Europe of Dialogue

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Friday, 16 September

11.00 Prayer

prayers during the Convention are led by a special vocal ensemble and the three chaplains of the Convention: a Roman Catholic one, an Eastern Orthodox one and an Evangelical one

Opening

• Marcin Przeciszewski, Chairman of the Organising Committee of the Convention

Welcoming Address

• Archbishop Henryk Muszyński, Metropolitan of Gniezno
• Archbishop Jeremiasz, Eastern Orthodox Archbishop of Wrocław and Szczecin, President of the Polish Ecumenical Council

Greetings

• Stanisław Mikołajczak, Marshal of Wielkopolska Voivodeship

Message from the Holy Father presented by Archbishop Stanisław Ryłko, President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity

Message from Bartholomeos I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople presented by a representative of the Patriarch

11.30 Dialogue and Compromise as the Basis of the Activity of the European Union

• Jarosław Pietras, Polish Minister for European Affairs

11.45The Europe-Church Dialogue: Challenges for Today

• Ján Figel, EU Commissioner for Education, Training, Culture and Multilingualism

12.15The Church-Europe Dialogue: Challenges for Today

• Archbishop Henryk Muszyński, Metropolitan of Gniezno

12.45 The Church - Europe Dialogue: Challenges for Today

• Archbishop Ioannis Zizioulas, Eastern Orthodox Metropolitan of Pergamon

13.15Lunch

14.45Prayer

John Paul II – Master of Dialogue

• Maciej Zięba OP, Provincial of Polish Dominicans, Director of the Terio Millennio Institute

15.15Debate about European values

A Secular Europe, a Christian Europe – One Europe

• Danuta Hübner, EU Commissioner for Regional Policy
• Mona Siddiqui, Director of the Centre for the Study of Islam, University of Glasgow
• Hanna Suchocka, former Prime Minister of Poland, Ambassador of Poland to the Holy See
• Rocco Buttiglione, Italian Minister for European Affairs
• Shevah Weiss, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Council

Moderated by Kamil Durczok (TVP)

Questions from the Audience

16.45Break

17.15Prayer

College Debate about the role of Christians in contemporary culture

The Christian Culture – Between the Rebirth of Christianitas and a Christian Ghetto

• Chantal Millon Delsol, professor of philosophy
• Teresa Maria Reklewska, the author of stained glasses used in the artistic project of the Convention
• Daniel Cibotea, Eastern Orthodox Metropolitan Jassy (Romania)
• Marek Izdebski, bishop of the Evangelical-Reformed Church in Poland
• Myroslav Marynovych, Deputy President of the Ukrainian Catholic University
• Gabriel Nissim OP, The World Catholic Association for Communication
• Archbishop Józef Życiński, Metropolitan of Lublin, philosopher

Moderated by Bogdan Rymanowski (TVN)

Questions from the Audience

17.15Prayer

TentDialogue between the Churches and the European Union in the framework of the Constitution for Europe

• Ján Figel, EU Commissioner for Education, Training, Culture and Multilingualism
• rev. Aldo Giordano, CCEE Secretary General
• rev. Rüdiger Noll, Director of the “Church and Society” Commission, KEK Associate General Secretary
• rev. Noël Treanor, COMECE Secretary General
• Jarosław Pietras, Polish Minister for European Affairs
• Tadeusz Zieliński, professor of theology, Christian Academy of Theology

Moderated by Dr. Michaël Weninger, a member of the Group of Policy Advisers, the European Commission

Questions from the Audience

17.15Prayer

Poland – a Catholic One or an Ecumenical One? (in Polish only)

Hall

• Jerzy Buzek, former Prime Minister of Poland, Lutheran
• rev. Michał Czajkowski, Catholic theologian, co-Chairman of the Polish Council of Christians and Jews
• Marek Jurek, politician, essayist
• Michał Klinger, Eastern Orthodox theologian, former Ambassador of Poland to Romania
• Mufti Tomasz Miśkiewicz, head of the Polish Muslims’ Association
• Archbishop Henryk Muszyński, Metropolitan of Gniezno
• rev. Lech Tranda, pastor of the Warsaw Evangelical-Reformed parish
• Shevah Weiss, former Ambassador of Israel to Poland

Moderated by Katarzyna Kolenda-Zaleska (TVN 24)

Questions from the Audience

18.45 Dinner (for the participants of the Convention)

18.45 (for the inhabitants of Gniezno and its vicinity)

Ecumenical Bible services in the Roman-Catholic churches in the city and its vicinity with homilies delivered by non-Catholic Christian clergymen (following a common, specially prepared scenario)

20.00Open-air concert in the Gniezno marketplace

Music of various cultures in the Europe of dialogue

(TV rebroadcast on TVP 2)

Prayer in song by choirs of different denominations, artistic supervisor: Marcin Pospieszalski, with the message “Music of Christians – Music of Unity “ and witnesses of faith: Fr. Daniel Ange (Roman-Catholic Church), Rev. Leszek Czyż (Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession), Rev. Nicolae Tanase (Romanian Orthodox Church)

at the end: a joint singing of the choirs

Saturday, 17 September

8.45An Ecumenical Feast of the Bible

HallA Bible service led by ministers of different Christian denominations with elements of theatre/pantomime

9.45Ecumenical debate

What will the Ecumenism of the 21st Century be Like?

• Cardinal Walter Kasper, President of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity

10.05Can Europe Breathe with One Lung?

• Bishop Hilarion, bishop of Vienna and Austria, Representative of the Russian Orthodox Church to the European Institutions in Brussels

10.25Christian Diversity and the Unification of Europe

• Bishop Wolfgang Huber, President of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany, bishop of the Evangelical Church of Berlin, Brandenburg, and Silesian Upper Lusatia

10.45Discussion on the stage

A Visible Unity of Christians – What Will It Look Like?

• Cardinal Walter Kasper, Bishop Hilarion, Bishop Wolfgang Huber

Moderated by Tomasz Królak (KAI – Catholic Information Agency)

Questions from the Audience

11.30 Break

12.00Prayer

TentMasters of Dialogue – witnesses

• Fr. Daniel Ange, founder of “Jeunesse Lumière”, an international Catholic school of prayer and evangelization, *Anne Cathy Graber, pastor of the Mennonite Church, member of the “Chemin Neuf” Community
• Rev. Nicolae Tanase, founder of the PRO VITA association

12.00 We Forgive and Ask for Forgiveness – Dialogue Between Poles and Germans 40 years after the Eastern memorandum of the EKD and the letter of Polish Catholic bishops to the German Episcopate***

college

• Władysław Bartoszewski, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland
• Bishop Wolfgang Huber, President of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany, Helmut Kohl, former Chancellor of Germany
• Tadeusz Mazowiecki, former Prime Minister of Poland
• Hans Joachim Meyer, President of ZdK(Central Committee of German Catholics)
• Archbishop Józef Michalik, President of the Conference of Polish Bishops

Moderated by Stephan Raabe, Director of Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Poland

14.00 Lunch

15.00-17.30 Dialogue in Everyday Life – meetings in work groups

all the meetings will be preceded by discussions on the same subjects held as part of the Gniezno Academy of Dialogue in the schools of Gniezno; during the Convention young people will present the fruit of their debates

• Dialogue in marriage and the family

or “How to sustain love at home through tick and thin?” WORKSHOP

Moderator: Jerzy Grzybowski, “Encounters of Married Couples”

Experts:

Deaconess Aleksandra Błahut-Kowalczyk, Evangelical theologian

Ryszard Montusiewicz, correspondent of KAI in Tel Aviv, member of the Neocatechumenal Way

Fr. Bronisław Rosik SAC, Catholic Anti-Drug Association KARAN

Elżbieta and Witold Kowalczyk „Home Church”

• Dialogue between Poles and Immigrants or “The Outlaws” in the Polish school WORKSHOP, TRANSLATION

Moderator: Krzysztof Stanowski, Education for Democracy Foundation, Warsaw

Participants:

Malika Abdulwachabowa, Chechen activist

Ton Van Anh, editor of the Vietnamese Cau Vong magazine issued in Poland

Norbert Frejek SJ, Angelus Silesius Meeting Centre, Wrocław

Simon Mol, Association of Refugees of the Republic of Poland

• Dialogue within the Roman Catholic Churchor “Can we talk to one another?” PANEL

Moderator: Anna Maruszeczko, Radio „Józef”

Participants:

Ewa Polak-Pałkiewicz, Niedziela

Jarosław Gowin, ZNAK

Grzegorz Górny, Fronda

Paweł Milcarek, Chritianitas

Fr. Adam Boniecki, Tygodnik Powszechny

• Dialogue between believers and non-believers

or “What do people who do not believe in anything believe in?”

PANEL, TRANSLATION

Moderator: Anna Karoń-Ostrowska, WIĘŹ

Participants:

Rev. Tomas Halik, Christian Academy in Prague

Prof. Janusz T. Maciuszko, Christian Academy of Theology

Sławomir Sierakowski, Institute of Sociology, Warsaw University, Krytyka Polityczna

• Polish ecumenical dialogues

or “Is the Polish ecumenical movement at a standstill?” PANEL

Moderator: Marek Górski, Warsaw “Pax Christi” Association

Participants:

Danuta Baszkowska, The Peace and Reconciliation Society “EFFATHA”

Pastor Wiera Jelinek, Evangelical-Reformed Church

Fr. Józef Budniak, Department of Ecumenical Theology of the Silesian University

Rev. Andrzej Gontarek, parish priest of the polish-catholic parish in Lublin

Fr. Włodzimierz Misijuk, Eastern Orthodox priest, former Secretary General of the World Federation of Organisations of Orthodox Youth Syndesmos

Grzegorz Polak, essayist, Edipresse

Fr. Henryk Seweryniak, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University

• Dialogue of “ecclesiastical” and “secular” volunteers or “Volunteers of the love of the neighbour – step forward!” WORKSHOP

Moderator: Piotr Czekierda, Angelus Silesius House of Meetings

Participants:

Magdalena Lenart, Catholic Association of Youth from Lublin

Ewa Wunsz, coordinator for voluntary work of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession of the Republic of Poland

Marek Masalski, Director of the Eleos Eastern Orthodox Metropolitan Centre of Charity

Jakub Wygnański, Klon/Jawor Association, Forum of Nongovernmental Initiatives

Anna Sieprawska

• Dialogue in the workplace

or “Do we need further work on work?” PANEL

Moderator: Michał Drozdek, Ignacy Paderewski Christian and Democratic Institute

Experts:

Maria Ochman, Chairwoman of the Health Service Section of the “Solidarity” Trade Union

Prof. Leszek Balcerowicz, President of National Bank of Poland

Prof. Juliusz Gardawski, Warsaw School of Economics (SGH)

Piotr Kapela, Chemin Neuf

Roman Kluska, entrepreneur

Krzysztof Mądel SJ, theologian, expert of the Mirosław Dzielski Centre

• Dialogue in a local community

or “Between the mayor, the pastor and the citizen” WORKSHOP

Moderator: Przemysław Fenrych, Foundation of the Local Democracy Developement

Participants, expercts:

Olga Rygorowicz, head of the Hajnówka commune

Rafał Dutkiewicz, Mayor of Wrocław

Fr. Sławomir Kokorzycki, parish priest in Korytów

Adam Pastucha, head of the commune council, Dębowiec n. Skoczów

Przemysław Radwan, School of Leaders

• Dialogue in a parish

or “Can the clergy and the laity trust each other?” WORKSHOP

Moderator: Marek Kosacz OP

Experts, Participants:

Prof. Elżbieta Firlit, sociologist of religion, Warsaw School of Economics (SGH)

Rev. Grzegorz Dróżdż, parish priest in Cegłów, The Old-Catholic Mariavite Church

Rev. Andrzej Godlewski, Roman Catholic Parish Priest of the Year 2004

Jan Grzegorczyk, W drodze

Rev. Jan Kojło, parish priest and director of Radio Orthodoxia in Białystok

Dr Maciej Lis, diocesan curator of the Wrocław Diocese of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession of the Republic of Poland

• Dialogue between the poor and the richor “Does poverty need to be hereditary?” PANEL

Moderator: Zdzisław Bielecki

Participants, experts:

Sr. Małgorzata Chmielewska, “Chleb Życia” Community

Wanda Falk, General Director of the Deacony of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession

Stefan Wilkanowicz, “Znak” Foundation of Christian Culture

Zbigniew Sroczyński, President of the “Hellena” Company

• Dialogue between “blockers” and “the doomed for success” or “Are the young a generation ‘nothing?” PANEL

Moderator: Szymon Hołownia, Ozon weekly

Experts, Participants:

Fr. Daniel Ange, founder of the Jeunesse Lumière international Catholic school of prayer and evangelisation

Fr. Leszek Czyż, Centre for Mission and Evangelisation the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession

Fr. Krzysztof Pawlina, Rector of the Seminary in Warsaw

Aleksander Zioło, Workshops of Sociological Analyses, Institute of Sociology, Warsaw University

Hip-hop musicians

17.45 Prayer – dialogue with the loving Father

• Fr. Tomáš Halík, Prague

18.30Dinner

20.00 Meeting in the Valley of Reconciliation

opening of the Joint Prayer of Jews, Christians, and Muslims

• Address by Prof. Władysław Bartoszewski
• short theatrical performance (Aleksander Fredro Theatre in Gniezno, directed by Tomasz Szymański)
• Procession with lit Gniezno lamps of dialogue from the Valley of Reconciliation to the city’s market square (by different routes)

20.30in the Gniezno market square:

PRAYER OF JEWS, CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS IN THE INTENTION OF EUROPE

(TV and radio live coverage)

at the end the participants get branches of the olive trees from Jerusalem

Sunday, 18 September

8.00 Holy Mass in the Gniezno Cathedral

9.30song and biblical meditation (led by Symcha Keller, President of the Jewish

Community in Łódź)

9.45Interreligious debate

presided over by Fr. Dietger Demuth CSsR, Executive Director of the Aktion Renovabis

Jews in Europe: Guests or Co-Hosts?

• Rabbi Jack Bemporad, Director of the Center for Interreligious Understanding, professor at Angelicum University in Rome

10.05Christian Roots of Europe and Today’s Religious Pluralism

• Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald, President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue

10.25Islam in Europe or a European Islam?

• Mustafa Cerič, Great Mufti of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Reis ul-Ulema

10.45Joint discussion on the stage

Christianity-Judaism-Islam in Europe: a Struggle or a Common Call?

• Rabbi Jack Bemporad, Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald, Great Mufti Mustafa Cerič

Moderated by Krzysztof Renik (Polish Radio)

11.15Break

11.45 Prayer

Debate of sociologists and theologians about the future of religion

A Post-Christian Continent or a New Springtime of the Church? What is the Future of Religion in Europe?

• José Casanova, professor of sociology, New York,
• Krzysztof Dorosz, essayist, former editor-in-chief of the Evangelical-Reformed Jednota monthly, Warsaw
• Tomáš Halík, professor of sociology and philosophy, Prague
• Paul M. Zulehner, professor of pastoral theology, Vienna
• Ivan Želev, professor of theology, Sophia

Moderated by Zbigniew Nosowski (WIĘŹ)

13.00Break

13.20Prayer

• Prof. Jerzy Kłoczowski, Institute of Central-Eastern Europe

Fathers of European Unity – since St. Benedict to John Paul II

Moderated by Piotr M. Cywiński, President of the Club of Catholic Intelligentsia in Warsaw, President of the Council of St. Adalbert’s Forum

13.45Debate of politicians about the future of Europe

Central Europe in the United Europe

• Jan Czarnogursky, former Prime Minister of Slovakia
• Helmut Kohl, former Chancellor of Germany
• Viktor Orbán, former Prime Minister of Hungary
• Tadeusz Mazowiecki, former Prime Minister of Poland
• Hans-Gert Poettering, Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament
• Lech Wałęsa, former President of Poland

Moderated by Dorota Gawryluk (TVP)

15.00 Adoption of the Convention’s Message to Europeans

15.05 Ecumenical prayer concluding the Gniezno Convention