Today the heart of Sunday-palm Poland was Dukla. Nearly 5,000 young people from Poland, Ukraine, Slovakia and Hungary descended on Dukla for the 26th Youth Meeting of the Archdiocese of Przemysl, with Holy Mass presided over by Apostolic Nuncio in Poland Archbishop Salvatore Pennacchio.
After the Mass, the Marshal of the Sejm addressed the gathered people. He reminded that in February this year the Sejm established April 14 as the Feast of the Baptism of Poland (considering the significance of the decision of Mieszko I, regarded as the beginning of the Polish State) and this year we celebrate it for the first time.
In the next part of his speech Marek Kuchciński emphasized the government's efforts to support young people:
- If we talk about the 500+ program, we think about support for families, for young people, to improve their lives.
- If we reduce taxes, such as the corporate CIT, it is to make it easier for entrepreneurs to create jobs and thus increase employment.
- If we plan to abolish the PIT for young people who work at all this year, it is to increase their wages and make it easier for them to enter adult life.
- If we introduced education reform by eliminating middle schools, it was so that young people would grow up in the familiar and safe environment of elementary school so that they would then be better prepared for high school.
Everything has to be thoughtful. And human-centered. But decisions are made by us, specific people. We are not an anonymous crowd. From our faith, each of us is individual and precious. As Pope Francis teaches - faith gives meaning to all our efforts. It frees us from a sense of loneliness in the face of a big world. And it gives us hope that what we do is important and good.
So we are not alone and we are not driven solely by individual ambitions. We have families, friends, we live in our small local local homelands, we are members of the nation, Poles. We live in our beautiful Carpathian We live in our beautiful Carpathian Mountains next to Slovaks, Hungarians, Ukrainians and we want to live in friendship with them. with them in friendship. In one common Europe of our Homelands.
I wish all of you that your participation in the 26th Youth Meeting of the Archdiocese of Przemysl will give you a lot of hope and will be a strengthening for the Easter holidays," concluded the Speaker of the Sejm.
After the mass also spoke the Archbishop of Przemysl Adam Szal, Father Tadeusz Rydzyk and the parish priest of St. Mary Magdalene in Dukla - Father Stanislaw Siuzdak. Among the guests were: Bogdan Rzońca, MP Krystyna Wróblewska, Podkarpackie Voivode Ewa Leniart and the Consul General of Hungary Adrienne Körmendy.
Photo by Marta Olejnik
