{"id":58826,"date":"2023-09-08T13:15:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T11:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofmconv.net\/polonia-festa-patronale-a-kalwaria-paclawska\/"},"modified":"2023-09-08T13:17:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T11:17:10","slug":"polonia-festa-patronale-a-kalwaria-paclawska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/polonia-festa-patronale-a-kalwaria-paclawska\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland: Patronal Feast in Kalwaria Pac\u0142awska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On August 15, 2023, the solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, His Eminence, Cardinal Mauro GAMBETTI, OFM Conv., the Vicar General of His Holiness for Vatican City, presided over Mass at the shrine-basilica in the village of Kalwaria Pac\u0142awska, Poland. The event concluded a five-day patronal celebration of Our Lady of Calvary there.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In his homily, the cardinal said that \u201cMary reigns with her Son Jesus and distributes blessings and graces.\u201d He prayed to Our Lady of Calvary to help us \u201cthrow away our defenses, trust God completely and accept the Love that wants to fully possess our lives.\u201d He also added: \u201cYou, Mary, exalted the Lord: not problems, not difficulties, not fears, rather, for you, God was first and greatest in life. This is where the Magnificat comes from; this is where joy comes from: not from the absence of problems, which come anyway. Instead, joy comes from the presence of God who helps us, who is close to us. God is great and, above all, He gazes upon His little ones. God\u2019s love has a weakness for us: God gazes upon His little ones and loves them.\u201d<br \/>\nThe faithful of Kalwaria Pac\u0142awska have been anticipating the feast of the Assumption since August 11. They took part in events at the shrine, and on the roadways of Kalwaria. They also and benefitted from the ministry of the friars in the confessionals.<br \/>\nThe pilgrims listened to daily sermons from Friar Marek AUGUSTYN, from Rychwa\u0142d, Poland and from special guests, namely, the Most Reverend Mons. Jacek KICI\u0143SKI, Auxiliary Bishop of Wroc\u0142aw; the Most Reverend Stanis\u0142aw DOWLASZEWICZ, OFM Conv., Auxiliary Bishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia; the Most Reverend Adam SZAL, Archbishop of Przemy\u015bl, Poland; the Most Reverend J\u00f3zef MICHALIK, Archbishop Emeritus of Przemy\u015bl, Poland, and the Minister Provincial of the Province of St. Anthony and Bl. James of Strepar in Poland (Cracow) Friar Marian GO\u0141\u0104B.<br \/>\nThe festive program also included musical concerts, including one entitled <em>\u201cCalvary Oritorio: Go Out to All the World\u201d<\/em> by Dominik LASOTA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Friar Jan M. SZEWEK<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 15, 2023, the solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, His Eminence, Cardinal Mauro GAMBETTI, OFM Conv., the Vicar General of His Holiness for Vatican City, presided over Mass at the shrine-basilica in the village of Kalwaria Pac\u0142awska, Poland. The event concluded a five-day patronal celebration of Our Lady of Calvary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58822,"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-58826","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\/58826","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=58826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}