Tadeusz Rusnak

"The atmosphere was to be honest very solemn as everyone felt the signifcance of the events taking place and the expectations and thus the Holy Mass in the intention of the success of the negotiations, right. I don't remember the sermon any more of father Orzechowski, I really don't. All I remember were crowds of people who came to the Holy Mass. Nothing else. (...) Since I was sort of isolated from the city, due to the fact that as a deacon I had my duties to fulfill in the parish, I didn't always know what was going on downtown. Most probably I heard various bits and pieces of stories but my reaction could not have been different. I could not as a priest or a deacon engage directly, but during the Holy Mass-that was exactly my place."

"First of all, participation in the Holy Mass was unique. They participated. Noone was there accidentally, that you just stand and think of something else. I guess that the greatest impression, since father Orzechowski speaks very well and knows how to call a spade a spade. The sermon was the most important at that very moment for these people. Silence and applause, these are the signs of this engagement. People were hungry for the truth, for the Word. I remember, I gave a sermon at Zabobrze, walking for catechesis there, after which I was running straight back to the church as it was high time and then I heard someone whispering: " Father do tell them, please do tell them". These communists. " And the priest told them". So people expected the priest to show them, the communists, but he then was left alone wasn't he."