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The event will take place in Łomża, Poland.
The official language is Polish.
It is a continuation of a long series of events.
First two such meetings were organized in Father Zązel’s parish Kamesznica, then in Częstochowa, Zamość, Kraków, Białystok, Koszęcin, Ludźmierz, Warszawa, Olsztyn, Wrocław, Bydgoszcz and Tarnów. In 1999, Father Zązel went with alcohol-free couples to Rome, where they were blessed by Pope John Paul II.
The meetings are always multi-layered events. Everybody enjoys the all-night-long dancing. But there are also conferences, discussions, lectures, meetings with local state authorities and bishops. The couples swear love as on the day of their wedding and are blessed by the bishops. Every day they attend with their children Holy Masses celebrated specially for them. Even couples from abroad (Austria, Australia, France, Germany) feel attracted.
The meetings pursue the goals:
FORMATION and INFORMATION
Conferences, workshops, symposia, panel discussions are organized. Participants share their experience in organizing alcohol-free entertainment, dancings etc.; help in organizing alcohol-free wedding reception is offered to those who are about to marry.
PROMOTION OF CULTURE
Meetings with scientists and artists take place
RECREATION and LEARNING THE BEAUTY OF THE HOMELAND
Organizers offer excursions, guided tours through historical towns, sighseeing tours, sport competitions etc.
RECOLLECTIONS and EVANGELIZATION
Daily Holy Mass with preaches by Church shepherds (bishops, archbishops, cardinals) is attended. The role of matrimonial love, family and the moral principles in the life of society is specially underscored.
FINE ENTERTAINMENT
In the last night of the meeting, a wedding reception is celebrated. Parents demonstrate their children by example that they are really capable to dance und cheer without alcohol, so as hundreds of other people from whole Poland coming together that night.
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