{"id":31904,"date":"2017-10-22T06:30:56","date_gmt":"2017-10-21T22:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/home\/?p=31904"},"modified":"2017-10-22T00:28:53","modified_gmt":"2017-10-21T16:28:53","slug":"an-inspirational-video-clip-of-st-john-paul-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/2017\/10\/22\/an-inspirational-video-clip-of-st-john-paul-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"An Inspirational Video Clip of St. John Paul II"},"content":{"rendered":"[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”off” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”on” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” src=”http:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/article_stjohnpaul1.jpg” \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”Image Caption” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” text_font=”Arial||||” text_font_size=”12″ text_line_height=”1.3em” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” custom_padding=”||30px|”]\n

ZAIRE – AUGUST 01: John-Paul II in Zaire in August, 1985. (Image: Francois LOCHON\/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]\n

Is there any experience like that of being elected as the Vicar of Christ? Where does the strength and courage come from to utter those fateful words, \u201cI accept.\u201d<\/strong><\/h5>\n

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We have decided to share this clip from the movie Karol: The Man who Became Pope which offers a compelling portrayal of \u00a0this very moment in the life of Karol Wojtyla.<\/h5>\n

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In addition, we highly recommend reading an article done by CNA, reporting the experience of Cardinal Dziwisz, secretary to\u00a0Archbishop Wojty\u0142a, on the day of John Paul\u2019s II election. The original article can be found here<\/em>.<\/a><\/h5>\n

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\u201cIn an article published by the L\u2019Osservatore Romano, reporter Giampaolo Mattei explained that Cardinal Dziwisz was also in St. Peter\u2019s Square on that day and that when Cardinal Felici \u201clater said, \u2018Wojtyla,\u2019 I shouted with joy before I became petrified because I was not with my bishop who had become Pope.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/h5>\n
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The cardinal also tells how the newly elected Pope wondered, \u201cHow will the Romans receive me? What will they say about a Pope from a faraway land? How will they receive a foreign Pope after the most beautiful and important pontificates of the 1900s?\u201d he wondered.<\/em><\/h5>\n

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Cardinal Dziwisz told Mattei that the Pope confided in him his concern about the how the Romans would receive him since he would be \u201covercoming the emotion upon appearing for the first time dressed in white.\u201d \u201cHe also told me that as soon as he appeared before them he felt sure because he perceived a sentiment of hope in the welcome he received from the people in St. Peter\u2019s Square.\u201d<\/em><\/h5>\n

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\u201cIn summary, between the Polish Pope and Rome it was love at first sight<\/strong>. He was very happy and throughout the years when he remembered his initial concern, he did so in order to feel more \u2018Roman from Rome\u2019 than ever,\u201d the cardinal said.<\/em><\/h5>\n

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That night, he continued, \u201cI did not stay at the Vatican but instead I returned to the Polish College.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t sleep.\u00a0 I spent the entire night listening to the news on the radio about how the election of the Cardinal of Krakow was being received, especially in Poland. I realized that the silent Church was beginning to speak through the mouth of the Pope,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/h5>\n

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John Paul II \u201cwas not carried away by the frenzy,\u201d Cardinal Dziwisz said.\u00a0 \u201cHe ate dinner with the cardinals and later retired to the apartment he was assigned to for the conclave, together with the Secretary of State.\u00a0 He shared an apartment with Cardinal Corrado Ursi.\u201d<\/em><\/h5>\n

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That night, Pope John Paul II began writing with his own hand, in Latin, the homily for the next day\u2019s Mass, \u201cin which he would tell the world, \u2018Be not afraid. Open wide the doors to Christ\u2019<\/strong>,\u201d he said.\u00a0 Cardinal Dziwisz revealed that he still conserves the original manuscript of that homily.<\/em><\/h5>\n

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He also recalled that he was asked to be Cardinal Wojtyla\u2019s personal secretary in 1966. \u201cThat day I learned to be close to him. I did so for 39 years, first in Krakow and later in Rome. My clothes were soiled with his blood on May 13, 1981.\u00a0 And I have again recalled the words he wrote for St. Stanislaw, the patron of Poland: if the word does not convert, blood will.\u00a0 I was always close to Karol Wojtyla. Me, a priest caressed by a gift and a mystery.\u201d<\/em><\/h5>\n

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St. John Paul II began writing with his own hand, in Latin, the homily for the next day\u2019s Mass, \u201cin which he would tell the world, \u2018Be not afraid. Open wide the doors to Christ\u2019,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feast-and-solemnities"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Ootw-8iA","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aranzazushrine.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/article_stjohnpaul1.jpg?fit=720%2C473&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31904"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31909,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31904\/revisions\/31909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}