Wisdom from Blessed Jerzy Popieluszko

 
 
 

Violent force cannot conquer, even though it may triumph for a time. We have the best example of this at the foot of Christ’s Cross. Here, too, there was constraint and hatred of the truth. But violence and hatred were conquered by the Lord’s love.

—Bl. Jerzy Popieluszko

quoted in the book, Blessed Jerzy Popiełuszko: Truth versus Totalitarianism

 

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SPIRITUAL RESISTANCE

As the young and ardent chaplain of the Solidarity labor union, Father Popiełuszko embodied the Polish people’s resistance to Communism, and for this he was murdered in 1984, at the age of thirty-seven, by the Communist regime’s security forces. Soon afterward, Father Popiełuszko was hailed as a martyr and a national hero, and his example inspired the Polish people to persevere in their struggle for political and religious freedom.

 
 
 
 
 
 

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