{"id":37348,"date":"2021-08-25T20:27:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T18:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofmconv.net\/polonia-solennita-dellassunta-a-kalwaria-paclawska\/"},"modified":"2021-08-25T20:29:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T18:29:12","slug":"polonia-solennita-dellassunta-a-kalwaria-paclawska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/polonia-solennita-dellassunta-a-kalwaria-paclawska\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland: Solemnity of the Assumption in Kalwaria Pac\u0142awska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>During August 11-15, 2021, many pilgrims visited the Shrine of Kalwaria Pac\u0142awska, near Przemy\u015bl, Poland.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The pilgrims focused in particular on St. Mary of the Assumption and this year\u2019s milestone commemorations marking the 100th anniversary of the death of the Venerable Servant of God, Wenanty KATARZYNIEC; the 80th anniversary of the death of St. Maximilian KOLBE; and the 30th anniversary of the deaths of Blessed Zbigniew STRZA\u0141KOWSKI and Micha\u0142 TOMASZEK.<br \/>\nFor the 100th anniversary of the death of Friar Wenanty, a presentation entitled \u201cNewfound Happiness\u201d was written and performed in his honor. Friar Wenanty is buried in Kalwaria Pac\u0142awska.<br \/>\nFor the duration of the feast, relics of the missionary martyrs Zbigniew STRZA\u0141KOWSKI and Micha\u0142 TOMASZEK were on display, namely, the shirts they wore when they were martyred thirty years ago.<br \/>\nFor the 80th anniversary St. Maximilian M. KOLBE, celebrated by the Church on August 14, 2021, the former Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, His Eminence, Robert Cardinal SARAH, presided over a commemorative Mass at the Shrine on August 15th.<br \/>\nCardinal SARAH dedicated most of his homily to Our Lady, whom he said, \u201centered the glory of heaven not only with her soul but also with her body.\u201d He then encouraged the pilgrims to ask for \u201cthe grace to die in love\u201d, because that \u201cwas the death of Our Lady. Hers was a death of love. Such a death is a good death.\u201d<br \/>\nDuring midnight Mass, August 14-15, the Minister Provincial of the Province of St. Anthony and Bl. James of Strepar in Poland (Cracow), Friar Marian GO\u0141\u0104B, solemnly sent Friar Adam STASICKI to Peru, imposing the missionary cross upon him.<br \/>\nNotable participants in the festivities included the Most Reverend Salvatore PENNACCHIO, Apostolic Nuncio to Poland; the Most Reverend Adam SZAL, Metropolitan Archbishop of Przemy\u015bl; the Vicar General, Friar Jan MACIEJOWSKI; and the Assistant General for the <em>Foederatio Europae Mediae et Orientalis<\/em> (FEMO) Friar Tom\u00e1\u0161 LES\u0147\u00c1K.<br \/>\nFor more information about Kalwaria Pac\u0142awska [Polish language only] visit the shrine\u2019s website at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/kalwaria.franciszkanie.pl\/\">https:\/\/kalwaria.franciszkanie.pl\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Friar Jan M. 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The pilgrims focused in particular on St. Mary of the Assumption and this year\u2019s milestone commemorations marking the 100th anniversary of the death of the Venerable Servant of God, Wenanty KATARZYNIEC; the 80th anniversary of the death of St. Maximilian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37344,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,115,148],"tags":[468,1773],"class_list":["post-37348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-federations","category-femo-en","category-news","tag-kalwaria-paclawska-en","tag-poland-cracow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}