The annual Christmas wafer-sharing gathering, organized for the eighth time, brought together several hundred people with disabilities, along with their carers, from across Bolesławiec County on Saturday, January 26, in the sports hall at the Complex of General Education Schools in Bolesławiec.
The main point of Saturday’s event was a solemn Mass presided over by Reverend Prelate Marek Mendyk, the delegate of the Bishop of Legnica, and concelebrated by priests from Bolesławiec’s two deaneries.
During the Mass, people with disabilities presented votive offerings to the prelate. After the service, as tradition dictates, the participants shared the Christmas wafers and exchanged Christmas and New Year’s wishes.
The organizers provided refreshments for all the event’s participants. The people with disabilities, meanwhile, prepared a Christmas artistic program. Performances by the Bolesławiec Camerton choir and the Municipal Brass Band from Bolesławiec added distinction to the gathering.
Artworks created by residents of Bolesławiec’s therapeutic centers were arranged around the places prepared for the participants of the Christmas wafer-sharing gathering.
The event, organized by the County Office in cooperation with the municipalities of the county, was also attended by County Governor Cezary Przybylski, Deputy County Governor Stanisław Chwojnicki, Nowogrodziec Mayor Robert Relich, Bolesławiec Deputy Mayor Maciej Małkowski, and the heads of the municipalities.
(report by Tomasz Matyjewicz/GA)