Remaining Faithful During COVID

All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri

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🗓️ 18 August 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Our hunger for God cannot be forgotten, even during COVID we can find ways to encounter him. Today, Dr.Sri uses St.John Paul II’s leadership and perseverance in Communist Poland to inspire us to seek the Sacraments and cling to Christ in a safe but faithful way during COVID.

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Our hunger for God cannot be forgotten, may we continue to seek him with all of our hearts no matter how difficult our external circumstances are.

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0:00.0	Hi I'm Edward Sree and welcome to all things Catholic where real faith meets real life.
0:06.0	When I was on pilgrimage last summer to Poland with Beth, my favorite place to visit was
0:17.8	Nova Huta, a city just outside of Krakow.
0:20.7	It means new city.
0:21.7	It was built in the communist era by the communist to be the ideal
0:25.9	atheistic communist city, a modern city dedicated to work in industry. And most of all, it was meant to be a city without God.
0:35.2	Well at least that was the plan of the communists. The communists did not want God
0:40.3	in this city and so they outlawed public worship, they outlawed a church from ever being built there.
0:46.9	But the Catholic Polish workers wanted a church. They wanted God and they would put up a cross in the middle of the fields right there in Nova Huta and the
0:56.8	the communists would come and tear down the cross and the Polish workers would put the cross back up and the communists would tear it back down and there'd be fighting and riots
1:04.2	all around this cross and at the very center of this struggle was a great man
1:09.0	our hero St. John Paul II who at the time was a young auxiliary Bishop of
1:14.9	Crackout and he made this like the center battle point with the atheistic
1:20.5	communist regime, the city that they wanted to build without God.
1:24.6	Imagine that a city in Poland where God is outlawed.
1:27.8	No church is allowed to open.
1:31.0	You know, from 1957 to 1977 every year
1:34.8	Caro Waitua would celebrate a Christmas Eve mass out in the open fields
1:41.2	for those Polish workers and thousands of people would come
1:44.7	out in the just imagine that those those frigid temperatures in Poland on
1:49.6	December 24th there they were gathering for Christmas Eve mass to show the world. We want
1:56.2	God. And as I think about this this great story from John Paul II's life. We can remember the great hunger those Polish people had.
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