Dzieło Duchowej Adopcji Dziecka Poczętego w kościele pw. Ducha Świętego w Warszawie

Abstract

The idea and practice of Spiritual Adoption is like an answer to the Fatima call of the Mother of God to the Rosary prayer, penance and reparation made for sins that offend her Immaculate Heart. The initiative of this work was born in 1987 when in the January issue of the „Rycerz Niepokalanej” (Knight of the Immaculate) Paweł Milcarek published a text of daily prayer regarding the spiritual adoption of conceived children in danger of abortion. The Pauline Fathers from the Holy Spirit church in Warsaw became interested in the idea. All in all, it is a personal nine-month prayer for one person in order to save the life of one conceived child, whose identity is known only to God. The adoption commitment precedes the respective promise. With time, the practice of this kind of prayer has spread all over Poland. Currently, this phenomenon is also known in Europe and on other continents. In the Church of the Holy Spirit in Warsaw, up to ten thousand people have taken over the spiritual adoption. The full name of the initiative is: Spiritual Adoption of the Conceived Endangered Child. It is in the official letter of the Holy See of April 25, 1994 addressed to the prior of Jasna Gora, Father Szczepan Kosnik (under this name Pope John Paul II granted her an apostolic blessing). The presented text also contains interesting testimonies of people who have undertaken the spiritual adoption. They are proof that the initiative in question brings real effects not only of a religious nature. Above all, it awakens people’s consciences and shapes the spirit of responsibility for the lives of conceived children.