John Paul II - First Pilgrimage to the Motherland - Nowy Targ, June 8, 1979
Homily - Part 3
The Creator gave man the Earth to "tend to it themselves when exposed to" - and on this dominion over the land, man based the basic human right to life. The right to life is combined with man's appointment of family and parenthood: "a man leaves his father and mother to be united to his wife so closely that they become one flesh". And as the Creator yields the earth's providential establishment, he likewise yields a union between two people: man and woman, which results in a new human life. The Creator gave this life-giving union in the First Sacrament, and the Redeemer confirmed man's Sacrament of eternal love and life and gave him a new dignity, placing on him the stamp of His Holiness. The right to life is associated with the right of God, and the power of Christ's cross, from the Sacramental and indissoluble marriage.
I wish, then, dear compatriots, that during my visit, that this sacred right has not seized to shape the life of the Polish land: and here in the sub-Tatry region, and the sub-Carpatian region, and everywhere. It is rightly said that family is the basic unit of social life; it is a basic human commonality. Then, people are dependent on family, because humanity is dependant on family. Therefore, I wish that you are all strong thanks to healthy families. Families that are strong through God. And I wish, that man could fully develop in an indissoluble faith in spouses -- parents, family, and atmosphere, which nothing can replace. And I wish, I pray constantly, that the Polish family gives life, that the Polish family be faithful to the Holy Law of life.
If you violate the human right to life, which starts when one is conceived as a human of the mother's womb, you implicitly impact the whole moral order, which secures the inalienable order of human goods. Life is the first among these goods. The Church protects the rights to life not only because of the majesty of the Creator, who is the first giver of this life, but also due to a human's basic goods.
Now, I would like to turn to the youth, who especially loved these regional sites, and who here looks for not only physical refreshment, but also spiritual rest. "Relax" -- once wrote Norwid -- it means "to start anew". Thus, a human's spiritual rest -- as countless young people feel it -- must lead to finding and developing in each other a "new creation", as it is discussed by Saint Paul. The road to this leads through the word of God, which is read and celebrated with faith and love and through participation in the Sacraments, and above all, the Eucharist. The road s also leads to this by understanding and realizing unity, communion with people, which is birthed from Communion with Christ, with the Eucharist. The road also leads to this by understanding and implementing the service of the Gospel, or diaconal. May you, my dear friends, not relent in this noble effort which allows you to be witnesses of Christ.
Witness, in biblical language, translates to.... martyr.
I command you to Immaculate Mother of God,... he who gave her the whole world is the blessed Maximilian Kolbe.
I commend all of you today, to the Mother of Christ, who reigns here, hosting and mothering in her Ludźmierz sanctuary, as well as in the depths of the Tatry Mountains on Rusinowa glade....how the admired and loved.... servant of God, Albert, from his hermitage in Kalatówki, admired the depth of the Tatra Mountains!
And I commend you to the Mother of Christ in so many other shrines that are spread in the goothills of the Carpathians, Beskid Mountains, Bieszczady, in the Diocese of Tarnow, in the diocese of Przemysl...to the east and the west, toward the Babia Mountain and Pilsko, Giant Mountains, and beyond. And on the whole Polish soil.
Let us embrace the heritage of Christs's faith, and the moral order of St. Stanislaw -- Episcopal and martyr, patron of the Poles" the witness of Christ for so many centuries in our homeland.
Pope John Paul II
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