Stone to Flesh

04/03/2026

https://stonetoflesh.org/blog/2026/4/3/sorrowandlament

I did not expect it to end like this. Not because I did not know suffering. Simeon made sure of that early enough: a sword, he said, will pierce your soul. He did not say when or how many times. Women know this kind of prophecy. It rarely arrives as poetry, it mostly unfolds unexpectedly. I kept the

11/27/2025

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Prepare for Jesus’ coming.

10/23/2025

Slow Fire - Slow Discipleship It’s a renewal for those who tried revivals and needed restoration instead of stimulation. Embers not flames. A silent resurrection, where the soul breathes again and grace seeps in quietly like morning light through pine branches. Four day retreat in the woods of Mo

08/24/2025

‘Our’ Sr. Faustina’s first vows!

08/16/2025

Our Griselda becomes Sr. Faustina!!!!😍😇

08/14/2025

The man for whom St. Maximilian Kolbe died, Franciszek Gajowniczek. Did not achieve anything spectacular, except becoming a witness of Kolbe’s magnanimity. In today’s world Kolbe’s sacrifice can be seen as waste of his own talents, influence, gifts, networks, achievements. That’s because without heavenly spectrum, our vision is bleak and lacks courage.

When our lives end with focusing on self-awareness, authenticity and developing our natural talents and supernatural gifts instead of virtuous character, we make the reality self-centered, self-serving, and self-important. We win for ourselves.

When we come to the life where the spectacular self-giving becomes a way we make our decisions, we carry our heart and we live humbly in the presence of self-giving God, the fortitude becomes more than fearlessness. “Vanity loves the honor and prestige that comes from great things, whereas magnanimity loves the work and effort that has to be done to achieve them.” - Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange

In the world which promotes talents, virtues are shuffled away for virtues speak louder in silence than talents with all shiny lights, amped mics and effective campaigns. The world can not handle virtuous lifestyle and humble ends. It fights for self-worth without realizing that only love can bring peace.

05/11/2025

First Moms’ Group today. Simple, honest, beautiful.
We prayed. We sang. We shared our hearts.
We ate good, real, organic food.
Life-giving. Rooted. A beginning.

05/09/2025

We need to decrease so Jesus can increase. We need more fire on the inside so when its flames are shown they will not burn us dead. We need more conviction to cease what’s worthless and more zeal for what will remain as priceless.

Pope Leo XIV lived what he preached. He is the least American among US cardinals, and many Christians here, in a sense that most of his life he spent as a missionary outside of his country (to which I can relate). The missionary years of serving in the poorest regions of Peru shaped him. And it shows.

There is a chance that he will show us how to add the American entrepreneur spirit to the Holy Spirit’s power of meakness. And to carry it from our endless leadership meetings, healing meetings, prayer meetings and all other meetings into places and people where it is mostly needed.

There is a chance he will lead us to move from self importance to Jesus-importance, from becoming best versions of ourselves to the most committed disciples of Christ, from iBelievers to to true followers who lose their lives for the sake of the Gospel.
Not influencers, but intercessors.
Not builders of platforms, but those laying down our lives.
Not chasing relevance, but abiding in reverence.
He may just be the kind of quiet fire we need. Not to dazzle, but to purify. To bring back sobriety of thoughts, calmness of hearts, stillness of spirit in the midst of ongoing chaos.

We have a chance to rise above and to see from there.

It’s good to be invisible to show His glory. Thats the kind of US Christianity that is needed.

In today’s homily in the Sistine Chapel where he was chosen to become next pope he talks about becoming invisible so Christ can be seen:

“He recalled that "Saint Ignatius, who was led in chains to this city, the place of his impending sacrifice, wrote to the Christians there: 'Then I will truly be a disciple of Jesus Christ, when the world no longer sees my body.'”
Moving aside to make space for Christ
"Ignatius," Pope Leo explained, "was speaking about being devoured by wild beasts in the arena – and so it happened," he clarified, adding, "But, his words apply more generally to an indispensable commitment for all those in the Church who exercise a ministry of authority."
Specifically, he underscored, that commitment "is to move aside so that Christ may remain, to make oneself small so that he may be known and glorified, to spend oneself to the utmost so that all may have the opportunity to know and love Him.”

05/09/2025

I am proud to be Polish, and now I am proud to be an American (you thought you will never hear this... well, guess what?!)

This could be the day a new fire begins. A day when hearts in the U.S. are stirred again to live and preach the Gospel, not only with words, but with lives that radiate mercy, healing, courage, and truth.

We don’t need louder voices. We need deeper roots. We need the kind of witness that flows first from prayer and hidden sacrifice, and a love so real it can’t help but act. Let this love stir you to the point that you will not be able to contain it within and for yourself.

May Leo XIV show us a way. Not of spectacle, but of substance. Not of strategies, but of surrender. A humble, prayerful path of missionary discipleship that begins on our knees and moves through the streets, the wounds, the ordinary places, where Christ is waiting.

P.S. Now you USA Americans know how it feels. And I have the feels for the second time!

~Iwona