The first months of the year are for our Foundation, due to the ongoing pandemic, mainly formative and pastoral work on the Internet. This year, we have been developing the Liturgia.pl website very intensively and implementing projects with the internet users visiting it in mind, but of course we did not give up our key real-world events.

In January, we created a a series of conversations about the Bible in the liturgy on the occasion of the Word of God Sunday – in the relationship with the inability to organize an annual open day – we invited our recipients to a “three presidents” interview (Tomasz Grabowski, OP, Dominik Jurczak, OP, Łukasz Miśko, OP) about the condition of the liturgy in the Polish Church and the formative role played by our Foundation over the years. The interview was conducted by KAI journalist Dawid Gospodarek. Another proposal, at the threshold of the Paschal Triduum, was the catechesis “The bee or the hare” in the form of a live broadcast.

From February to June, Łukasz Miśko OP led a remote seminar (5 meetings) around David Fagerberg’s book “Consecrating the World” with an average of 40 participants. However, from April to June, we realized the second season of the podcast video entitled “zDOLni”. In 6 episodes we talked, among others on the Gregorian chant, the international catechumenate, the work of the sacristan, the role of the cantor and the need for the theology of the liturgy.

In March, we organized a “silent procession” in Krakow, similar to a similar event in Amsterdam, combined with performances of liturgical music on the Eucharistic theme in the basilicas of the Holy Trinity and Corpus Christi.

In June and July, we organized two performances of the choral-jazz mystery “Noli me tangere” dedicated to St. Maria Magdalena (in Kraków and Wrocław).

In August, we organized our key project Extraordinary Music Workshop in Krakow, over 300 participants took part. In September, however, we conducted XIV Liturgical Retreat Mysterium fascinans, dedicated to current, difficult topics of liturgical life. 100 participants took part in the stationary and another 100 remotely.

Also in September, we organized a concert Miserere mei, during which the first performance of Dawid Kusz OP under the same title for string quartet and vocal octet was performed. The last music project of the year was the “Open Up Heaven” Advent Project. It was a concert during which gathered were invited to sing together traditional Advent songs, the artistic arrangement of which for choir and orchestra (19 instruments) prepared by Dawid Kusz, OP was then performed.

This year the Foundation entered into cooperation with the WAM Jesuits’ Publishing House, creating a new the book series Mysterium Fascinans, devoted to issues of liturgical theology. This year’s series includes two titles: Timothy P. O’Malley, Liturgy and New Evangelization; and Krzysztof Porosło (ed.), Pray the Holy Mass.

At the turn of November and December our new CD with Dominican carols “Śpij, Jezu, śpij” (Sleep, Jesus, sleep), referring to its predecessor from 18 years ago – the album “Jezu, śliczny Kwiecie” (Jesus, Lovely Flower). The premiere was accompanied by music videos, made in cooperation with Dominikanie.pl. By the end of the year, the first edition was almost entirely sold.

Until June 2021, two groups (Polish and English) were conducted to prepare adults for admission Christian initiation sacraments at the Holy Trinity Monastery in Krakow; we have been continuing the management of the Polish group since October. The Foundation constantly promotes Gregorian singing by conducting the Vigilantes choir (liturgical vigils partially broadcast on-line) and the San Clemente Singing Brotherhood. We also run shops (online and stationary) with liturgical music CDs, songbooks, audiobooks and religious literature.

Over the last year, the brothers involved in the Center gave many radio and television interviews, and published texts popularizing knowledge about the liturgy, especially those related to the participation in liturgical and sacramental life during a pandemic, incl. in Radio Kraków, Radio eM from Katowice and EWTN television.

The occasion to unofficially summarize the year-long efforts of our team (composed of Dominican brothers, lay Dominicans and lay workers) was a Christmas meeting with an extended family circle. Later, we only need to dynamically start further work in the New Year 2022 – we are preparing many thrilling proposals for you and we look forward to numerous opportunities for creative meetings!