The President of the Bishops' Conference and the Polish Episcopate's Delegate for Polish Emigration Expressed Solidarity with the Polish Community After the Fire in the Church at Glasgow
"We assure you of the spiritual closeness and solidarity of the Church in Poland with the pastors and all the faithful for whom St. Simon's Church has for decades been a place of worship and at the same time an important center for the Polish community," wrote Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki, president of the Polish Bishops' Conference, and Bishop Wiesław Lechowicz, the Polish Episcopate's Delegate for Polish Emigration, in a letter to Father Marian Łękawa, rector of the Polish Catholic Mission in Scotland.
We are publishing the full text of the letter:
Warsaw, 29 July 2021
Dear Father,
We were saddened by the news about the fire in St. Simon's Church in Glasgow, one of the most important Polish churches in Scotland.
On behalf of the Polish Bishops' Conference, we assure you of the spiritual closeness and solidarity of the Church in Poland with the pastors and all the faithful for whom St. Simon's Church has for decades been a place of worship and at the same time an important center for the Polish community.
We trust that this difficult experience, lived in the spirit of faith, will contribute to an even greater consolidation of the Polish community in Glasgow and throughout Scotland, and that it will arouse in all believers a heightened sense of responsibility for the Polish cultural and religious heritage beyond the borders of our homeland.
With our best regards and pastoral blessing,
+ Stanisław Gądecki
Metropolitan Archbishop of Poznan
President of the Polish Bishops' Conference
+ Wiesław Lechowicz
Delegate of the Polish Bishops' Conference for the Polish Emigration
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Reverend
Father Marian Łękawa
Polish Catholic Mission in Scotland
(translation: s. P. Nau / Office for Foreign Communication of the Polish Bishops' Conference)
