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Letter for Holy Family Sunday: The family as a path to holiness
For the vast majority of Christians, living bound by the sacrament of marriage and with a family is the way on which they fulfil their call to holiness and participate in the life and mission of the Church – we read in the Letter of the Council for Family of the Polish Bishops’ Conference for Holy Family Sunday, which this year falls on 26th December.
Primate of Poland: The Church needs holy priests
The attitude of the Polish clergy during World War II, their faithfulness and steadfastness in times of persecution up to the literal sacrifice of their priestly lives, to martyrdom, undoubtedly grew out of a spirit of courageous and self-sacrificing service to God and brothers," said Polish Primate Archbishop Wojciech Polak, who presided at Mass at the National Shrine of St Joseph in Kalisz as part of the celebrations of the Day of the Martyrdom of the Polish Clergy.
Archbishop Grzegorz Ryś among new cardinals
Archbishop Grzegorz Ryś, Metropolitan of Łódź, was among the new cardinals whose names were announced today by Pope Francis after the Angelus prayer. The consistory, at which the Holy Father will present the cardinal insignia to the twenty-one cardinal nominees, will occur on 30 September this year.
Contact group of the Episcopates of Poland and Germany met in Augsburg
The annual meeting of the contact group of the Bishops' Conferences of Poland and Germany took place on April 25-27. Bertram Maier, bishop of the Augsburg diocese, hosted the meeting. This year, the Augsburg diocese is celebrating the 1100th anniversary of the bishop ordination of St. Ulric, the Patron Saint of the diocese, and the 1050th of his death. The jubilee is celebrated under the motto: Hear with the heart.
Cardinal Nycz at the Feast of Thanksgiving: As Christians, we should be able to forgive
The main intention of the Feast of Thanksgiving this year is to pray for a just peace in Ukraine, as well as among us, in our homeland, and in our hearts. Mutual forgiveness is necessary. As Christians we should be able to forgive – said Cardinal Kazimierz Nycz, Metropolitan of Warsaw, at the beginning of the Holy Mass in the Shrine of Divine Providence during the 15th Feast of Thanksgiving.
