We believe that Christ is risen and alive. What does that faith mean to us today? Is Jesus so much alive to us that we can meet him personally in prayer, listening and speaking to him as a friend to a friend, heart to heart? Do we touch his wounds in those wounded in life […]
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Today we celebrate the most important of all the Christian Feasts, the Resurrection. The Resurrection of Jesus Christ and our own resurrection in the future. But this cannot be isolated from what has gone before. Actually the three great feasts – three days are all of a piece: Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday
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The blessing of the Easter food, or the “Swieconka” is a tradition dear to the heart of every Pole. Being deeply religious, he is grateful to God for all His gifts of both nature and grace, and, as a token of this gratitude, has the food of his table sanctified with the hope that spring,
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For five weeks of Lent we have been preparing, by works of charity and self-sacrifices, for the celebration of our Lord’s paschal mystery. Today we celebrate the Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion the first day of the Holy Week. On this day the Church celebrates Christ’s entrance into Jerusalem to accomplish his Paschal Mystery.
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We celebrate the 5th Sunday of Lent – the Passion Sunday. Today more like in any time we realize what mean, that unless a grain of wheat dies, it produces much fruit. We saw Jesus who headed for his own dead with great determination, because he knew that this is for the freedom of all
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This Sunday gives us the explanation what the love of God means to us. In our churches and in most of our homes the crucifix is given a place of honor. Does that mean that we have to love crosses? No, but it says that we believe in our crucified Lord and that we love
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In the Lent we more pray, more fast and more make almsgiving. These three things of lent penance help us to understand our situation. Some times we realize our sinful position some times we are in the propaganda of our sin and we think that we are free from sins and we don’t need salvation.
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The Lenten Season is the time for our preparation for the great mystery of our faith which is the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ and our own resurrection. From the beginning of the Church this time was the very special preparation for baptism, which is the same as resurrection – the journey from the
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The new period of the Liturgical Year of Lent we started on Ash Wednesday. This period is very important for us because in this time we prepare ourselves by reflection and penance to the great feast of our salvation, which is Easter. Each year God gives us this season when we prepare to celebrate the
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Ash Wednesday Service February 22, 2012 7:00 P.M. The service will include the Celebration of the Holy Eucharist and the traditional imposition of Ashes. …for dust you are and to dust you will return… Gen 3:19
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