Krakow: the Jesuits together with the Operation Under the White Stork organized a humanitarian transport for the springs
Thanks to the cooperation of the Jesuits and the charity organization Operation White Stork, 20 people from Ukraine came to Poland. The convoy left Krakow last Sunday.
– The group was diverse. It includes an elderly couple with your dogs that you are going to lead to Warsaw and then to Chicago. There were also two mothers with teenagers wanting to live in Germany – stories. Krzysztof SJ, which was delivered at the company.
Last Sunday, the convoy set off from Krakow to Lviv, to the parish of St. John Paul II, which is a place of refuge for eastern Ukraine. On the way to the volunteers heading for Lviv, information began that there had been bombings in the vicinity of this city.
On the Polish-Ukrainian border, the convoy took gifts intended for those in need in Ukraine. – On the way to Lviv, barricades with soldiers appeared, but not the contribution was detained – reports the Jesuit. They arrived at the time when the parish priest, Fr. Grzegorz Draus celebrated Mass. a wedding ceremony for a pair of local volunteers. Information about the bombings came in. – It was an experience: everything around you continued to flow, especially since it was a sunny day. There were no sounds of explosions, and yet bullets are heard somewhere nearby – shares the monk.
Thanks to their humanitarian transport status, they were able to bypass the long queue of cars on their way back, which stretched to a closer position. After a few hours of waiting at the border, the convoy of the premises in Poland. The refugees were taken to the reception center in Przemyśl, from where they continued their journey.
From the second day of the war, the parish of St. John Paul II in Lviv is brought in by people – women and – arriving from bombed towns (Kyiv, Kharkiv, Sumy, Zaporozhye). All parish spaces are used, including priests’ apartments, so you can spend the night there for over 160 people. return home to wait for the end of the visit and home. Others try to get abroad. From the beginning, through the House of St. John Paul II, more than 1.5 thousand . The refugees, apart from the parish priest, are served by Father Błażej, an oblate from the parish of St. Mary Magdalene, and seminarians. Over 30 volunteers take care of the functioning.
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