Quarter of a million pilgrims turn out for celebrations at Jasna Gora Monastery
Two-hundred and fifty thousand pilgrims arrived at Jasna Gora Monastery
in Czestochowa to take part in the celebrations of the Holy Mary
Assumption Feast. The majority of them walked from the farthest reaches of
Poland. Polish Cardinal Jozef Glemp led pilgrimage from Warsaw to the
center of Czestochowa. During his sermon, he reminded gatherers of how the
communist system was harmful to human spiritual life. He said that the
effect of it is still present. Youths represented the largest group of
pilgrims. They were uniting with other young Catholics who were at the
same time in Rome, celebrating the jubilee of the youth together with Pope
John Paul II. During Monday evening mass, the Pope appealed to the young
Poles to always stand by God. (Zycie, page 3)
