I want to tell you a story that happened many years ago when I was a student. My seminary was in a former Cistercian monastery, which laid beautifully and stunningly among meadows, forests and hills. Although it laid on a main road it was quite hard to get there or to leave the place. I was part of a retreat…
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I’ve got one particular problem with the English language. It concerns my ministry among you. As you perfectly know, there are very few pronunciation rules in English, and even they have a lot of exceptions. So, actually I have to check pronunciation of many words in a dictionary. But the dictionary doesn’t contain all of the biblical names of people…
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Over the last few weeks the celebrations in Berlin, Prague and Budapest drew the attention of the mass media. Twenty years ago the peoples of Central Europe liberated themselves from communism and Soviet power. The desire for freedom survived in the peoples’ hearts despite oppression, persecution and brain washing. Communists believed that new generations, grown in that system would be…
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Today’s gospel is part of quite a long speech by Jesus. It is taken from the thirteenth chapter of St Mark’s gospel. This text is quite complicated, because it’s a mixture of forecasts concerning the downfall of Jerusalem, persecution of the disciples and apparently the end of the world. Actually it’s hard to separate the parts telling about the end…
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Last night I took part in a celebration of Poland’s Independence. At one point the Polish consul approached. When I was introduced she was really surprised to see a catholic priest from Poland dressed in a kilt outfit. I assume she expected to see a man in a long black robe and a collar – which is a very popular…