Poland’s most influential Redemptorist lambasted everyone who organises an apparently innocent pastime in Polish cities: throwing coloured powders at one another. It is an urban adaptation of one of the most colourful festivals in India. It refers to the Indian festival of joy and spring (Holi), which in southern India is associated with Kamadeva, the Hindu god of love, and in the north with the Supreme Being Krishna.
In his broadcast, Father Rydzyk stressed that during Holi, physical love is elevated to the status of religion, while Hindus sing obscene songs.
“Everyone takes part in it and forgets the First Commandment: ‘You shall have no other gods before me,’” said the priest from the Toruń-based station. “The King of Poland, Jesus Christ, looks at us, at Poles, and sees us rolling around in these colours. Whether at Woodstock in Kostrzyn or at the Ceramics Festival in Bolesławiec, it is happening everywhere,” the Redemptorist lamented.
Father Rydzyk appealed to people associated with the Radio Maryja Families to admonish the organisers of the Festival of Colours, boycott the pagan rituals and pray for those who would take part in them.
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