Marek Baterowicz: Light in a time of contempt

Recently, on October 31, the Basilica of St. Benedict in Nursia was reopened, renewed after the earthquake in October 2016. The solemn mass was celebrated by 16 bishops and abbots along with Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti. There were representatives of the Italian government and the EU Parliament, unfortunately not the highest rank, ministers or vice presidents. And St. Benedict, canonized in 1220, has since 1964 been the patron of Europe, buried on Monte Cassino. It is besides a beating heart of Benedictine spirituality – as Cardinal Pietro Parolin, spokesperson for Pope Leon XIV, said during the Mass, adding that this event is simply a sign of spiritual revival in Umbria, Italy and possibly in Europe. This Europe, which is deprived of its soul, would be reduced to a combination of economical or method interests, but without deep spirituality. Yet, humans search light and strength in their earthly journey, and in the life of Christian values. Cardinal Parolin besides added that old Benedictine solidarity could become an antidote against the handicaps of the continent of Europe. The awareness of these disabilities was already John Paul II, erstwhile in 1980 – in 1500 years since the birth of St. Benedict in Nursia – he preached a homily there. He inactive had hopes in the EU, but warned:

“The advantage of economics over morality is felt. The advantage of temporality over spirituality...”

Today, this painting has become dark, Brussels as if it were no longer a guardian of rights and democracy, if it supports the regulation of Tusk in Poland – a supporter of corruption and with contempt of the destructive state found the regulation of law. In these times, contempt for the peoples of Europe, erstwhile their sovereignty is undermined and the criteria of democracy are seriously lowered (in our case they are even broken!) we feel helpless, and in Poland these weaknesses are aggravated by pressures of peereleans accustomed to “value” completely alienated from democracy, and which advance contempt for rights, so besides for democracy. In this situation time may callback these words of John Paul II from the homily quoted above: “...The Benedict, by religion in Christ, found justice from God, and he could inculcate it in the souls of his contemporaries and descendants.” What's Tusk doing? He wants to instill a “righteousness” worthy of vampires or wolves over the Vistula...

Archbishop Marek Jędraszewski, who, on the occasion of the feast of independency in his homily in Wawel, next to the royal graves, stressed with large care the importance of working for Poland... And we know who to stick this hint to, but it is the Prime Minister of the alleged 3rd Republic of Poland Donald Tusk who directs the government that works against Poland!!!

So, what can we as a nation in these times of contempt? erstwhile we no longer have the Primate of the Millennium, and the prayers to Saint Andrew Bobola or the parent of Jasna Góra have not yet taken effect? Can he be taken care of by St. Benedict, for whom justice was so important? Let us besides remember the words of Wojtyla from his poem “Thinking Homeland” : “...freedom must be constantly gained, it cannot only be owned”... Our nation, which has suffered so much for centuries, deserves a better fate, not that we are deprived of a law-abiding and Polish state, but that we should be thrown into the mud! Let us return to sources as reliable as the legacy of the 1980 Solidarity and the tradition of the Millennium, always cultivated in the Church and even defended heroically on the walls of Jasna Góra! Then we will see the shadow of the Marshal from the conflict of Warsaw...

Marek Baterovich

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