[featured-image single_newwindow=”false”]30-years of Solidarity mural in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski (priest Jerzy Popiełuszko in foreground) by Krugerr[/featured-image]
Today, June 4th, 2014 marks 25 years of Polish freedom from communism. While it is a wonderful event to celebrate, let us remember that it was principally through prayer that communism fell in Poland. In fact, it was primarily through the spiritual leadership of Saint John Paul II as well as the martyrdom of Blessed Jerzy Popiełuszko that paved the way for Polish freedom.
Above all, remember the words of the crowd in Victory Square when John Paul II visited Warsaw in 1979: “We want God!” Only through God can there be authentic freedom.
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought. – Pope John Paul II
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