Thanksgiving. The procession passed through the streets of Warsaw to the Temple of Divine Providence [PHOTOS] – Gazeta Wyborcza

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Sunday is celebrated IX Festival Thanksgiving. Procession on this occasion went in the morning with a pl. Pilsudski. They walked in the two orchestras: highland and youth orchestra from Radzymin, and include standard bearers, military, scouts, miners, priests, nuns, representatives of Catholic organizations and parishes in Warsaw and volunteers preparing for WYD in Krakow.

At the church of St. Anthony Zaccaria was a solemn transfer of the relics of St. Maximilian Kolbe. The last stretch to the Temple of Divine Providence, participants underwent assisted by representatives of various groups and states, including the army, scouts, mayors from across the papal Polish. On the last stretch of relics. Maximilian Kolbe carried by representatives of the Polish Episcopate.

The procession ended at the Temple of Divine Providence. At noon there began Mass., Which was attended, among others, Prime Minister of Law and Justice deputy, Speaker of the Sejm Marek Kuchciński, Speaker of the Senate Stanislaw Karczewski, head of Law and Justice Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the representatives of the episcopate, parliament, local governments, the faithful of Warsaw and the whole country.

In Thanksgiving in parishes throughout the Polish is conducted to collect money for the construction of the Temple of Divine Providence.

Thanksgiving is celebrated on the first Sunday of June. It was established in 2008 on the initiative of the Metropolitan of Warsaw Cardinal. Kazimierz Nycz. the idea of ​​Thanksgiving is related to the continuation of the historical initiative of the Four, which was the construction of the Temple of Divine Providence. The construction of the temple as a national gratitude, mainly for the enactment of the Constitution of May 3, decided Parliament resolution of 5 May 1791 year. Initiative to build the temple resumed in 2002, Polish Primate Cardinal. Jozef Glemp.

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