Homily for Sunday Ordinary 27 C (Sanktuarium Pasyjno-Maryjne, Poland)

04/10/2025 10 min
Homily for Sunday Ordinary 27 C (Sanktuarium Pasyjno-Maryjne, Poland)

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Send us a textI am preaching this homily on our pilgrimage in Poland. We visited Auschwitz/Brirkenau camp this morning; we are celebrating Mass in Sanktuarium Pasyjno-Maryjne, where Karol Wojtyra (St. John Paul II) came on pilgrimage as a boy.When I visited Krakow in 2001, we toured the Wawel Cathedral. There's a great bell in the tower, like Big Ben in London. It weighs 11 tons and it takes 12 people to ring it. This bell is named Zygmunt, and it has been rung for every major event in Poland since it was cast in [email protected]