M2016 Sonja H264
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♫Idzie mój Pan, idzie mój Pan...
>Here comes my Lord, here comes my Lord...
...On teraz biegnie by spotkać mnie♫
...Watch as He runs to meet me<
From the start I was in dance from a very young age
I started playing piano and then violin and then flute
And then I started singing and singing was really where I felt that my heart was
♫Bóg kocha mnie takiego, jakim jestem...
>God loves me, the way I am...
...Raduje się każdym moim gestem♫
...He's happy with every of my deeds<
I had come to Kraków backpacking
a year before coming on research
and I had fallen in love with the city
so I also wanted to come back and I wanted to stay
and through prayer I felt that God was bringing me to Poland, leading me to Poland
and I couldn't read the language,
I couldn't speak the language
I couldn't express myself, or really know where I was going
but where I really felt at home was in the church
any church that I walked in I felt
"Ok, this is home".
There is adoration, there are hundreds of masses a day
and the churches are full, the masses are full
the lines for confession are long
and just a strong reverent culture that
surrounds me in this city.
But I also work with disabled children
with Hosanna House & Children's
Pilgrimage Trust of Poland
which takes children to Lourdes
every Easter for a week-long pilgrimage
and I love these kids so much.
I think we forget about
as we get older or just as we get busy in our lives
we forget this simple joy that God has given us
and they... they love so freely and I think
that's something we forget to do
♫Błogosławieni miłosierni...
>Blessed are the merciful
...Albowiem oni miłosierdzia dostąpią♫
...For they shall receive mercy!<
So we're leaving on Saturday and
we'll be there for one week
with probably a thousand disabled children
and children with support needs
and we are performing "Błogosławieni miłosierni"
the official hymn, for all the rest of the children
and inviting them to Kraków,
inviting them to World Youth Day this July.
Some of the kids were dreaming about
going to Lourdes for years
And this is their dream, they wanted to go
and they finally get to go
and we're all very very excited to go, yeah,
Been looking forward to it all year!
Cześć!
>Hello there!<
Oh, ale fajny pokój!
>What a great little room!<
Ale ładne! Bardzo ładne!
>This is so gorgeous!<
To z Lourdes! Tak!
>This is from Lourdes! Yes!<
Moje marzenie się spełniło w tym roku
>My dream became true this year,
pojechania do Lourdes samolotem.
to travel to Lourdes by plane.<
I mi się spełniło!
>And it came true!
I tam będziemy chodzić na pielgrzymkę.
And we will go there as pilgrims<
A, no tak!
>Of course!<
And on this pilgrimage I've done some photography
but I also lead music
and I don't speak Polish so well, I'm getting better
So we're just able to connect through music
through dancing, through laughter
and they... really, thinking about them
makes me want to stay here forever,
and be with them.
When I was in university I was so busy
and I was involved in so many things
to the point where I was just exhausted
and tired and weary
and I didn't know what I was doing
And I went on a retreat my last semester
of my senior year
and it was early on in the semester, maybe January
and that changed everything, I had a huge conversion
and I just realized: Ok, I really need to take time
for the important things in life
for the people around me, the relationships
instead of these accomplishments I was striving after
I think what we so often forget is that
our witness is way more powerful than
anything we could ever say
and I think that's part of the problem that people have
with the Church community
is that they hear the Church community saying
Love the Lord thy God first
and act with this mercy and this compassion
and we don't.
You know, and we're human
so that will continue but I think
it's programmed within us
God has written it in our hearts
we strive for this greater goodness.
God can work through us in ways
we could never even imagine
and I think if we just open up to that
we can change the world, He can change
the world through us.
Gotta be ready!
I was looking one day and saw the advertisement
through a little information box
about the World Youth Day Choir and Orchestra
and I thought: WHAT?
This is so great, I want to be part of this so bad!
Then I made arrangements for the audition
and if I couldn't then I would be there to enjoy the choir
and be there with music and whatever way I could be
and I don't know what it will look like
I've never been to a World Youth Day before
I know it will be crazy but it will be amazing
Yes! I will definitely wait with you at World Youth Day!