Prayer-musical assault to heaven with Fr Dolindo in defence of the primacy of holiness

Prayer-musical assault to heaven with priest Dolindo in defence of the primacy of holiness in the Church next Sunday, November 19, at Jasna Góra.

Priest Dolindo, the “holy priest from Naples”, is simply a celebrated and popular figure in our country. Many pilgrimages from Poland choose Naples as their goal to knock on the grave of an Italian mystic in consequence to his assurance: “I will find a way to tell you: trust in God!”. In my opinion, Father Dolindo gained specified large popularity among Poles thanks to his unlimited and complete trust, shown in all condition of life, towards a loving God. He said this in prayer, “Jesus, you take care of it!”

Dolindo evangelized the word spoken and written, for hours spent in confessional and in front of the Blessed Sacrament, the search for the mediocre and abandoned in the poorest places managed by the Camorra of Naples. His fiery sermons awakened religion in men, letters were formed waiting for his next volumes of comments to the Scriptures, all saw him as a giant of prayer and as a mystic of the 1 listening to Jesus and Mary's voice. And erstwhile there were no words to express his admiration and love for the Lord God, he sat to the organs to utter a secret with music and singing.

For respective years we have been utilizing the beautiful lyrics and musical scores that Father Dolindo Ruotolo left behind. By publishing his words and preparing concerts of his works, we make the Church eager to officially admit his holiness. We know that he is already a saint, as Padre Pio of San Giovanni Rotondo repeatedly testified, who knew and respected this humble priest from Naples. Another festival of that era, a mystic and stigmatist of St. Gemma Galgani prophesied that God would aid the Church to appear from a terrible spiritual crisis and social confusion through a "certain simple priest."

As all year, on 19 November, the anniversary of the death of Fr Dolindo gathers us at Jasna Góra, at Our Lady, our Heavenly Queen, to pray together for his beatification and to thank God for this giant of religion and tireless militant for the primacy of supernaturality in the Church. We feed our prayer and reflection with words and music.

We invitation together with Paulin's fathers, guardians of Częstochowa sanctuary, and Jasna Góra artists to participate in liturgy and performance next Sunday. This time, apart from prayer, we will participate in the planet premiere (besides Naples itself) of the Mass of the “Requiem” composed by Fr Dolindo in the most painful period of his “spiritual disbelief” in the Church, erstwhile he humbly accepted unjustified accusations and punishments which took distant from him another average means of fulfilling the priestly ministry, leaving only the chance to execute organist functions in the church of St Teresa al Museo in 1 of the poorest districts of the royal city close Vesuvius.

There will besides be an chance to buy fresh books and prayer books prepared by Polish publishers.
All friends and worshipers of the “holy priest from Naples” are invited to the Queen of Poland home next Sunday. See you at Jasna Góra. We start at 1:30.

A detailed plan for the 53rd anniversary of Father Dolindo's birth to heaven on the poster.

Fr Robert Skrzypczak