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As every year on September 19, at noon, the Jesuits under the leadership of Bishop Luke Buzun OSSPE came to Kalisz to thank God  for the fact that during the People's Republic of Poland. Thanks to the intercession of St. Joseph, the religious houses of the Society of Jesus were not liquidated. Such a threat was hanging by a thread.  Then the Polish Jesuits trusted the whole order to the care of St. Joseph and were not disappointed.

In his sermon, Fr.  Provincial Tomasz Ortmann SJ, commenting on the Gospel about the loss of the Lord Jesus in the temple, said that even those who are companions of Jesus, can lose him.  “If it happened to Mary and Joseph, it can happen to us all the more.  He also pointed out that in the image of the Holy Family worshipped in the Shrine of Kalisz, it is clear that it is little Jesus who guides them by the hands, and not they guide Him.

The Jesuit pilgrimage to St. Joseph's Shrine in Kalisz is a time of conversion, which the Jesuit understands as a struggle with himself to change his heart and mind in order to be guided by Jesus.  An important fruit of this conversion should be a deep conviction that wherever the Jesuit is, he should be there, not in his own affairs, but in the affairs of his Father. “

At the end of the common Eucharist, the Jesuits repeated the words of trust with which each year they reassured St. Joseph that they would consistently follow Jesus.

As every year, a Jesuit song was sung:  "Mother has, my Order" and all went for a common feast to the Jesuit religious house a few hundred meters away from the Sanctuary.

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