On June 2, 1979, the Pope arrived in Poland. What followed will never be forgotten by those who witnessed it.
He knelt and kissed the ground, the dull gray tarmac of the airport outside Warsaw. The silent churches of Poland at that moment began to ring their bells. The pope traveled by motorcade from the airport to the Old City of Warsaw.
The government had feared hundreds or thousands or even tens of thousands would line the streets and highways.
By the end of the day, with the people lining the streets and highways plus the people massed outside Warsaw and then inside it--all of them cheering and throwing flowers and applauding and singing--more than a million had come.
In Victory Square in the Old City the pope gave a mass. Communist officials watched from the windows of nearby hotels. The pope gave what papal biographer George Weigel called the greatest sermon of John Paul's life.
Why, the pope asked, had God lifted a Pole to the papacy? Perhaps it was because of how Poland had suffered for centuries, and through the 20th century had become "the land of a particularly responsible witness" to God. The people of Poland, he suggested, had been chosen for a great role, to understand, humbly but surely, that they were the repository of a special "witness of His cross and His resurrection." He asked then if the people of Poland accepted the obligations of such a role in history.
The crowd responded with thunder.
"We want God!" they shouted, together. "We want God!"
What a moment in modern history: We want God. From the mouths of modern men and women living in a modern atheistic dictatorship.
Wow, amazing article, as a Pole I can only say: "Thank You".
You might be interested in my post about fr. Popieluszko, on 6th of June he is going to be beatified...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2454768/posts Ah, the power of God gives people strenght... you can maim their bodies, you can kill them... but still, their souls and thoughts are untouchable. Even whole communist death-machine couldn't reach them.
Chwała Bohaterom
Cześć Ich Pamięci!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p2c_CPjK9I
Awantura - Czerwone skurwysyny
Gdy byłem małym dzieckiem,
w moim mieście, jeździły czołgi.
Kolejki stały, pod sklepami
a w nich ludzie, bardzo głodni.
Telewizja pokazywała, przemówienia generała.
Władza, strzelała w fabrykach, kopalniach
,stoczniach na ulicach !
Czerwone skurwysyny, znowu chcą dojść do władzy !
Czerwone skurwysyny, nie głosuj nigdy na nich !
Czerwone skurwysyny, zdrajcy naszego kraju !
Czerwone skurwysyny, patriotów dziś udają !
Patrioci, walczący o wolność znają waszej władzy smak
Wprowadziliście obce czołgi, na ulice naszych miast
To nie dzięki wam, nad naszym białym orłem, jest korona
Śmierć czerwonej demokracji, niechaj jak najprędzej kona !
Czerwone skurwysyny, znowu chcą dojść do władzy !
Czerwone skurwysyny, nie głoduj nigdy na nich !
Czerwone skurwysyny, zdrajcy naszego kraju !
Czerwone skurwysyny, patriotów dziś udają !
Gdy byłem małym dzieckiem,
w moim mieście, jeździły czołgi.
Kolejki stały, pod sklepami
a w nich ludzie, bardzo głodni.
Czerwone skurwysyny, znowu chcą dojść do władzy !
Czerwone skurwysyny, nie głoduj nigdy na nich !
Czerwone skurwysyny, zdrajcy naszego kraju !
Czerwone skurwysyny, patriotów dziś udają !
Translation:
Awantura - Red Bastards
When I was a small child the tanks where riding through my town
Queues outside every shop
and hungry people all around
TV showed only Generals speech
Government ordered to shoot people at factories, mines and at the streets.
Red Bastards - they want to rule again
Red Bastards - never vote for them
Red Bastards - traitors of our Homeland
Red Bastards - they pretend being patriots today
Patriots fighting for freedom, know the taste of your laws.
You have brought the foreign tanks on the streets of our towns
It's not thanks to them that our White Eagle has his crown
Death to red democracy, let it die fast.
Red Bastards - they want to rule again
Red Bastards - never vote for them
Red Bastards - traitors of our Homeland
Red Bastards - they pretend being patriots today
When I was a small child the tanks where riding through my town
Queues outside every shop
and hungry people all around
TV showed only Generals speech
Government ordered to shoot people at factories, mines and at the streets.
Red Bastards - they want to rule again
Red Bastards - never vote for them
Red Bastards - traitors of our Homeland
Red Bastards - they pretend being patriots today
