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00:02 After this time of waiting for Advent, comes the joyful time of the birth of Christ.

00:09 I think that the biggest initiator of this great joy,

00:13 which we can see Christ in the manger, is St. Francis.

00:19 We also experienced this Advent period as the Francis Building Square.

00:25 It was called the time when children built shops and learned this Francis craft.

00:34 But the shop has an 800-year tradition and St. Francis wanted to bring this joy closer

00:42 so that we could visually see Jesus in the manger,

00:46 see visually what could have happened 2000 years ago.

00:52 Also, in Polish tradition, these shops have a special place.

00:59 In the houses where they are built, in the traditions of Silesia, Kashubia,

01:06 and maybe others, I know them,

01:09 these shops are built by grandfathers, shown to children,

01:15 and the Christmas Eve is experienced at such a shop in Bethlehem.

01:21 We see this joy. Christ was born.

01:24 Many lights, many joys, many moving elements.

01:31 However, I think that the shop also has this dimension of building,

01:40 that is, we think about it throughout Advent.

01:45 We think about putting this shop and this is how St. Francis taught us.

01:52 That is why we also invite you to our churches, Polish churches,

01:57 where this tradition is very, very alive, where such shops are built.

02:04 In the tradition of the monastery hill, here, our sanctuary,

02:11 I think that from the Bernardines, although we do not know such images from the 17th and 18th centuries,

02:20 but when we came here 100 years ago,

02:23 the shops were built as missionaries of the Holy Family.

02:27 We support this tradition of the Holy Family,

02:32 to show this Holy Family.

02:36 And so, in the hill, these shops had different dimensions,

02:41 there were those that were alive during the years 2000 and a little further,

02:50 there were those that were built on the Place of Annunciation.

02:55 And today, modestly, we have returned after the epidemic to our smaller basilica,

03:01 where we present to children, parents, but also to everyone who is experiencing this period of Christmas,

03:08 just such a shop that you can think about, you can think about,

03:12 and listen to and sing carols,

03:15 because they are inseparably related to the period of Christmas.

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