The Polish participants of the Congress prayed the Divine Mercy Chaplet in the Church of Sts. Peter and Paul. The prayer was presided over by Bishop Grzegorz Ry�. The people congregated listened to the lecture delivered by Rev. Professor Henryk Wejman from KUL [the Catholic University of Lublin] who talked about Christian mercy in John Paul II’s teaching. “Man is that much merciful as he stays faithful to his dignity” – the bishop said. “Love, according John Paul II, is exclusively two-way, not a one-way gift”. In authentic love a giver is a receiver, and a receiver is a giver of mercy” – he emphasized.

A group of about 100 people came to the Church of Piarists, Cracow. They listened to, among the others, the lecture by Edith Olk, PhD. She talked about those peculiar moments of John Paul II’s life in which the acting of the Divine Mercy was most disclosed. The speaker indicated other examples of people – St. Edyta Stein and St. Maximilian Kolbe – who conquered the evil with their love acts.

The Lithuanians, Filipinos, Americans as well as representatives from Burundi, Korea and Ireland formed an international praying community in the Basilica of Dominican Fathers. The church was filled with the Congress participants, dressed in colourful, national clothing, who all recited the Divine Mercy Chaplet. They were spontaneously joined by the Cracow residents, allured by joyful and lively chants, shouts and loud cheers.
As described by our reporter the Church of Franciscan Fathers was filled to the brim with the worshippers of the Divine Mercy – the prevailing language group was the Italian. The congregated believers were addressed to by Bishop Domenico Cancian. He presented a few images of mercy – the merciful father, the crucified Jesus, the love commandment, the Blessed Virgin Mary and the saints – Sister Faustina, Francis of Assisi and Theresa of Lisieux. “God is not a severe judge, but a Father full of mercy, possessing a lot of  mother’s tenderness” – said the Italian bishop. Rev. Professor Jan Machniak focused on the mystery of the Divine Mercy as revealed in St. Sister Faustina’s “Diary”. After the meeting in the Franciscan Basilica the group of Congress participants walked in a joyful procession up to the Church of St. Adalbert, where in the evening the “Credo” performance prepared by the Cenacolo community group is to take place.

A hugely vigorous and merry atmosphere pulsated in St. Ann Church. It was the Spanish-speaking group that gathered there. In the filled to the full church prayed the pilgrims from Spain, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Guatemala, Chile and Paraguay. Festively dressed, with blue and white shawls, some of them with red and white ribbons pinned to clothes – they formed a colourful and singing community of worshippers. After the 3-o’clock Prayer they gathered in St. Ann Church to listen to the lecture by Professor Bogdan Piotrowski who talked about the Divine Mercy in John Paul II’s teaching. The speaker focused on the Polish Pope’s emphasis that no sin ever can destroy man and his relationship with God, for God’s Mercy is immeasurable. The testimony of St. Faustina – “merciful in the merciless world” – was discussed by sister Gaudia Skass ZMBM [The Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy].
The faithful from Hungary, along with their bishops, prayed in St. Stephen Church, and the French group in the Church of the Holy Cross.

After the prayer and the lecture on the Divine Mercy with the Message of St. Sister Faustina, the Congress attendees met before the St. Mary’s Basilica.

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