TRAGEDIA DI SMOLENSK: MONS. MICHALIK (CEP), IL SIGNIFICATO DI “UN SACRIFICIO”
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(Polonia) - “Il meglio delle elite polacche di oggi, i più alti funzionari dello Stato e i capi dell’esercito, con la propria vita, hanno reso omaggio a coloro che 70 anni fa erano il meglio dell’intellighenzia della Polonia” attaccata da Hitler e Stalin. È quanto ha affermato il presidente della Conferenza episcopale polacca (Cep), mons. Jozef Michalik, intervenendo sabato sera all’edizione speciale del telegiornale del primo canale della televisione pubblica (leggi il servizio). Mons. Michalik ha sottolineato il parallelismo tra la tragedia nella quale è morto il presidente polacco Lech Kaczynski e la morte di Giovanni Paolo II avvenuta cinque anni fa, anch’essa alla vigilia della Domenica della Divina Misericordia. Dopo il disastro aereo che sabato 10 aprile ha provocato 96 morti all’aeroporto di Smolensk in Russia, il vescovo ha annunciato che le preghiere per le vittime durante i sette giorni di lutto nazionale saranno un’invocazione particolare alla Divina Misericordia. Il presidente dell’episcopato polacco ha ribadito che “oggi quel sacrificio è stato reso in nome dei più alti valori del popolo polacco, dei valori imprescindibili sia per le elite del passato sia per quelle attuali, i valori di libertà e di amore della patria” (leggi il servizio). Ricordando che nella catastrofe ha perso la vita anche l’ordinario militare cattolico, mons. Tadeusz Ploski, mons. Michalik ha evidenziato il significato simbolico della morte nella stessa tragedia del vescovo ortodosso Miron Chodakowski e del rev. Adam Pilch, della Chiesa evangelica.
SMOLENSK TRAGEDY: MGR. MICHALIK (CEP), THE MEANING OF “A SACRIFICE”
(Poland) – “The best of today’s Polish elites, the highest state officers and the army leaders, with their lives, have paid tribute to those who, 70 years ago, were the best of the intelligentsia of Poland”, attacked by Hitler and Stalin. This was stated by the president of the Polish Bishops Conference (Cep), mgr. Jozef Michalik, as he spoke on Saturday night at the special edition of the TV news on the first channel of state TV. Mgr. Michalik stressed the parallels between the tragedy in which Polish president Lech Kaczynski died and John Paul II’s death, five years ago, which also took place just before the Sunday of the Divine Mercy. After the air crash that killed 96 people at Smolensk airport in Russia on Saturday 10th April, the bishop announced that prayers for the victims during the seven-day national mourning will be a special invocation to the Divine Mercy.
SMOLENSK TRAGEDY: MGR. MICHALIK (CEP), THE MEANING OF “A SACRIFICE”
(Poland) – “The best of today’s Polish elites, the highest state officers and the army leaders, with their lives, have paid tribute to those who, 70 years ago, were the best of the intelligentsia of Poland”, attacked by Hitler and Stalin. This was stated by the president of the Polish Bishops Conference (Cep), mgr. Jozef Michalik, as he spoke on Saturday night at the special edition of the TV news on the first channel of state TV. Mgr. Michalik stressed the parallels between the tragedy in which Polish president Lech Kaczynski died and John Paul II’s death, five years ago, which also took place just before the Sunday of the Divine Mercy. After the air crash that killed 96 people at Smolensk airport in Russia on Saturday 10th April, the bishop announced that prayers for the victims during the seven-day national mourning will be a special invocation to the Divine Mercy.
The president of the Polish Bishops repeated that, “today, that sacrifice has been made in the name of the highest values of the Polish people, the values that are essential for the elites of the past and those of the present, the values of freedom and love for one’s country”. Recalling that the Catholic military ordinary, mgr. Tadeusz Ploski, also lost his life in the catastrophe mgr. Michalik emphasised the symbolic meaning of the death, in the same tragedy, of the Orthodox bishop Miron Chodakowski and rev. Adam Pilch, of the evangelical Church.
© SIR - 12 aprile 2010
© SIR - 12 aprile 2010