Subj : =?UTF-8?Q?6_June_=E2=80=93_Blessed_Innocenty_J=C3=B3zef_Wojciech_Guz_OF To : All From : rich Date : Sat Jun 05 2021 10:22:02 From: rich 6 June =E2=80=93 Blessed Innocenty J=C3=B3zef Wojciech Guz OFM =C2 (1890-1940) =C2 Priest of the Franciscan Conventual and Martyr of the Nazi Regime =E2= =80=93 born as J=C3=B3zef Adalbert Guz on 8 March 1890 in Lemberg, Austria (present-day Poland) and died from trauma resulting from having a charged fire hose stuffed down his throat on 6 June 1940 in the prison camp at Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg, Oberhavel, Germany. He was 50 years old. Additional Memorial =E2=80=93 12 June as one of the 108 Polish Martyrs= of World War II. After high school Jozef tried to join the Jesuits but was turned down. On 25 August 1908 he joined the Franciscans, taking the name Innocenty. He studied philosophy and theology in Krakow, Poland and was ordained on 2 June 1914. He served as a Parish Priest in a number of cities and worked with Saint Maximilian Kolbe. He was a confessor to a Franciscan monastery at Niepokalan=C3=B3w, Poland from 1933 to 1936, vice-master of clerics and singing teacher in the minor seminary and Parish Priest in Grodno, Poland. He was imprisoned by invading Russia troops on 21 March 1940 for the crime of being a Polish Priest but he managed to escape and went to the German zone, where he was arrested by the Gestapo. He was sent to several prisons before finally ending at the concentration camp at Sachsenhausen where he was severely beaten and put to forced labour. When he could not work, owing to a broken leg, he was nearly drowned and finally murdered. He was Beatified on 13 June 1999 by St Pope John Paul II at Warsaw, Poland. Below are the Franciscan Martyrs of the World War II. See https://anastpaul.com/2020/06/ =E2=80=A6.=E2=80=9CLearn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart=E2=80= =9D (Mt 11:29). =E2=80=9CIf anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself and take u= p his cross and follow me=E2=80=9D (Mt 16:24). =E2=80=9CThy shalt love the Lord thy God, with they whole heart and with th= ey whole soul=E2=80=9D (Mt 22:37). Anyone who practises these precepts and all others which are contained in the Gospel, is sincerely devoted to the Sacred Heart. If anyone neglects to put them into practice but is satisfied with prayers, aspirations and the performance of spiritual exercises, his devotion is empty and has no foundation. These prayers, aspirations and pious practices have their value, insofar, as they can attract God's grace. But, we must co-operate with God's grace by our good actions. Then our devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, will be sincere and effecti= ve.`` --Antonio Cardinal Bacci Saint Quote: Truly we are passing through disastrous times, when we may well make our own the lamentation of the Prophet: "There is no truth, and there is no mercy, and there is no knowledge of God in the land" (Hosea 4:1). Yet in the midst of this tide of evil, the Virgin Most Merciful rises before our eyes like a rainbow, as the arbiter of peace between God and man. -- Pope Saint Pius X Bible Quote 1 The former treatise I made, O Theophilus, of all things which Jesus began to do and to teach, 2 Until the day on which, giving commandments by the Holy Ghost to the apostles whom he had chosen, he was taken up. 3 To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion, by many proofs, for forty days appearing to them, and speaking of the kingdom of God.=C2 (Acts 1:1-3) <><><><> Devotion to the Sacred Head WISDOM of the Sacred Head, guide me in all my ways. O Love of the Sacred, consume me with Thy fire. (Three Glorias, in honour of the Divine Will, Memory and Understanding.) O Seat of Divine Wisdom, and guiding Power, which governs all the motions and love of the Sacred Heart, may all minds know Thee, all hearts love Thee, and all tongues praise Thee, now and for evermore. --- NewsGate v1.0 gamma 2 * Origin: News Gate @ Net396 -Huntsville, AL - USA (1:396/4) .