Logging what I saw on the web on the Theotokos on this Latin Feast of the Lady of Częstochowa

Logging what I saw on the web on the Theotokos on this Latin Feast of the Lady of Częstochowa August 26, 2016

30-years of Solidarity (Polish trade union) mural in Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski (priest Jerzy Popiełuszko in foreground) - by Krugerr (Ostrowiec_Solidarnosc_20100815 (1).jpg) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons
30-years of Solidarity (Polish trade union) mural in Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski (priest Jerzy Popiełuszko in foreground) – by Krugerr (Ostrowiec_Solidarnosc_20100815 (1).jpg) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons
My friend Artur Rosman put up a beautiful prayer that Blessed Jerzy Popiełuszko (a martyr about whom Eugenia has also guest-blogged here as Latin Catholic Person) wrote in 1982 for the Black Madonna. I shared it on my Facebook, and I’ll share the prayer in full here as well:

Mother of those who place their hope in Solidarity, pray for us.
Mother of those who are deceived, pray for us.
Mother of those who are betrayed, pray for us.
Mother of those who are arrested in the night, pray for us.
Mother of those who are imprisoned, pray for us.
Mother of those who suffer from the cold, pray for us.
Mother of those who have been frightened, pray for us.
Mother of those who were subjected to interrogations, pray for us.
Mother of those innocents who have been condemned, pray for us.
Mother of those who speak the truth, pray for us.
Mother of those who cannot be corrupted, pray for us.
Mother of those who resist, pray for us.
Mother of orphans, pray for us.
Mother of those who have been molested because they wore your image, pray for us.
Mother of those who are forced to sign declarations
contrary to their conscience, pray for us.
Mother of mothers who weep, pray for us.
Mother of fathers who have been so deeply saddened, pray for us.
Mother of suffering Poland, pray for us.
Mother of always faithful Poland, pray for us.
We beg you, O mother in whom resides the hope of millions of people, grant us to live in liberty and in truth, in fidelity to you and to your Son. Amen.


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