Warsaw. Central Way of the Cross on Good Friday. The intention of peace in Ukraine
On Friday, the Central Way of the Cross passed through the streets of the capital. Earlier, a mass for peace in Ukraine was celebrated. The Metropolitan of Warsaw, Cardinal Kazimierz Nycz, led the Greek Catholic metropolitan of Przemyśl-Warsaw, Archbishop Eugeniusz Popowicz. The processions are also scheduled for Saturday and Sunday.
The Metropolitan of Warsaw, Kazimierz Nycz, participated in the Lord’s liturgy in the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist. After 20 in front of the church of St. Anna to Teatralny Square, from where they went to Piłsudski Square, and then returned to Krakowskie Przedmieście in front of the Church of St. Anna.
At the head of the procession and change, the next change – the queue has passed through various environments, incl. priests, nuns, neocatechumenal classes, students, city guards, railroad workers, lawyers, craftsmen, firefighters, soldiers, policemen and councilors. At each station of the cross, one person from Ukraine joined the group carrying the cross. During the service, songs were sung in Polish and Ukrainian. The meditations, read with the help of the availability of the 14 stations of the Passion, depicting the last path of Jesus Christ, touched on mercy in the context of Ukraine.
During the time of the live-worshipers, two others – and the Ukrainian ones – prayed for the underprivileged in Ukraine, advancing in Ukraine, advancing step by step, and about further steps in Poland. On the way of the cross, Nycz, you will notice that we live in a time of high ambivalence that comes from advances in the field of life. – On the one hand, life is richer, easier, you can get to know the world better, on the other hand, if it is misused by bad people, that they do not reign and hold back responsibility, it is easier and easier to destroy cities, correct and make harm. Value depends on human freedom – Lots of hierarch.
– Good Friday is a day when we re-realize the meaning of Christ’s passion and death on the cross, which from the tree of shame and death became a tree of life, love and hope – said the Greek Catholic Archbishop of Przemyśl and Warsaw, Archbishop Eugeniusz Popowicz. He stressed that “as Pilate once was sentenced to a train, now he is ties to Ukraine.” – We believe that on this path of contempt and rejection is also carried by our cross – all of Ukraine, crosses of raped women and children, crosses of innocent people murdered, crosses of refugees and war wanderers, crosses ruined by Russian bombs of cities and villages, crusaders defending their homeland – he said Archbishop Popowicz. – We believe that our Savior, who gave his spirit on the cross for us, which can be secured in any in Ukraine, who was assigned to manual operation.
Grekokato, Metropolitan of Przemyśl and Warsaw, said that “the Ukrainian nation seen not only the new Szymons and the new Veronikas, who help to bear the cross and the sons of Ukraine. The hierarch also thanked all Poles for their acts of mercy. which flow from the depths of hearts not filled with sincere faith – confessed Archbishop Popowicz.
26. Central Way of the Cross. Songs in Polish and Ukrainian
Central The Way of the Cross through the streets of Warsaw. The press office of the Archdiocese and Warsaw earlier informed that Latin and Greek Catholics would flow, singing songs in Polish and Ukrainian.
Cardinal Nycz also invited Ukrainians, of whom about 400,000 live in Warsaw. – I also hope that you want to improve, that will follow, who will vote in Gniezno, 1979 1979, who corrected to increase the traditions of the West and heights – noted the hierarch. He explained that “if one lung is sick and bleeding, as it is today, the whole body is weakened.” – We need to approach the cross, through the cross on foot to the resurrection – source.
Lawsuits in Warsaw on Saturday and Sunday
Warsaw Public Transport also talks about processes that will cause traffic disruptions. On Saturday, April 16, there will be two:
– from 21.15 to 22.00 from the church at Długa 13/15 on the route: Miodowa – Kapitulna – Podwale – J. Kilińskiego – Długa;
– from 22.00 to 23.00 from the church at ul. Czarnieckiego 15 on the route: S. Czarnieckiego – pl. Inwalidów – A. Mickiewicz (pavement) – L. Mierosławski – S. Czarniecki.
On Sunday, April 17, in the morning it was possible to get ready for the move due to the following process:
– from 6.00 a.m. to 6.30 a.m. from the church at ul. S. Czarnieckiego 15 on the route: S. Czarnieckiego – pl. Inwalidów – A. Mickiewicz (pavement) – L. Mierosławski – S. Czarniecki;
– from 6.00 a.m. to 7.00 a.m. from the church at pl. Zbawiciela 1 – a triple circle around the square;
– between 7.10 and 7.40 from the church at ul. Gwintowa 3 on the route: Gościniec – Gwintowa.
Photo Source: Mateusz Marek / PAP