Under the slogan “Baptism Gift of Charity”, the Temple of Divine Providence in the fields of Wilanow celebrated today will be IX Thanksgiving. The temple will be introduced relics. Maximilian Kolbe. Mass for the participants celebrated at noon the Archbishop of Athens, Sevastianos Rossolatos.
Password for this year’s Thanksgiving “Baptism Gift of Mercy” refers to the ongoing in the Church of the Extraordinary Jubilee Charity and celebrated in the year 1050. anniversary of Polish Christianity. On this occasion, a ceremony in the fields of Wilanow to the temple will be introduced relics. Maximilian Maria Kolbe – a witness of Mercy.
As the Metropolitan of Warsaw Cardinal. Kazimierz Nycz, this year’s Thanksgiving, held in the Year of Charity, will be attended by employees and proteges various works of mercy, which operate in Poland centers, nursing homes, support centers or branches of Caritas. – This is the place where we share compassion with those who need it most – said the Archbishop.
The celebration will begin with a pilgrimage to the relics of St. Maximilian Kolbe, who passed through the streets of the Royal Road to the Temple of Divine Providence. There, at noon under the leadership of the Catholic Archbishop of Athens, Archbishop. Sevastianosa Rossolatosa celebrated will be Mass, during which it will be the act of entrusting and Thanksgiving.
– Athens Metropolitan from the perspective of the bishop of a small and poor country, which is experiencing big trouble for sure tell us about sharing the mercy of refugees, as those who need mercy – said the Metropolitan of Warsaw.
Sunday’s ceremony will be a dress rehearsal before the opening of the temple of the faithful, which is scheduled for November, as well as from the preceding World Youth Days in the Dioceses. In the fields of Wilanów will be the main meeting young people who a week before the meeting with the pope in Krakow come to the Archdiocese of Warsaw.
During the IX Thanksgiving is not a lot of attractions for children. At. 14.00 The town will be open for children. The program includes family game “Journey to the Kingdom of Heaven” and Moving Theatre XXII century and performances by artists. About 15.00 traditionally are released into the sky balloons with the words “Thank you”. He then starts Festival “The Power of Good”. Featuring: Little Choir of Great Hearts, New Life’m, Highlander Brass Band with Skomielna Black, Beata Bednarz and Army.
Conclusion IX of Thanksgiving will be at. 21.37 prayer followed by illumination of the Temple of Divine Providence.
Thanksgiving was established in 2008. Archbishop. Kazimierz Nycz. It refers directly to the historical tradition, is in fact a continuation of initiatives undertaken in the days of the Four (1792). During the meeting, parliament decided to make a special votive offering to God in gratitude for the possibility of adoption of the Constitution of May 3. This gift was to be the creation of the Temple of Supreme Providence. Then the plan was not realized because of the partitions.
Work on the construction of the Temple was taken shortly after independence in 1918. With another initiative of building the Temple occurred in 1989. Polish Primate Cardinal. Jozef Glemp. It is currently under construction as a vote for the Constitution of May 3, regaining independence and the pontificate of John Paul II.
The structure emerging in the fields of Wilanow in Warsaw on three floors is fit Pantheon of Great Poles, the Temple of Divine Providence and the museum Pope John Paul II and Cardinal. Stefan Wyszynski, the Primate of the Millennium. The construction of the temple is financed from fundraising conducted in the churches of the Archdiocese of Warsaw and the neighboring diocese of, grants and contributions from donors. So far they have been collected more than 100 million.
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