This was the dramatic appeal of the young pilgrims from Venezuela who participate in the World Youth Day in Panama! They waved a 60-meter-long flag of their country before the ceremony of the opening of WYD.

Let us join in prayer for the afflicted nation
and country of Venezuela!

On 1 January 2019 an article about the Work of the “12 Stars in the Crown of Mary Queen of Peace” was published in the National Catholic Register. We invite you to reading it:

https://m.ncregister.com/59021/d

A design of the Chapel of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament by the Parish of St. James in Medjugorie was entrusted to the artistic atelier “Drapikowski Studio” from Gdansk, Poland.

As Mr. Piotr Ciołkiewicz, the President of “Comunità Regina della Pace” says: “The International Center of Prayer for Peace has come into existence at the moment of handing over the Monstrance in 2011, performed by “Drapikowski Studio” too. It was a moment of symbolic joining of the Medjugorie Parish into the Work of “The 12 Stars in the Crown of Mary Queen of Peace”.

The design which is being prepared now encompasses the Chapel together with the Altar of Adoration and it will be “adapted”, so to say, to the existing Monstrance.

In order that the project might be carried out, a significant support is needed, that’s why we would like to ask everyone to pray, request Holy Masses and offer any sacrifice possible for this intention.

In the Shrine of Our Lady of Jasna Góra in Częstochowa 30 Holy Masses will be offered for this
intention from March 1 st until March 31 st , at 7:00 a.m.

In November 2018, under the spiritual care of Association’s Moderator, HE Archbishop Tomash Peta, the representatives of “Comunita Regina della Pace” made a pilgrimage to Medjugorie, one of the Centers of Prayer for Peace created within the Work of “The 12 Stars in the Crown of Mary Queen of Peace”.

Up the Krizevac hill…

Close to Our Lady…

Krizevac, November 2018.

September 2018

In the most recent interview given by Mr. Piotr Ciołkiewicz in Niepokalanów to EWTN Poland, the President of “Communita Regina della Pace” Association invited all to join in Eucharistic Adoration for peace. It is available online via EWTN Poland webpage.

He said that Eucharistic Jesus is a Lighthouse for us, guiding us through sometimes troubled waters of life, towards a safe harbor.

Mr. Ciołkiewicz also reminded the history of the project called “The 12 Stars in the Crown of Mary Queen of Peace”, which started in Medjugorie in 2006 and was inspired by the teachings of St. John Paul II, the great Advocate of Peace.

19 September 2018

Just before the Inauguration of the “Star of the Immaculate” in Niepokalanów, on 1 September 2018, the artists Mr. Mariusz and Mr. Kamil Drapikowski gave an interview to EWTN Poland in the Chapel of Perpetual Adoration.

They shortly recalled the providential circumstances of creation of International Centers of Prayer for Peace already existing in different parts of the world as well as underlined that the “Stars in the Crown of Mary”, humanly speaking, appear in the regions stricken by wars and different kinds of persecutions, but in fact it is the Holy Spirit who leads the way.

Later on, they recounted how the dreams of the artists from Gdansk (Poland) turned out unexpectedly to converge with the dreams of the great Saint Maximilian Maria Kolbe who gave himself totally to the Immaculate. When the project of “The Star of the Immaculate” was already on, Fr. Andrew Sasiadek, the parish priest of Niepokalanów found by coincidence an unknown letter of St. Maximilian where he presented his dream of building a huge Basilica with a statue of the Immaculate who, opening her arms, would hold with love her Son, Jesus in the Eucharist… Moved by this discovery, the artist together with Mr. Piotr Ciołkiewicz, the President of the “Communita Regina della Pace” Association would see it as a sign confirming that the Providence wanted this project to be realized in Niepokalanów.

Finally, Mr. Mariusz recalled how the statue of Our Lady in the Altar “The Star of the Immaculate” would touch the heart of one of the seers from Kibeho (Rwanda), who normally calm and peaceful, would exclaim seeing the project of the altar: “That’s how Our Lady looks like, that’s how She looks like! Why haven’t you made such a statue for Kibeho?”. Last but not least, the artist evoked a touching moment of personal talk with the Holy Father in the Vatican during the ceremony of the blessing of the Altar on 29 August 2018. Kissing the hand of Our Lady, Pope Francis said: “It is very good that She is so “ethereal” and so very beautiful…”.

In these opinions one can see the fulfilment of the idea which inspires the artists from Gdansk:

to create the beauty in order to help people pray.

Photo by EWTN Poland