On August 26, the spokesperson for the Polish Episcopal Conference, Jesuit Father Leszek Gęsiak, celebrated Mass for those attending the meeting at the Sanctuary of Saint John Paul II in Krakow, southern Poland.
WARSAW, Poland – The president of the Polish Catholic Bishops’ Conference has sent his blessing to a meeting of EWTN affiliates and partners in Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, southern Poland.
Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki offered his blessing in a video recorded for the European meeting of EWTN affiliates and partners from August 26-29.
Forty people from 15 countries participated in the event, including Ksenija Abramović, the director of Laudato TV, a Catholic television channel in Croatia affiliated with EWTN.
“I always come back from EWTN European meetings with new inspirations for my TV,” she commented.
EWTN is the largest religious media network in the world. Its 11 television channels are broadcast in multiple languages 24 hours a day, seven days a week to more than 350 million TV households in more than 145 countries and territories.
EWTN is currently celebrating the 40th anniversary of its founding by Mother Angelica.
Speakers at the four-day meeting in Poland included Monsignor Tomasz Trafny, priest of the Archdiocese of Lublin and official of the Pontifical Council for Culture, and Father Paweł Rytel-Andrianik, director of the Foreign Communication Office of the Episcopal Conference Polish. .
Guests from various branches of EWTN and its partner TV stations – including Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and Poland – also gave talks.
On August 26, the spokesperson for the Polish Episcopal Conference, Jesuit Father Leszek Gęsiak, celebrated Mass for those attending the meeting at the Sanctuary of Saint John Paul II in Krakow, southern Poland.
Bishop Andrzej Siemieniewski of Legnica presided over the August 27 Mass in the Chapel of the Miraculous Image of Merciful Jesus and the Tomb of Saint Faustina Kowalska in Krakow.
On August 28, Monsignor Trafny offered Mass at the Basilica of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Wadowice, where Polish Pope Saint John Paul II was baptized in 1920.
Father Teofil Czarniak, provincial of the Immaculate Conception province of the Order of Friars Minor, celebrated Mass on August 29 in the chapel of the sanctuary of Kalwaria Zebrzydowska.
Reflecting on the importance of the meeting, which brought together professionals to share their skills, Ulf Silfverling of EWTN Nordic said, “Together we can do more.”
