The Cross of Christ is precisely the proof of this. In our Polish land the Cross has had its own history now for over 1,000 years. It is the history of salvation which has been written into the history of the great human community that is our nation. Sixteen years have passed since then and those words become ever more timely. Certainly one can.
Man is free.
Man can say 'no' to Christ. Today, as Poland lays the foundations for its free and sovereign existence, after experiencing so many years of totalitarianism, these words must be recalled. Today it is heard here in Skoczow. And now he receives his faithful disciple into the mystery of the Communion of Saints. He leads him to the deepest springs of life.