Happy Feast of the Immaculate Conception! The last post I left discussing God’s revelation of His Father heart for the people of Israel meaning the Jews. I would like to pick up the topic again. On Saturday, Nov. 27, some of our team left for Poland for 10 days. The Americans (Carole, Adam, and I) who do not have permanent visas needed to leave the country for a few days to renew our allowance to stay in Austria. Our “Exile from Austria” was a blessing for the people of Kerygma.
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We stayed at a retreat house in Lanskorona near Wadowice, Poland where our Holy Father John Paul II was raised. God blessed us to visit JPII’s birthplace, small villages in the mountains, salt mines containing extravagant carvings made by minors, the convent and burial place of St. Faustina of the Divine Mercy, castles in Krakow, and beautiful Polish Advent markets. The most impacting of all these journeys was our spiritual pilgrimage to Auschwitz and Berkenau WWII concentration camps. We prayed and fasted as we walked on the same soil so many Europeans, especially Jews were murdered. It is not possible to fully describe the impact of seeing this land of death that until now was only a page in a history book for me.
1 Comments:
Ann,
this was the most powerful time for me in Poland as well. I have no words to describe what it was like to spend 5 hours in those two camps. That place and Divine Mercy. The amazing thing is God's mercy and the Hope we have in that. What a gift to go to Divine Mercy and then Auschwitz and Berkenau. A sister spoke to us at Divine Mercy and His Sacred Heart and our Hope in His mercy really is the KEY to evangelization and what is to come in the midst of all the chaos and despair today in our world. Love you dear, and I'm so glad you have this website!
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