Solidarity Needs Responsibility

Our Lady of Kibeho, pray for us to Christ!

Both beginning and the end of 1980s, are mainly associated with the activity and subsequent victory of Poland's Solidarity Movement.

The time, interestingly, has been marked by some other crucial – yet not much known – events; they are, in my opinion, of the most importance for the whole world just as the Solidarity's victory is.

I speak of the Kibeho's Apparitions (1981-1989) that were officially approved by the Church in 2001.

During one of them, Our Lady, reportedly, said:

The world is reining at its loss, it is going to fall into an abyss that means to be plunged into innumerable and unceasing misfortunes. 

That her words had been true, we all saw a few years later, observing the Rwandan Genocide.

The fact should not be taken for granted and, moreover, needs to be seen as a kind of warning to so-called  Solidarity Generation and to us all; it is so, for truly political freedom may not be enough, if it is not leading to man's good choices.
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Tomasz, Racibórz +

P.S. Please pray for me(I feel lonely at times) and for the other Solidarity's Children.

The suffering that saves (please do not make her cry)

''No one likes to suffer'' – in this phrase can, unfortunately, be found a lot of truth.

I said unfortunately, for where there's no place for obedience of many  – as it is in our modern, based on almost add(ct)itive gaining of pleasures world – there should be an openness for the voluntary suffering of some.

However I am quite well acquainted with the apparitions of Fatima, Lourdes, and Knock, non of these struck me so much as the apparitions of Kibeho did. Kibeho is a small town located in Rwanda, where some visionaries claim to have seen Immaculata crying on August 15, 1982.

I bet that Our Lady herself do not wanted to suffer, both at the foot of the Cross, about 2000 years ago, and recently – because of our sins.

Yet she had been suffering willingly for us all, knowing – what is now the well known part of Kibeho's message:

''No one will reach heaven without suffering''.

Mary, conceived without sin, teach us how to endure our suffering patiently, that is without making you cry any more.

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Tomasz, Racibórz