Friday, April 08, 2005

if you haven't read the pope's will, you kind of should. here's the very last bit of it, written in march 2000:

As the end of my life approaches I return with my
memory to the beginning, to my parents, to my brother,
to the sister (I never knew because she died before my
birth), to the parish in Wadowice, where I was
baptized, to that city I love, to my peers, friends
from elementary school, high school and the
university, up to the time of the occupation when I
was a worker, and then in the parish of Niegowic, then
St. Florian's in Krakow, to the pastoral ministry of
academics, to the milieu of ... to all milieux ... to
Krakow and to Rome ... to the people who were
entrusted to me in a special way by the Lord.

To all I want to say just one thing: "May God reward
you."

"In manus tuas, Domine, commendo spiritum meum."

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