For over a half century, every day, beginning on 2 November 1946, when I celebrated my first Mass in the Crypt of Saint Leonard in Wawel Cathedral in Krakow, my eyes have gazed in recollection upon the host and the chalice, where time and space in some way “merge” and the drama of Golgotha is re-presented in a living way, thus revealing its mysterious “contemporaneity”.
Plus dimidium saeculum, quotidie, inde ab illo die II mensis Novembris anno MCMXLVI, cum "primam" Missam in crypta sancti Leonardi cathedralis templi Wawel Cracoviae celebravimus, oculos Nostros in hostiam calicemque intendimus, in quibus tempus spatiumque quodammodo sese "contraxerunt" et Calvariae drama vividum iterum est expressum, cum suam arcanam "contemporalem" praesentiam manifestaret.vatican.va vatican.va