Two years before his death, on Holy Thursday, he announces his last encyclical letter to the world: the Eucharist. “For more than half a century – he wrote in conclusion – every day, beginning on 2 November 1946, when I celebrated my first Mass in the Crypt of Saint Leonard in Wawel Cathedral in Krakow, my eyes have gazed in recollection upon the host and the chalice, where time and space in some way “merge” and the drama of Golgotha is re-presented in a living way, thus revealing its mysterious “contemporaneity”. Each day my faith has been able to recognize in the consecrated bread and wine the divine Wayfarer who joined the two disciples on the road to Emmaus and opened their eyes to the light and their hearts to new hope”. The Archbishop says that he will always carry in his heart the image of John Paul II, who in the morning was waiting for them in the chapel, immersed in prayer, slightly hunched over, absent. Talking to the Lord God before he will unite with Him in the Eucharist. And, then the sight with love focused on a white wafer. Before or after, I have never seen anyone so in love with God… says the former secretary.
With the consent of Archbishop Mieczysław Mokrzycki – “Place for everyone”
Znak Publishing House, Kraków 2013.
