Tadeusz Rusnak

"Maybe I was lucky to be here, on the apprenticeship in Wrocław. I could have ended up on an apprenticeship somewhere far from Wrocław. My diaconal apprenticeship took place at St. Maurice, in the parish in the city centre . And when we found out, I'm not sure how anymore and from whom, that father Orzechowski is supposed to give Holy Mass, we sort of got together. That is all the lads who also had an apprenticeship in Wrocław, a diaconal one. Here, I have a photo of these guys. This one is, as I wrote here: Józef Hałka-these days he is back a secular man, father Stanisław Orzechowski, Adam Prażak, deacon-today already a vicar, parish priest and deacon Eugeniusz Jacyszyn. And we are servicing this Holy Mass with father Orzechowski who was our professor at the seminary, he lectured in pastoral theology."

"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."