INVITATION

We would like to invite you for the premiere of the Film about Basia
which will take place
on 18th of October 2009, 12.00
in Muranow Cinema in Warsaw (Poland)

If anyone of you would like to meet many Polish VIPs
who will attend this event,
do not hesitate to visit Warsaw that day.

Now we plan next activities. First of all we want to prepare the Polish premiere which will take place in the middle of October. Afterwards (or earlier) we will start working on English translation. We expect to finish it in October as we have great support from English speaking people.
We will provide you with details soon.

During last days the Fundation has collected 4 bank transfer for the sum of 1.350 zł. All the
donations came from Poland as the international promotion of the project
hasn’t started yet.
The whole sum of donations is 10.474 zł.
Great thanks for all the benefactors !!!

State of the project

The shooting comes to the end. Last message from Maciek and Leszek is:

We interview several people who were specially connected with
Basia. Last weekend we visited Sister Monika – a Dominican nun. Basia i
Michal went to the her after they had discovered the disease. She loved them
at the first sight. They became as a family. Sister Monika lives in a monastery and never goes out but in some way she accompanied Basia i Michał.
They called each other, sent sms, wrote letters. Sister Monica read us the
letters she received from Basia. We all were deeply moved.

The interview with Sister Monika showed us that we are shooting the story not only about a disease, pain, struggle for an unb orn child, but most of all it is a story about Life

And here are some photos from shooting ind Dominican monastery where Siter Monica lives.

However, we need some money to finalize the project.
The Project budget consists of two items:
- remuneration of the authors: 49,470 zł. (ca. 14,150 EUR)
- acquisition of the soundtrack: from 1,500 zł. (ca. 430 EUR) (for the music already composed) to 5,000 zł. (ca. 1,430 EUR) (for the music composed only for the film). After the compser is paid the soundtrack will be distributed free of charge.

If you would like to became one of donors, please visit this page.

And you can track the project’s progress here, on this blog.

“Man is called to a fullness of life which far exceeds the dimensions of his earthly existence, because it consists in sharing the very life of God.”
Evangelium Vitae, John Paul II

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The Basia’s Rosary – fater W. Prus OP

Basia was 31 years old. She passed away on 29thJune 2007 in the morning, on the Feast of St. Peter and Paul the Apostles. A day before, I visited her together with her husband. She was then unconscious. For a month, with a short break, a respirator has been needed to help her breathe. She couldn’t talk. Michał showed me a sheet of paper, which they used to communicate with each other. The short sentences were a sign of her struggle with suffering, effort to write straight when letters kept slipping down. Sometimes she lacked the strength to write, so Michał invented a keyboard for her and drew it on a sheet of paper, so that she could tell what she needed striking letters.

They have been married since 2000. We met in 2002 during the Advent Retreat for graduates of Soli Deo association from Warsaw School of Economic. Later, we met at the next retreat and conversations. One of the painful threads of their story was the lack of offspring. They were ready to decide on adoption. In autumn 2004, they enrolled for a nine-month adoption course. Before the beginning of the course, however, they went to a pilgrimage to Rome. What was the joy of her friends when they learned in December that Basia was in a delicate condition!

And later, something even more unexpected came. In my notes I wrote: “21stJanuary 2005 – Basia and Michał Paradowscy are discovering that Basia has a cancer. Today we are meeting and praying. Extreme unction and prayer to the Holy Mother of Gidle.” And right after a second record, with the repetition of this dramatic news, as if I could not believe what happened: “23rdJanuary 2005 at 4 p.m. – a mass for married couples expecting children. Blessing of couples at the end of the mass. Meeting with Soli Deo graduates. Basia and Michał Paradowscy – it turned out that she had a cancer. Now, when she is pregnant… A lot of prayer.”

The doctor who brought the news about the cancer suggested abortion in order to ensure treatment efficiency. They have been confronted with an incredible choice. The struggle began. They were surrounded by love and prayer of friends. The praying circle was still growing. They found a doctor who accepted to treat Basia in her pregnancy. The chemotherapy started. Mateusz was born healthy. On the eve of Basia’s death, he was two.

Soon before Basia’s death, going by train from Warsaw to Poznań, I called her to ask how she was feeling. She said about their joint fight against next recurrences, she mentioned cheerful anecdotes about Mateusz. I asked if she would be able to write something about her struggle. On 11thMay, I received this email: “Recently when we talked, Father said about writing something to the magazine W drodze. I wrote something in the form of Sorrowful Mysteries combined with our daily life. I don’t know whether it will be good. Father will judge and decide. It is personal, but I cannot write impersonally. I am sending warm regards from the front of further fight. Basia.”

Right after her birthday, on the 22ndof May, Basia landed in hospital with a heavy respiratory insufficiency. This was the next battlefront. She was surrounded with tender care of her closest relatives, doctors, and medical staff. For a moment she could even breathe on her own, and then Michał visited her with Mateusz, who was delighted to sit with his mum on the bed. Soon after, Michał informed me that Basia’s organism didn’t react to any medicines anymore.

On Służew cemetary, by Saint Catherine’s church, we were actually reciting the rosary incessantly: waiting for everyone to arrive, setting off with the funeral procession to the grave, covering Basia’s coffin. Regular and full of power Hail Mary could be heard under the cloudy sky of Warsaw. It was her prayer – Basia’s rosary.

The Polish version of the article in the “W drodze” Magazine.