained in the Saints Scriptures and throughout the Tradition of

The Church and his Magisterium. And the discretion of what had happened passed to the Jordan which is called the Baptism of Jesus made the Book almost oblivion whole of Leviticus, remembering only a few very strong phrases such as: Be holy, for I am holy - saith the Lord. Fifty years ago the Second Vatican Council recalled that all Christians are called to holiness. But why then so few really sanctify themselves and if it is for example Of the Christian family, there is always more In addition to divorces?

He There is great difficulty in understanding what the Justice and holiness demanded of men and women from the Holy Trinity and given at the same time time on his part as a gift of God in the Spirit. This Gift is Unknown or very little known. There is a hunger for justice Everywhere.

The Eternal Father revealed His mercy, the Son fulfilled all righteousness and the Holy Spirit grants his charity, this is how I believe in the one God in three Persons to act in creation and redemption of humanity. Our study in fulfillment of justice through Jesus Christ therefore wants to be a service to the new evangelization. May the Lord God grant us the grace to carry out this work to His term with faith, hope and charity.

By the service of Jean Batiste. This will be the first chapter of our research. Who is he? How God prepared her to its mission? What service did he render to Jesus of Nazareth? Is his martyrdom a proclamation of the Passion of the Messiah? ?

Jesus Christ has fulfilled all Justice. This will be the central chapter of our study. The Son of God in the Old Testament. The Messianic promises given through the intermediary angels and prophets. The Incarnation of the Redeemer and his Work of Redemption. He came by water, by blood and by the Spirit. Baptism and the Mystery Pascal of Jesus Christ. Faith which is a victory over the world.

Jesus , I trust in You! T el se ra le tr ois ième e t last chapter of our pr ése nt ati o n. The m e ss a ge of Christ given to the m o nde d a ns the vi e mystic d e la s ainte Fa us tine. Can we dec rypt er l'i c one of Christ with rays that sor ten t of his Sack Co eur?

The great Pope John Paul II marked the history of humanity. He marked the lives of many world and mine in particular. I ask him to assist me in this work for the glory of God and the salvation of souls. His Life and his work have taught me much and especially what he has brought to the Church about Divine Mercy, in communion with Saint Faustina Kowalska, whom he beatified in 1993 and then canonized in the Holy Year

2000. He replied to my request to bless the TOTUS TUUS Association founded on6 August1996 and instituted on 1 November ofthe same year in Roubaix; it was to give thanks to God on occasion of his 50th anniversary of his priestly ordination.

According to Blessed John Paul II: 'The theologian does not can not be limited to preserving the treasures of doctrine inherited from the past. He should seek to understand and to express the faith of such that it can beaccepted by our contemporary way of thinking and speaking.' John Paul II. My meditation book, Edition du Rocher Jean-Paul Bertrand, 2004, for the French edition. p.71.

For support his pontificate and to take part in his pastoral work to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ that this Association came into being in France between6 August and1 November 1996. He promised to pray for her during her

Visitation from the tomb of Saint Luis Marie Grignon de Montfort. The new evangelization is a leitmotif of this Association of faithful, including the Statutes have been approved bythe Council of Lille, Monsignor Jean VILNET inthe same year 1996. I lived in the diocese of Lille: Roubaix – Lille-Dunkerque-Roubaix between 1982 and 1998, sixteen years of life the most beautiful. After two years in the Diocese of Autun 1998-2000 and then 10 years in Abscon- Escaudain between the Year 2000 and 2010 until September to find myself in Bordeaux since.

The STATUTES of the Catholic Association T O T U S T U U S

1. Declaration founder:

God Only we can give living faith, but we can give our testimony. Only God can give strong hope, But we can give our brothersconfidence. Only God can give love

genuine But we can learn to love one another. Only God can give peace to the world, but we can sow unity and concord. Only God can give courage and strength, but we can support those who fall. God alone is the only way and truth, but we can indicate them to others. God alone is the light eternal, but we can make it shine in the eyes of the men. God alone is the resurrection and the life, but we Let us give back to others the desire to live. God alone is sufficient for Himself, but He wanted to need our help.

2. The Objectives:

1/ Working for a better adherence of Christians to the Magistè re of the Church and of the Pope.

2/Search Strong benchmarks and identity firm Christian by meditation on the Holy Bible, of the Teaching of the Church and of the Pope's writings. 3/ Learning courage to live one's faith in a hard, marked world by indifference, unbelief, temptations sects, facilities etc.

4/ Be a place of relationship life:

• relation with God in personal, communal prayer, liturgical etc.

• relation with others by the qualities of respect, attention, service etc.

• relation with oneself through the blossoming of the personality with talents of heart, intelligence and body.

3. The Members' commitments:

1/ Praying to God with and through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Me re of mercy, that Man and the work of creation are returned to the Creator. 2/ Pray for the Pope, our Bishop and the Church; asking the Lord for new vocations priests, religious and missionaries.

3/ By a good participation in the Holy Eucharist, to have awareness of Christ's love for man and, through the Sacrifices, taking part in the unfathomable treasures of love and the pains that the mother of Jesus has offered to the Lord for the salvation of the human family.

4/ To glorify and adore Christ in the Blessed Sacrament, the great Mystof Faith, in which God, the Father, gives His Son to men to be saved.

5/ To live in the grace of God, to be aware of being child of God, imitate Jesus of the Gospel, work On its own character, to collaborate with the thanks to God, be docile to action inspiring the Holy Spirit, faithfully doing God's will.

TOTUS TUUS EGO SUM DOMINATES! TOTUS TUUS EGO SUM MARIA!

RESEARCH BIBLICAL ON THE SUBJECT OF DIVINE JUSTICE

By the service of Jean Batiste. This will be the first chapter of our research. Who is he? How God prepared her to its mission? What service did he render to Jesus of Nazareth? Is his martyrdom a proclamation of the Passion of the Messiah? ?

Jesus Christ has fulfilled all Justice. This will be the central chapter of our study. The Son of God in the Old Testament. The Messianic promises given through the intermediary angels and prophets. The Incarnation of the Redeemer and his work of redemption. He came by water, by blood and by the Spirit. Baptism and the Mystery Pascal of Jesus Christ. Faith which is a victory over the world.

Jesus I trust in You! This will be the third and last Chapter of our presentation. The message of Christ given to the world in the mystical life of Saint Faustina. How can we decipher the icon of Christ with rays that come out of his heart? The new evangelization is Functional. Let us be peacemakers.

Chapter I.

The prophet Malachi in the Bible is found as the last in The Old Testament. In his Book is announced the coming of the Messiah and his Predecessor. This Book is Promising of the great news of the

sacrifice new, by which God will receive the glory befitting his It is undeniable that John the Baptist was a member of the of the great ones and that it was quite close to the Christ, for the Lord says of him, "Among the sons of the woman he did not get up anyone taller "Mt 11,11.work cited p.37

The the greatest among men born of women, John the Baptist will have a service to render to the promised Messiah throughout the Elder Testament: it will be to baptize him in the waters of the Jordan when Both in human age they will spend thirty years. St Luke the Evangelist applied himself in the first part of his first book to give an account of it as accurately as possible. For Christ Jesus as well as for John the Baptist the stories of the Annunciation and the birth of the One and the Other are presented in an obvious narrative way. John the Baptist is of the priestly descendants of the high priest Aaron, the brother of Moďse. Both on the side of his father Zacharias than from his mother Elizabeth. Thus its service to prepare the paths to the Savior of the world find its roots throughout the liturgical worship of God

all throughout the history of the People of Israel that God has brought out of slavery and misery in the country of Egypt. God's First Covenant with His People near Sinaď Mountain and the gift of the

Law will have their applications in the worship exercised first in the Tent of the Meeting during the crossing of the desert and then in the places chosen by God for it, before it is in the Temple of Jerusalem the priestly office is organized according to what God commanded the People of Israel in Leviticus.

The Annunciation is made by the angel Gabriel to Zechariah in this Temple of Jerusalem six months before that of the same angel will bring to Mary, the Blessed Virgin in Nazareth in Galilee. In his message God does

say to the acting high priest that his prayer was Answered; his wife sterile by herself and in his old age will give him a son: he must name him John since 'God gives grace'. The angel describes in advance its mission to call for the conversion of the sons of Israel and preparation for the Lord of a perfect People; The Spirit and the power of the prophet are also evoked for that one can see all that the Old Testament has prepared by the great prophets for the reconciliation between God and humanity may it take place achieve through the New Alliance and Eternal in Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus explains it in

this sentence: 'The Law and the Prophets have worked until John; since him the Kingdom of God suffers violence and it is violent people who enter it'.verifier Ev. He is also announced that John the Baptist will be filled with the Spirit Saint already from the womb.

Has his birth his father Zechariah himself will prophesy on the child of the things that will be accomplished at the edges of the Jordan thirty years later: You will make known to the People the Salvation that will be accomplished by a remission of one's sins thanks to the mercy of our God. This divine mercy prophesied here by Zechariah we find it in the message of Christ given to the world and to the Church in Life

mystic of Saint Faustina. 'The Sun rising in the top that visits us to enlighten those who live in the shadows and in the darkness of death to direct them towards the way of Peace' is Jesus Christ whose John the Baptist will make known the presence and the work 'Behold the Lamb of God who takes away sin of the world'.

The High Priests of the Old Covenant had a mission to take away the sins of the People of Israel by sacrifices of animals offered, whose blood was to be poured and carried before the Lord God, in the holy saints. Before being slaughtered, the animal 'received' sins through imposition Hands and confession made in the name of sinners by the high priest. God forgave sins because that the priest and the people believed in the Word of God who set up these religious provisions.

It's faith in the future 'Lamb of God' which gave 'a effectiveness' to these sacrifices in the will of God to show his mercy to all those who believe in Him and obey those He has envoy

like prophets, priests and kings. Some prophets were also priests, and John the Baptist were the last and greatest among them at the same time as representative of all humanity – the most

men born of women – as the Lord has said Jesus in the Gospel. As High Priest and representative of humanity by the service that Divine Providence had foreseen the Lamb of God will receive and take upon Himself the sin of the world for remove it and atone for it by his Paschal Mystery: his Passion and his Death on the Cross and his Resurrection will open for all who have faith the source of justification and justification redemption.

We let's continue this subject of John the Baptist is his life and mission, once all that concerns Jesus Christ has been established and His work of justification: He has fulfilled all righteousness. It's The central subject of this exhibition.

Chapter II.

The Holy Scripture in the First Evocation of Salvation speak of God offering Adam and Eve, sinners, the clothing made of the skin of the animal. The payment of the Blood was therefore necessary for the religion of the fig leaves with which the man and woman have covered themselves after their fault is replaced by the initiative divine to bring humanity one true religion which is Christianity.

The Caîn and Abel, the children of first parents have recourse to religion, but Scripture presents us with a difference that will lead to the murder of Abel by his brother Cain. The religious practice of the latter does not could bring him victory over sin since he was no animal blood spilled hanging that he offered his worship to God. On the other hand, Abel the made in his offering where there was the blood of the lamb and the fat went up in smoke pleasing to the Lord. The transmission of the Faith was therefore not done with the same results between Adam and Eve and their first two Son. Cain's assassination of his brother Abel is The first martyr of humanity for the cause of true faith that God has offered to this humanity in its Covenant, by his mercy and in his Justice who is Jesus Christ.

In the first judgment that Sacred Scripture still presents in the Garden of Eden, after God had sought to meet the guilty, there is an announcement of this Jesus Christ and his virginal Mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary. We Let us say it, of course in the context of Faith Christian. Our intention is not to redo everything This speculation whose exegesis criticizes and The scientist also asks that this be taken into account.

This Woman announced and found also in the Apocalypse of Saint John, the Seed and the Descendant who will crush the head of the Snake etc. God is making a promise here to send the Redeemer, this is evident and this account Biblical ends with the evocation of a gesture Divine to cover the first human sinners with a solid garment, proclamation of the perfect and generous Salvation at the price of the blood of the Son of God who for us and for our salvation, conceived as the Son of the Man of the Holy Spirit, took flesh of the Virgin Mary and became Man. We believe that, through the service of John the Baptist, 'He came to fulfill all righteousness' and suffered under Pontius Pilate, was Crucified; He died and was buried; he descended into hell; on the third day He is resurrected deaths etc.

God which covers sinners with new and solid garment, to the place of attempts to cover themselves by their own means where The 'natural' means of fig leaves are to say the religion of human invention that it let it be, This is the good news that brings the divine revelation of the Old and the New Wills.

The The sin of the world is a great injustice. So big that only God's righteousness can be a valid answer and valid. The Word of God made flesh accomplishes this Justice in the World and Its History: The Plan of Salvation Planned and announced by God, the Holy Trinity, will be revealed and will be fulfilled in the life and mission of the Redeemer divine, our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world, by his Baptism in the Jordan and annihilates it by his Passion on the Cross.

The Christianity is the fruit of the work of the Messiah, who in asking John the Baptist for service explains to him that 'We must do all that is right' and on the moment of exhaling on Golgotta, he says that 'everything is accomplished'. The words of Christ crucified: 'I have thirst', had for me, before this study, only one quite natural sense of a man who suffers in his body the lack of water, where a spiritual sense in the sense of wanting to 'save souls'. The Evangelist noted, however, that Jesus said it so that Scripture would is accomplished. A link between this event- mystery and the announcement of the Book Leviticus, where a goat that

has received upon him the sins of Israel during Dom Kippur annual then was fired in the desert to die of hunger and thirst, I did not Not seen before. Now this is obvious to me. It was necessary to let all that has been announced be fulfilled about the Savior of the world. Like so many other references from the Book of the Prophet of Isaiah on the Servant suffering and Jeremiah or Ezequiel.

The The question is, therefore, which must be asked about the fulfillment of all justice that is realized first during John the Baptist's service at Jesus Christ.

The John the Baptist's reaction tells us the novelty of The event and ignorance of it to this statement. John is surprised by Jesus' request and everything First he wants to refuse to do this. Jesus insists and John gives in and 'lets him do it'. This 'the lets it happen' says the essential in the work of the Salvation which is a work of God alone, but the service required by God to those called and sent to It also finds its place.

That is not insignificant in this way of reading the Gospel to return to the past to meditate their first meeting at the Visitation of Mary, the Mother of Christ fulfilled on behalf of Elizabeth, who had place thirty years ago in Ein-Karem. The service of God incarnated to John, the son of the high priest of Israel, Zechariah, was made on this occasion; child A was filled with the Holy Spirit to be one day his Predecessor and Baptiser on the banks of the Jordan river.

One times this service rendered to the Savior of the world, John the Baptist the will proclaim 'the Lamb of God who takes away sin of the world' twice in two days that follow. And some of his disciples will become those of Christ himself, of the Apostles. In particular, we must hear John, son of Zebedee, who relates this proclamation of his first master in his Gospel and speaks in him and his Letters and also in the Apocalypse of this subject that interests us in a fairly explicit and clear way. Like what in Jesus' talks with a certain Nicodemus on the new birth 'of water and the Spirit' where in his Letrre written towards the end of his life 'that Jesus came by water, blood, and Spirit; his testimony on true faith, once given to the Church of Christ, is victorious over the world to condition that all three be taken into consideration elements together.

Not not separate what God has united, the Incarnation, the Baptism, Life and Death, Resurrection and Glory of Christ Jesus, but firmly and faithfully believe in all this Revelation is the way to salvation. It's he too, who stood at the foot of the Cross of Christ and saw 'Water and blood' come out of the side transpersed by the centurion's spear. He gives the story very accurate and ensures that his testimony is true.

Back now to our main subject: 'He has fulfilled any justice, or – in other translation – any Which is right. Take away and take upon oneself all sins Men, from the first to the last, in the entire history of Humanity, this could not be accomplished by a man.

He This required God himself. It is not the will human, even that of Christ, Son of Man, who Saves; but the Divine Will; that of the Father and the Son and of the Holy Spirit. And it is eternal. God has decided to save us in its etornity. But he It was necessary to bear witness to this in the time which is the ours, from this history given to us to Live once and for all to everyone.

For manifest and fulfill this Decision of God, the Messiah of God has revealed Himself to Humanity and bore witness to the Truth. He who is of truth hears his voice and believes in Him and His work of the Gospel.

John Baptiste said he was small compared to the One he announced ; not to be 'worthy to untie his sandals'. He also announced a terrible judgment that This would exert on the rebellious world; But, he had no idea. of the service he was going to render him, being the descendant of the high priest Aaron, as well by the side of his father than his mother. All provisions given by God of Israel to Moses and his brother Aaron concerning the system of Forgiveness and The Atonement, accurately described in the Book of Leviticus, were only the shadow of what the One who asks him to represent would accomplish The earthly priest

and all mankind sinned and passed all the sins of all history on HIM, the Céléste priest, according to the order of Melchizedek.

The Letter to the Hebrews written by the Holy Spirit and someone he chose to do it side human, gives the very broad and clear explanation, to Meditate ceaselessly to grasp everything we want ourselves Say here in this research and meditation. So that the Passion of Jesus Christ be just and holy, it was necessary that He or first the One who was baptized by John. Otherwise, his death would be a 'terrible injustice'. If We take it like this, it is likely that we have not the true Faith.

The Christian faith begins in the Jordan River. The Syrian Naaman had ordered by Elisha to immerse himself in it seven times to be cleansed from his leprosy. It does not wanted to do it not first, but at the instigation of His servant, he fulfilled it and his skin became like that of a small child. Before that, under the leadership of Joshua, the Hebrew people from the slavery of Egypt had been accompanied by an Ark of the Covenant worn by priests. Crossing the Jordan River was a miracle. It is a unique miracle that Baptism of Jesus who takes away the sins of the men. If you believe in it, you are liberated and saved, Otherwise, we remain with his faults and this new fault of not having believed in the Good News.

Jesus took up from John the Baptist the call to conversion; but he added to it this invitation to believe in the Gospel of his Baptism first and his Passion afterwards, by the service of his Apostles and his Church throughout the years Centuries.

When a paralytic is welcomed by Jesus at Capernaum, he hear the words: 'My son, your sins are forgiven.' In his explanation to the Pharisees and teachers of the Law, Jesus announces everything simply a new era for humanity, Because justice has been operational in his enthronement as Messiah at the Jordan, with the manifestation of the Holy Spirit in kind of dove and Father in his voice from heaven. This is my beloved Son in which I put all my favor. The appropriation of the Son, as a Divine Person, is revealed as fulfilling the whole justice, as God, to be able to bear the good news of the new creation.

In the Synagogue of his city Nazareth, Jesus gives widely Explanation of the fulfillment of prophecy of Isaî on his ministry of the Priest, Prophet and King. Already appeared a sign of his future Passion, It was not yet the time when everything will be accomplished according to the Scriptures that concern him, but this has become since his Baptism his primary concern to complete the work that the Father had confided to him.

When the need to fill the void, after Judas 'is gone of his way' the Apostles who, at the intervention of Peter, seeks to replace him, applicants should be in living experience of this event of the Baptism of Christ, and Mathias is one of them and God chose him to serve Christ the Redeemer, Resurrected.

Which is our understanding in the Faith of the Baptism of Christ Jesus? The discretion of this Mystery served to the accomplishment of the salvation of humanity without the Advairsaire of God and men realizes this. If he knew, he would never have crucified the Son of Man. And the great of this passing world would not have not helped to open the doors of the Kingdom of heaven. But, once the Mystery is operated, Is it still necessary to hide this moment in history when the Heaven opened to welcome the inhabitants of Heaven, in company of Angels, to give eternal thanks to God who alone is Good?

Since This historic event and which exceeds all earthly history because Jesus and true God and the perfect Man, the question of sins gave way place to the question of Faith in the Good News. Justice was performed between Baptism and Cross' so that mercy may be acting in all times and wherever people live in their earthly pilgrimage. Sins should no longer be a problem: Since God has made through all who believe in Jesus Christ and his Gospel. The only problem is the announcement of the Christ and his Gospel to everyone who lives in this world.

But Is it enough to speak of his Cross and to silence his Baptism? His death then will appear so atrôce and terribly unfair. Instead of preaching the righteousness of God, one could preaching human injustice in the face of this Passion holy and merciful. The natural side of these The sufferings of the Messiah could be so imposed, that – like the disciples of Emaûs- we could see each other reproach being slow to believe everything Moses and the Prophets and Psalms announced about the Hello.

Jesus by incarnating took charge of human nature for the lead to repair and transfiguration at through his earthly life. The granting of one's will human with the Divine Will that operates in Nature divine unique and common of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, is not without pain and suffering that Justice requires divine. But, since Jesus fulfills this righteousness and welcomes these sorrows and sufferings, we can be justified and saved by faith in Him. And by Him, with He and in Him we can now give thanks to God and receive the glory of God, like his adopted children.

He It is therefore important to discover and rejoice in this Moment, when our situation as sinners was overthrown into children of God; Through our baptism we we are immersed in the baptism of Jesus, sign of His death and resurrection. The sign here is at understand how we have to understand everything related to Sacraments. Faith leads to the sacraments: it is the device necessary. Without faith, one cannot please God. Faith – as we have already recalled – makes us victors of the world. As true faith tells us connects with Jesus who came by water, by blood and by the Spirit; if we want

be free from our sins by faith, let us live the encounter with Him on the banks of the Jordan, at the moment He chosen to receive our sins. After only, let us go to the place of his Death on the Cross, and that

in the Sacrament of the Church the Spirit comes to rejoice us of the Peace that God gives, since the Resurrection of the Messiah and Lord Jesus.

Otherwise How we will understand all the teaching of the Gospel, the words and deeds of Christ? If he It was necessary to wait for his death to be saved his mission did not would not be the gift of faith but only of hope. His life would be part of the Old Testament and not the New Testament. This is how far John the Baptist – teaches Jesus – that the Prophets and the Law have for each other Exercised. After him, forgiveness is proclaimed and offered and the Kingdom of God can be seized; each who believes he receives him at home and comes into possession of his treasures Innouîs. The Kingdom of God is in your midst, it is near; And it is finally in you. Don't wait until see visibly – Jesus teaches us.

For Conclude this second chapter, let's go back to the last Question about John the Baptist from chapter one. Is it his death a announcement of Christ's death? The priests of the Elder Covenant passed the sins of themselves and of the people they represented before God on the animals that they then had to slaughter and with blood of these animals seek God's forgiveness.

It is God who told them to do it this way. Believing the Word of God and make the prescribed arrangements announced what was to be accomplished in the Paschal Mystery of Christ. John the Baptist had nothing to do with the animals before God but with God himself. His service was so great and unique that to give one's life afterwards for the Christ's name was to become great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

He is not greater than John the Baptist among born men of a woman. By giving his life for the One he baptized John the Baptist takes part in the Passion of Christ with the Mother of Christ, Saint John and so many others of the time before and according to Christ, beginning with Abel, the just. As we have already spoken of him, killed by his brother Caîn. The martyrs of the Faith of all history is there to bear witness to God who does justice and who shows mercy. Divine Justice and Divine mercy are like revelation of Love and brings us closer to God.

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What for Was it necessary to give the world and the Church this message of Mercy at the beginning of the twentieth century by the service of Saint Faustina? In this last chapter of Our study, we hope to provide an answer which will seem possible to us. It took several dozen years, of course, and it still needed special circumstances for this to result in the institution of Divine Sunday

Mercy and the Church's acceptance of the Image and prayers related to the initiated apostolate by the life and message of this saint.

The pale blue rays and red rays are the peculiarity of this Icon willed and requested by Jesus to Sister Faustina in her mystical and spiritual talks of her religious life in the Congrégation de Notre-Dame de mercy. Her Little Diary she left By order of his confessor to posterity we allows us to know a lot about this old and new cult, inspired by the Old and New Testaments.

We We limit here to the single subject of the rays on this image and on the inscription: 'Jesus, I trust in You!' To the question put to Jesus by the Sister Faustina, the confessor's request: What do these rays mean? The Jesus' answer is, 'Water that justifies and the blood that gives life.' For blood we Easily understand that this is his death on the Cross. But that water signifies its Baptism, are we So ready to recognize it?

There you go the reason for this in-depth study on this subject. We have tried to bring some elements to it of Sacred Scripture so that our trust in Jesus and his work be more fervent and greater by contemplations of this merciful Image of Jesus.

Epilogue

Jesus Christ 'will return in glory to judge the living and the living. dead'. God, the Father, transmitted to his Son to exercise all judgment, since he is the Son of man. This is a revelation of the Gospel according to St. John. The disciple 'whom Jesus loved', present both at the Baptism of the Jordan and at the foot of the Cross of Jesus, received in a vision of The Apocalypse the exposition of the prerogatives of the 'King of kings and of the Lord of lords'. Appropriate the Divine justice as the central and particular exercise according to this that Scripture teaches is a matter of faith Christian.

The divine mercy from the Eternal Father cannot to exercise other than in perfect accord with the divine justice and truth. Christ Jesus declared: I am the way, the truth and Life; no one goes to the Father without going through Me. In wanting to draw closer to this divine revelation, We meditated on the fact of the desired rays on the image of Christ with the inscription: 'Jesus, I have trust in You' and it became clear to us that 'Jesus fulfilled all righteousness' and He is truly our God and our Savior.

The Lord to whom all power was given to heaven and on earth. The new evangelization is in walk from his words that end the Gospel according to St. Matthew, who puts the Baptism of Jesus as the fulfillment of all righteousness, as we have meditated in this study. So let's go, from all over the nations make disciples by baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.

I I am increasingly convinced that if there were no God who isthe Holy Trinity we could not be saved. Today's Gospel Reveals And says this in a clear and amazing way: We are witnessing a conversation between the Father and the Son about us and we learn that life eternal consists in the knowledge of this truth who bears the name of Jesus Christ: The only God; The real God finds in Him, Jesus Christ a revelator and mediator before Him for the cause of men and before the men for the glory of God. Mutual glorification between the Father and the Son give eternal life to men who believe in the Holy Trinity and the work done by the Son on earth at the request of the Father who is in the heavens. The content of this conversation is a revelation of what will happen at the time of Ascension and the last Part of this interview becomes a prayer on our behalf.

God the Son, pray to God, the Father, to be propitious and favorable because the Son was kind enough to leave for some time His glory and descend to earth to recover the lost property that the Father entrusted to He to find her and bring her back to heaven. Everything happens in God, between the Father and the Son, between the Son and the Father and yet it is we who are the ones Large beneficiaries: Only one condition is reported and raised with respect to us: They recognized – said Jesus to his Father- that all that you have me given comes from you, for I gave them the words that you had given me: they received them; they Have

Really recognized that I have come from you; and they have thought it was you who sent me. It would say little on our side and yet this is counted for many in the eyes of God of him

do trust as to one true God this Most Holy Trinity. And whereis the Holy Spirit in this conversation between the Son and the Father? He is the discreet Author in action of the Spoken Words and revealed at the same time there is very long time at the time whenJesus passed from this world to his Father but Also here is now when what was said and written is read and pronounced, taken up and explained to our own minds; word of mouth and touching our intelligences to sink into our hearts of Believers; Christians. Following Peter, John, James and Andrew and all the other apostles and some wives including Mary, mother of Jesus and his families of whom He wanted on earth to draw its origins.

This Holy Spirit is at the origin of his humanity as the Angel Gabriel announced to this Virgin eternelle and Mother only of a kind. Exactly It is now there with a new Matenité Linked with his divine maternity. This Conversation we talked about earlier between the Son and the Father if it were not what it was if it weren't for his commitment to all this History concerning this divine glory: left first and then resumed once the work of saving souls accomplished human. It is she who what she had suffered at the foot of the Cross of Christ Jesus her Son, who becomes a first and privileged confidante of what the Holy Trinity wishes to entrust to every humanity.

THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY HOLDS A GREAT PLACE

Since she has communed with the sufferings of Christ it has given birth to us all in the pain of her immaculate heart for a new intended when his glory will be revealed with that of his Son since the Spirit of glory, the Spirit of God rested in her first on earth: she who was proclaimed full of grace as a Virgin and Blessed by Elizabeth as Mother of her Lord. It is she who is

Become the land of the living to whom the Lord first showed his face. This last evokes the scene of the Visitation is suitable for this last day of the month of but since it is this enjoyment that the Church remembers of this mystery of the rosary. It's also the day for me particular; It's the anniversary of my ordination priestly thirty-six years ago at the Cathedral of Poznan in Poland. I thank the Lord for this grace; pray for me; The events whose events we reread Some evocative and characteristic features are not not just from the past; No; Everything is worn and updated by the Holy Spirit whose new one we implore Acquisitions. Our glory shared by Christ to his friends come from the Father by the Spirit.

Grace In this name of Christian our nobility is affirmed and confirmed in any situation whatsoever and in particular in a situation of being poorly regarded by this world that wants to free itself from the name of Christ and even would like to dismiss him away from him as inappropriate to his insane tastes and pleasure. May it change! The TOTUS TUUS Association wants to contribute to this conversion of the world and its salvation, with the grace of God! To conclude, I declare that I am personally beneficiary of this revelation in my young age looking - in my church original parish of Saint Anthony of Padua in Gołkowice in Poland - this Image of Christ posed just at side of the Altar of the Sacred Heart, side right of the Tabernacle and I was already attracted to the priestly vocation because of it; the Lord knew that it would be my special mission to proclaim with conviction constantly drawn from this prayer that Jesus had also willed below his feet: 'Jesus, I trust in You!'

There you go The Cardinal and my Father Bishop my contribution to the new stage of life of the Diocese of Bordeaux, which you called 'The springboard for Mission'. The Lord Jesus Christ wants Society to of Christ, of whom I am a member, participates in it through my pastoral service at the Polish Immigration and in the service of the Bordeaux Centre sector. By the goodness of the Lord, after having prayed that

Good God gives me some proof that He still wants me to Bordeaux, I received two: one 'a contrario' that you know, and that's why I asked of You meet and the second is that You have, by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, or circumstances providential chosen for this Meeting on the Day of the Feast of St. Thomas the Apostle, July 3, 2014. Third proof will come from You, I am sure always in the trust in the One who repeats this word to me once again from fifty years ago: 'Come and follow Me!' And in this birthday I give Him this answer that He has learned by the simple instrument of its Image-Icon of the Mercy: 'Jesus, I trust in You!' So, I will follow You always and everywhere. Help me for that'.

In memory of my Parents

+Janina and +Antoine

Eminence I have suffered during these last three months, the Lord in is a witness and maybe some people from my entourage. But, I see today that this suffering was admitted by Providence that I dare to speak to you of what the Lord wants me. I have to be that spark here of his Divine Mercy. In this period of suffering I was purified and at the same time time I experienced the great power of the Word of God in the

Liturgy. The Lectio Divina, I found it 'specially written' for me'! And I noticed concretely that the The Lord supported me and so did my Superior. A lot of people, to whom I had asked, prayed For me.

That the Lord rewards them all. Thank you, especially to the Thanks of God, obtained for me by the Blessed Virgin Mary: Mother of God and our Mother! The intercession of the St. John Paul II and St. Faustina were not lacking! Right now I have just told you that I rejoice in having suffered all this trial for the Name of Jesus and for his Gospel. I am at peace and confident for the future. Since for fifty years I had been contemplating this Image of Christ and this Image of the Holy Trinity and that I was looking to know the meaning of all this in the light of Faith, a Once things were clear to me, I could say to myself: Now: I know! I'll go see my Cardinal:The Lord Himself Revealed to me from a young age may I be the bearer of his message and this Image! The devil does not wanted to let me stand before You with this old woman and always new revelation and this proposal: He reacted strongly, right up to the display public of my departure: but, thank God, I have Quite quickly recognized his 'trademark': Clandestinity and pressure on my liberation from conscience. He wanted me to stop repeating

this prayer: Jesus, I trust in You! But I, I am determined to do it always and wherever my Provincial will tell me. He told me to stay in Bordeaux. Therefore I will obey him according to the Rules of Life of my Congregation. I am sorry that You will Agree with you.

POST SCRIPTUM

It was a long time ago, and it seemed to me to be yesterday: and Yet it was in the sixties of the last century. I'm really prepared now and ready to do so, provided I am permitted and may the Church give me her blessing for the realize. That's it, Cardinal and my Father Bishop what I expect from You. To ask me only to do what the Lord wants me to do by giving me Your Episcopal Blessing, as You did in June four years ago by placing Your Autograph on the Gospel of Saint Luke in Polish. I will wait for your reply quietly and trusting in the Lord!

Eminence I humbly ask You:

• from entrust this LETTER to someone who could give it correct from a theological and pastoral point of view and Other: style, grammar, etc. and possibly do so Edit by the diocesan service.

• to write your word about this LETTER, if you find this well, and attach it to the same publication.

• from grant me 'imprimatur' permission for the publication, and to be able to do my apostolic work according to the content of this MEMORY, giving me Your Blessing. The Lord is my witness, Your Eminence, whom I have opened my heart before You and what I have written and said is in accordance with my conscience of man, of Christian, and religious priest. I thank Him, 'My Lord and my God', to be able to speak before his Vicar at Bordeaux, the eminent member of the Sacred College. With all my gratitude for this Audience with You that the Lord organized according to his great Love for You and for me. Has Him be the Glory. Amen.