Today Soulful Day – our steps are directed to graves of relatives and friends who have overtaken us on the way to eternity. Let us besides remember in prayer those who sacrificed their lives in the service of the defence of life and family. This list is much longer, but let's remind some...
Candlers and clergymen, doctors, politicians and socialists. Although their titles and dignity differed, it combined the love of life, the awareness of the dignity of matrimony and the strong foundation of the family. They deserve our memory and prayerful gratitude. And they surely hope that among their fellow countrymen there will be no shortage of continuations of their mission...
Teresa Strzembosz (1930-1979) – Born as 1 of the triplets, she had brothers: Adam, lawyer, prof. of KUL, I president of the ultimate Court and president of the Court of State, and Tomasz Romuald (d.2004), historian, prof. of KUL, Inst. past and Inst. Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Following the adoption by the Parliament of the Polish People's Republic in 1956 of a law allowing abortion, the ministry of wellness services initiated to save the lives of children at hazard of abortion and to advance cognition of natural household planning. 2.XII t.r. organised a nationwide pilgrimage of wellness services to Jasna Góra, during which primate Stefan Wyszyński gave the first sermon, after leaving prison. In Warsaw, Laski and Izabelin and Otwock, and then permanently in Czestochowa, she organized retreats closed to doctors, midwives and nurses. A national household guidance teacher and a associate of the Commission for the Holy See. After Pope Paul VI announced in 1968 the encyclicals "Humanae vitae" contributed to the adoption of 12 II 1969 in Krakow by 113th Conference of the Polish Episcopal Conference "The First Instruction of the Polish Episcopal for the clergy to prepare the faithful for the sacrament of matrimony and the pastoralism of families". The consequence of its activities was the operation in 1970 of a network of 800 household clinics in 23 (in 25) Polish dioceses; these institutions employed about 3,500 advisors. Her name was named the home of the Lone parent in Chylicki.
We encourage you to get to know the figure of Teresa Strzembosz (1930-1970), Precursor of household Advice in Poland. origin material is available on our website https://t.co/78DDRTrfK in the Teresa Strzembosz tab.https://t.co/8IemWqRnIvpic.twitter.com/eX2wMirNIt
— For_Family (@DRodzin) August 28, 2020
Vladimir Fijałkowski (1917-2003) – A doctor, a gynecologist, a model of a Christian doctor. An underground soldier during planet War II and a concentration camp prisoner. Best known as Father of Polish Birth Schools and author of books on this subject. Father of NPR in Poland. He acted in the following organizations: the global Federation for household Life Promotion, the global Society for Psychology and Pre- and Perinatal medicine (from 1978 to 1986 he was a associate of the Management Board) and the technological Council of the Institute of John Paul II KUL. Since his appointment in 1994, the prof. has been a regular associate of the Papal Academy of Life. He was besides a associate of the editorial squad of the bimonthly “Natural household Planning” published by the Pro Humana Vita Foundation in Krakow. For his engagement awarded many secular and ecclesiastical awards, the biggest of which is the medal “Pro Ecclesia et Pontificae” awarded in 1991 and the Commander's Cross of St Gregory the large with the Star awarded by John Paul II.
Archbishop Kazimierz Majdański (1916-2007) – Since 1969, he has taken up technological and educational work at the Academy of Catholic Theology in Warsaw, conducting lectures on theology of the signs of time, theology of matrimony and family, teachings on family. In the early 1970s he prepared the task of the Institute of Pastoral Theology. He then developed a program for the established 29 April 1975 Interdisciplinary Institute for Studying the ATK Family, the first specified technological institution; until 1993 he was its manager and president of the technological Council. Thanks to his efforts, based on the experience of the Institute, he was officially recognized in the program of higher education in Poland the direction of “family learning”. In 1980 – appointed by Pope John Paul II as vice-president and secretary of the Vatican household Committee – he led the preparations of the Synod of Bishops about the household of 1980; he took active part in his works and then in the creation of a fresh Vatican dicastery: the Pontifical Council for household Affairs, from 1981 to 1993 he was a associate of her Presidium. In 1986, he founded the Świecki Institute of Consecrated Life of the Holy Family, dedicated to serving families. He cared for the presence in the diocese and the improvement of movements and communities serving the formation of lay Catholics. He created the Diocese Retreat House. He created the home of the Lone parent and set up parish groups “The Merciful towards the smallest”.
Artur Górski, associate (1970-2016) – Since 2005, he has been continuously holding the mandate of an MP of Law and Justice. Prior to political activity he was a writer and Catholic activist. He was a large supporter of the defence of life, advocated the change of the alleged "abortion compromise".
We will effort not only to defend in the laws and to bear witness to the defence of human life from conception to natural death, but besides to address the spiritual and material condition of Polish families said Mr Górski. As Catholics, we must take initiatives in public life, but if there are initiatives hostile to human life and family, we will effort to act against them and defend Christian values in the Sejm..
Mr Arthur died #Mountainhttps://t.co/JJJLnuT2IBpic.twitter.com/95UWLhqsnE
— Radio Maryja (@RadioMaryja) April 1, 2016
Dr. Antoni Zięba (1948-2018) – Graduate of the Cracow University of Technology; Dr. engineer of construction. In 1971 – a technological and educational individual at the University of Cracow. Co-founder in 1980 of the Crusade of Prayer in the defence of the Concepted Children, as well as co-organizer of 2 National Marches in the defence of Life (1996); initiator and co-organizer since 1981 of the yearly pilgrimage of defenders of life to Jasna Góra. Co-founder in 2007 planet Prayer Crusade for Life – planet Prayer for Life. Author of many articles in the field of the protection of the life of the conceived child. The co-founder and editor of the Catholic household Weekly “Source” (since 1992); the two-weekly Catholic Youth ” Our Way; the monthly Teachers and Educators of Catholic “Teacher”, the editor-in-chief of the “Schets of problem Service of Life”, and the co-founder of specified periodicals as “Our Ark”, “The Miracles and Graces of God”. Co-author of children's weekly “Jaś” and “Dominik”. president of the Polish Association of Defenders of Human Life, “Our Future”, Vice president of the Polish Federation of Life defence Movements.
Today, on the ceremony of Our woman Queen of Poland, Dr. Antoni Zięba, Vice president of the Polish Federation of defence of Life, died.
A man who was the voice of those who have no voice.
Let us remember him in prayer. pic.twitter.com/rD0KLYnalz
— EpiskopatNews (@EpiskopatNews) May 3, 2018
Teresa Kramarek (1928-2018) – gynecologist obstetrician has extended experience in counseling on natural household planning, to which she devoted most of her professional and technological involvement, the author of the Polish method of fertility recognition. She worked for more than 20 years at the Diocese household Advice in Wrocław. At the same time, she trained instructors in natural household planning at diocesan courses. She besides participated in meetings with doctors, providing guidance on natural household planning.
Paul King (1974-2021) – founder and manager of Rubikon Publishing House; boy of Teresa King, creator and author of programs, environment and textbooks Education for Life in the Family. In “Rubikon” he released programs, textbooks and films, which have been utilized for many years by teachers of Raising for Life in the household throughout Poland and beyond our borders. He put ideas, the good of a man, the good of a household first. He was a leader actively active in many pro-family initiatives. He was very afraid about the appropriate formation of Polish children and young people in the field of household and life protection. He besides promoted natural methods of fertility recognition. Without exposing himself, he could do a lot and encourage others to support pro-family and pro-life activities.
Lucyna Wiśniewska (1955-2022) – Medical doctor, received second degree specialization in neurology and wellness care. State territory Sanitary Inspector and manager of the territory Sanitary and Epidemiological Station in Radom. Unlimitedly devoted to family, patients as a doctor and residents of Radom Land as a socialist and politician.
Always the most crucial issue for us was the protection of life – said, as Vice president of the Right Hand of Poland, lawyer for Radomski District. – You always gotta look at current topics, but there are certain constant values, timeless values, just like protecting life. It is said that there is no death punishment in Poland. What is abortion if not the death penalty? We hope that there will be courage in the policies to tighten the rules in this area.
With large regret and pain we received news of today's car accident in which Lucyna Wiśniewska died,
our best friend, the manager of PSSE in Radom, an excellent doctor, a large man.
uniting in prayer.
Friends of the Right Hand of the Republic pic.twitter.com/h1Vpgr0eJN
— Right of the Republic of Mark Jurek (@Right_Rz) October 30, 2022
Fr Francis Płonka (1941-2023) – Priest, first the archdiocese of Kraków, then the Diocese of Bielsko-Żywiec. An highly dedicated pastor and a large friend of the families active in life defence. He organized a household ministry. Thanks to his commitment, a survey of household Theology and the Mother's Lonely home was created, as well as a window of life and many another wonderful works: the Life defence Fund, the Adoption of Love, the Diocese household Support Centre, matrimony meetings, the Diocese household Advice, the Work of spiritual Adoption, the Crusade of Prayer in the Defendment of the Concepted.
Today is the ceremony of a holy priest. Fr Franciszek Płonka did the right thing: he defended the conceived children from abortion, families from modern threats. Modest, same - sacrificing, he mobilized the faithful to enter the planet and fight for value. He had a Ph.D., but he asked him not to... pic.twitter.com/tQi9jq4HW3
— Kaja Godek (@GodekKajaU) August 4, 2023
Dr. Jerzy Umiazowski (1933-2023) –Chairman of the Ethics Commission at the ultimate Medical Council and co-author of the Polish Code of Ethics; doctor and socialist known, among others, for his commitment to respect for human life from conception to natural death. This attitude was seen in his regular activities, including his commitment to the improvement of the Polish Code of Ethics or the works of the Pontifical Pro-Vita Academy in Vatican. An example of a kind man and doctor who preaches the superconfessive fact about human rights, especially the right to life and improvement from conception.
Andrzej (1923-1920) and Wanda Połtawski (1921-1923) – he – prof. of philosophy; she – doctor of medical science, psychiatrist. Both marked by the hard experiences of the war and business period. He was an AK soldier, a Warsaw insurgent, a prisoner of the POW camp close Magdeburg. She, arrested for her activities in scouting and conspiracy, went through the hell of KL Ravensbrück. They both worked for families, among others, at the Pontifical Council for household Affairs in Vatican and Pro Vita Academy. Friends of St. John Paul II, proceed his teaching on Christian anthropology and human love. In 2013, the Połtawski State received the Phoenix Prize for the "Book of Life", including the effort to defend the value and dignity of life. The chapter of the award stressed that Wanda and Andrzej Połtawski "in their technological and investigation activities, not neglecting the household order, in beginning to others, created a personalistic model of the matrimony community".
Wanda and Andrzej Połtawski (67 years after marriage) talk about the meaning and meaning of marriagehttps://t.co/NU7aWClLPwpic.twitter.com/0t1UPp5nIR
— Studio tv Sunday (@TVSunday) February 9, 2016
Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domaine, et lux perpetua luceat eis. Requiescant in pace. Amen.
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