Marcin Bogdan: They came and started with the Church

On 20 May 1901, at the Catholic School of People (Katholische Volksschule) in September, German teacher sentenced 14 children to corporal punishment for refusing to answer spiritual lessons in German. Moved and agitated, parents began gathering outside the school building. The German authorities have punished parents protesting for their children with financial fines. These events were the beginning of the strike, which went into past as a strike by the Wrzesiński Children against Germanization of Polish schools, against forcing them to learn religion and to pray in German. The strike continued until Easter 1904. The Prussian state sued the kid strikers and their parents for trial. Children were flogged with up to 100 strokes and 25 of their parents were sentenced to 2 months to 2.5 years in prison. Referring to these events, the German Emperor Wilhelm II in his speech in 1902 in Malbork stated that: "...again, the Polish shoe wants to insult the Germans ...".. The Wrzesiński Children Strike was recorded by Maria Konopnicka in a poem:

SEPTEMBER

‘From Heaven and Warta

For this prayer in his own speech,

In 2025, the Wrzesiński Children's Foundation was a co-organiser of the concert, which was to be held in the Wrzesińska fare. performance of works by Louis Lewandowski, born in September, a hebrew who spent his full adult life in Berlin, and his full artistic work and way were connected with music composed and performed in synagogues. During the concert, songs were to be sung in German, as shown by the following program:

1. Augenblicke der Weihe Consolations op. 44 no. 5, Moderato;

Should we ask whether it was indiscreet or alternatively conscious and mysterious provocation? Thanks to protests of Catholic and patriotic environments, the performance was yet cancelled. But the Wrzesiński Children's Foundation believes that the protest was unfounded, and connecting Louis Lewandowski's person, who lived between 1821 and 1894, with the Wrzesiński Children's strike is unjustified due to the fact that "thematically, they have nothing in common". However, the same Foundation calls Louis Lewandowski "The Children of September", which, by itself, makes specified a relationship, at least in the verbal layer, creates. I did not find any information to indicate that Louis Lewandowski was active in anti-Polish activities. But I besides did not find any information that would indicate that he was connected with Poland, or even with Polish culture or art. His biography available in encyclopedias or wikipedias contains amazing wording. 1 can read that “as a 12 year old, he emigrated to the west’ a "his ways of life went to Berlin". It is simply a curiosity to decision from Prussia to Berlin, which was the capital of the Kingdom of Prussia, to call emigration. The authors of Lewandowski's biography clearly powder his biography explaining that “as a judaic kid coming from the east of Europe he received aid in life and learning in the synagogue”. The terms utilized about "immigration" and "emergence of Europe" are nothing like the political realities of the 19th century. They service only an effort to justify the career that Louis Lewandowski did in Berlin, where, despite being Jewish, he became a prof. of the Royal Academy of Arts. Undoubtedly, born in September Lewandowski recorded himself in history, but completely different from the Wrzesiński Children defending themselves against Germanization. Therefore, organizing specified a performance was either unwise or provocative.

In the light of the facts described, it is shocking that Archbishop Wojciech Polak, Primate of Poland, took the patronage over this concert. But it is more than shocking, even shocking, that after canceling the performance Archbishop Pole sent a letter to the Wrzesiński Children's Foundation from “expressions of kindness and memory in prayer” And with blessing. In this scandalous letter, which is available on the website of the Archdiocese of Gniezno, protesting Catholics and Polish patriots, Primas calls “extreme environments” based on “lies and half-truths and importantly distorting the teaching of the ChurchIt’s okay. ” I will not mention the full letter here, but I must address 2 fundamental issues that, as we can read in the letter, "Anxiety“ Archbishop of Poland. The first point is that protestors claim that "The works that Lewandowski created were mainly played in synagoguesIt’s okay. ” The Primate in rejecting this allegation cites the Second Vatican Council, which "wants to revive and urge common cognition and respectIt’s okay. ” The Primate besides writes that “The Christian should see in the individual the confession of the Moses brother, not the enemy”. The Archbishop of Poland, as the Primate of Poland, should remember that judaic communities demanded the removal of crosses from the gravel pit at the site of the erstwhile Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. To this day, the carrying of crosses into the Auschwitz camp is prohibited due to the fact that “seriousness and respect for the memory of victimsIt’s okay. ” Is this an example “mutual cognition and respect”? If Jews are disturbed by crosses exhibited in places where Polish Catholics were besides exterminated, should we, Poles and Catholics, open our churches to their culture? erstwhile Jews forbid setting and exposing crosses Primate Wojciech Polak is silent. erstwhile Poles do not want judaic songs to sound in the Catholic church, the Primate writes a letter and blesses the organizers of this event. So who does Archbishop Wojciech Polak represent?

And question two, equally painful. Archbishop Pole writes in his letter: “It is hard to resent the fact that, by promoting the work of a composer, 1 wants to hear his work in the first language in which he created”. As if not adequate Primate states in the conclusions of the letter that: "The Wrzesińskie children were defending the right to live in actual freedom. So that 1 can talk as 1 wishes, so that 1 can pray as 1 wishes.". Does not the Primate of Poland know the words of a poignant poem written in 1901 by 1 of the Wrześinski children?

“We God want to talk to you,

But «Vater unser» we do not understand,

And no 1 can make us call you that,

For thou art not Vater, but our Father."

Does the Archbishop of Poland not know the words of this poem, or does he not realize these words? Or does he not want to realize that Wrzesińskie Children opposed Germanization, that they fought for Polishness and not for it to be “Who wants to”? They did not fight to hear the work in the first language in which he created the possessor.

‘If they come to destruct this Nation, they will begin with the Church.”. They came and started with the Church. The parish priest of the parish of St. Stanislaw Kostka in Warsaw Żoliborz rented the church of TVN station. More specifically, he rented the church of the Capital Estrada, which organized a performance in the church under the patronage of the Capital City of Warsaw and TVN Warner Bros Discovery. The concert, which took place on December 9, will be aired by TVN on Christmas. It was not a performance of judaic songs but carols, carols sung by celebrated and respected artists. But the organizers and performance partners treated the church building like a common performance hall. Due to the necessity of preparing the “scenes”, the parish priest closed the church for the faithful and pilgrims for the full week. Liturgy were held at that time in the chapel in the basement of the church, until 1 wants to compose - in catacombs. Not only was the chancel turned into a stage, but the church was turned into an audience, which is clearly evidenced by the announcement of ticket sales:

During his fresh pilgrimage to Turkey, Holy Father Leon XIV took off his shoes erstwhile entering the mosque, showing respect for Muslims. TVN representatives showed no respect for Catholics, entered the church with proverbial shoes. They entered a peculiar church, the Sanctuary of Blessed Fr Jerzy Popieluszko. In the place where Fr Jerzy Popieluszko taught to win evil with good, those who effort to win evil with good did the performance stage.

On the Warsaw Archdiocese website I did not find a letter from the Warsaw Metropolitan relating to these events. On the website of the Archdiocese of Gniezno I did not find the letter of the Primate of Poland referring to these events. Why are they silent? Abdicate? ‘If they come to destruct this Nation, they will begin with the Church due to the fact that the Church is the strength of this nation.”. They first made the Church open, open adequate to enter the interior of the Church, to enter its structure. And they began to destruct the Church from within, they began to destruct the Church to destruct the Nation. Why are we silent?

Mr Bogdan