A call to avoid “hasty decisions and grumbling in our communities” in order to “leave behind all past wrongs and wounds” and to resist “the temptation to withdraw or to domineer” was made by Pope Francis in the last part of his homily in Czestochowa. Mary, “as the Mother of a family, wants to keep us together”, Pope Francis said. “Through unity, the journey of your people has surmounted any number of harsh experiences. May the Mother, who stood steadfast at the foot of the Cross and persevered in prayer with the disciples in awaiting the Holy Spirit, obtain for you the desire to leave behind all past wrongs and wounds, and to build fellowship with all, without ever yielding to the temptation to withdraw or to domineer”. “At Cana, Our Lady showed great realism”, Pope Francis continued. “She is a Mother who takes people’s problems to heart and acts. She recognizes moments of difficulty and handles them discreetly, efficiently and decisively. She is neither imperious nor intrusive, but a Mother and a handmaid”. “Let us ask for the grace to imitate her sensitivity and her creativity in serving those in need, and to know how beautiful it is to spend our lives in the service of others, without favourites or distinctions” to bring “peace amid the profusion of sin and the turmoil of history”. “The transition from before to after Christ means little if it remains a date in the annals of history”, the Pope said, referring to the 1050th Anniversary of Poland’s Baptism. “May each one of us be able to make an interior passage, a Passover of the heart, towards the divine style incarnated by Mary; may we do everything in littleness, and accompany others at close hand, with a simple and open heart”.