In Poland we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the consecration of the basilica of the Sacred Heart in Krakow combined with the entrustment to the Divine Heart. In June we will renew this act in our Jesuit church in Krakow with the Polish Bishops’ Conference.

Among many initiatives promoting the event and aiming to rediscover the richness of the love of God expressed in the Sacred Heart of Jesus, we have prepared a programme for the youngest, which is called the Heart of Youth.

It consists of 3 parts: Contests, Music and Meeting. All information (in Polish) are on our website and on Facebook event:

We also prepered a short video about this programme:

The contests was addressed to different groups: family teams prepared works inspired by the motto "The Heart of the Family in the Heart of Jesus", school youth made works around the motif " One sees well only with the heart", and youth groups created something based on the theme "In the rhythm of the Heart". The majority of the works received for the contest was done in painting, but there was also literary pieces and some multimedial.

For the musical section we prepared a rap song. The author of this song is thein Poland well-known priest-rapper Jakub Bartczak (140 000 subscriptions YT). With Jesuit scholastics and youth from our ministries, we also produced a video for this song.

The last element are meetings. Because of COVID - 19 we decided to meet online. For the youth we prepared a worship dedicated to the Heart of Jesus. The meeting is a part of „Uwielbieniowa Łódź Ratunkowa” (Youth worship meetings in Lodz) and was broadcasted live from Lodz on YouTube – 28 of May. For children we prepared a cartoon which will be also available on YouTube –on June 5- as part of the „Przepiękne Królestwo” (The most beautiful Kingdom) series for children produced by „Mocni w Duchu” from Łódź.

We are delighted with the great response from children and young people to this programme from many places throughout Poland, not only from the Jesuit parishes or schools. May the joy and enthusiasm of the youth keep us inspired to continue to spread the love that flows from the Sacred Heart.