Fr Stanisław Małkowski attended ceremony ceremonies with many clergy and secular groups. The Holy Mass was concelebrated by respective twelve priests, including Rev. Jan Sikorski, who gave a homily, Fr. Waldemar Chrostowski and Fr. Jarosław Wąsowicz, chaplain of the president of Poland.
Before the beginning of the liturgy, Agnieszka Jędrzak, Undersecretary of State at the Chancellery of the president of the Republic of Poland, read the letter of president of the Republic of Poland Karol Nawrocki
Participants of ceremony ceremonies
late priest Stanisław Małkowski
Ladies and gentlemen,
came to us present to say goodbye – with prayer and memory – an extraordinary man and priest. Witness, associate and hero of Polish history. A priest dedicated to God and his country, but besides to the affairs of all those who are hurt and in need. He risked his life and never put individual benefits and honors ahead of the orders of conscience. Repressed, hurt, overlooked – late priest Stanisław Malkowski always remained faithful to his principles.
A postgraduate of the Reytan and Sociology advanced School of Warsaw at the University of Warsaw, he joined the seminary only after college. The priestly ordination was accepted by Bishop Zbigniew Kraszewski at the hands of the priest and began to service in the Church of Our woman of triumph on Kamionk – a temple erected in the early 1930s as a vot of gratitude for the triumph in the 1920 War. He was active in Polish matters even earlier, from the beginning of adulthood: he participated in the student protests of Marc ’68 and was relegated from the Faculty of doctrine of the University of Warsaw.
He was among 59 signatories – as 1 of 3 clergymen alongside Father Jack Salij and Father John Ziea – a letter of open intellectuals who protested against the planned changes to the PRL Constitution in 1975: writing in it a passage about the leadership function of the PZPR and alliance
with the russian Union. At that time, he besides worked with the Committee for the defence of Workers and the Human Rights and Citizen Defence.
He participated in famines in defence of the imprisoned, organized in the Warsaw Churches of St. Martin and the Holy Cross. besides then, he began supporting the emerging opposition in the countryside, preaching retreats and giving lectures in the Grójecki region. From this movement was born in time NSZZ "Solidarity" of Individual Farmers. In August 1980 Father Malkowski arrived at Gdańsk Shipyard. At the same time, he became very committed as 1 of the first clergymen to the unborn and was co-founder of the 1979 Children's Defence Movement "Gaudium Vitae".
Due to this extraordinary activity, priest Stanisław Małkowski became a hero of many biography and reporting, documentary films and countless memories. He was besides 1 of the people who were closely watched by the Communist safety Service – from October 1970, erstwhile he became a cleric until the collapse of the government 2 decades later. Father Malkowski was followed due to his work with young people, opposition activity and commitment to defending unborn lives. He was surgically worked as “a typical of an enemy Catholic clergy”, utilizing agents, whistleblowers, wiretaps, correspondence control. The papers that have been preserved in the resources of the Institute of National Memory repeat the formulas “covered by investigation”, “surveillated”, “sets up in the files of the Cabinet of the Minister of the Interior”.
Finally, the communist authorities set themselves the goal of "neutralising the hostile activity of Fr Malkowski". He was the only Warsaw clergyman to be detained at night from 12 to 13 December 1981. He was not intimidated, and after his release he continued his activities
in the state of war and in later years. The safety apparatus recognized him as 1 of its most dangerous enemies among the clergy, as well as the Blessed priest Jerzy Popieluszka, with whom Father Malkowski had been friends and co-operated since the 1970s, erstwhile together they organized academic pastoral ministry at the capital Church of St.
Deeply active in matters of Homeland, priest Stanisław Malkowski did not refuse to aid anyone. In the 1980s he held services at the request of the Gdańsk activists of the Freedom and Peace Movement, as well as for the victims of the Katyn crime. Already in free Poland he became active in prison pastoral care and served in hospices. He supported families of children with disabilities and worked as a volunteer at a homeless facility. He besides presided over prayers in Krakowskie Przedmieście after the tragic Smolensk disaster.
He did not experience much honor, he did not receive any benefits. He was barely resident in subsequent parishes and was invited to preach homily and retreats throughout Poland. He could be attributed to words from a poem Wheel, written by his friend, besides a signatory of Memorial 59 – Zbigniew Herbert: “another green bell tree/ blue bell water/ I have a knockout [...]/ hit the board/ and she hints/ dry moralist poem/ yes – yes/ no – no”.
For my generation, the attitude of Father Stanislaw Małkowski remains a evidence to the fact that faithfulness to conscience has its price – but there are values that must not be abandoned regardless of the price. Fr Malkowski seldom spoke of himself and never complained. As assigned for many years to the service of the chaplain at the Northern Municipal Cemetery in Wólka Węglowa, he answered with a unique humor: “What do I do? Work for the underground.” And he added, rather seriously: “I am with the dead. They pray for me, I pray for them.” present we pray for the late priest Stanislaw Małkowski, honored by the Order of the White Eagle in 2021 "in designation of the distinguished merits in pastoral work, for the heroic attitude of the chaplain of «Solidarity», supporting the word and act of fighting for Poland independent and just, standing on the side of good and fact in the defence of inalienable human rights".
Close to the Dead, delight accept the expressions of heartfelt compassion.
Eternal remainder give Him, O Lord, and let eternal light shine unto Him!
With respect
Karol Nawrocki
President of Poland
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Liturgy began with an Easter song “The Winner of Death”. – The Christian ceremony combines the past and the future. What happened was what happened. And it connects by the individual who is. We embrace the past of Father Stanislaw's holy memory. We thank God for his life, for his calling, for his zealous service. For all he did for the Church, for the another man, for the Homeland. For what we know and for what only God knows," said Archbishop Adrian Galbas.
In his homily, Rev. Jan Sikorski stressed that we are saying goodbye to “an extraordinary priest” and 1 of “God's madmen”. He was independent. To pain, in this love of God and of man.
Liturgy began with an Easter song “The Winner of Death”. – The Christian ceremony combines the past and the future. What happened was what happened. And it connects by the individual who is. We embrace the past of Father Stanislaw's holy memory. We thank God for his life, for his calling, for his zealous service. For all he did for the Church, for the another man, for the Homeland. For what we know and for what only God knows," said Archbishop Adrian Galbas.
In his homily, Rev. Jan Sikorski stressed that we are saying goodbye to “an extraordinary priest” and 1 of “God's madmen”. He was independent. To pain, in this love of the Lord God and the love of man," he said. The priest recalled that Fr Stanisław Małkowski was honored with the Order of the White Eagle, the highest state distinction. Referring to the poem "The Grave of Agamemnon" by Juliusz Słowacki, he emphasized that Poland needs eagles, not peacocks and parrots. – Stasiu, give us eagles for our country. God's madmen like you...
