The Polish American Miracle

Please teach your loved ones how a Pole and an American saved their lives: Take them to see “The Divine Plan.”

Hollywood is giving a film about St. John Paul the Great and Ronald Reagan one chance: a one night only November 6 for a massive nationwide showing.

The story: How Reagan saw what John Paul was doing in Poland to get the people of Poland — “the linchpin” — to start a chain reaction that would forever change the world.

The Fathom Event is the chance to see whether the public wants to see the true story of John Paul and Ronald Reagan nearly dying (from shootings just six weeks apart in spring 1981). The Divine Plan: Like Poland, the Christ of Nations, the president and pope nearly died (both losing more than half their blood). But both rose again from near death to win the Cold War without firing a shot.

A billion slaves, including the people of Poland and all of Eastern Europe, were freed without firing a shot. Name a bigger modern miracle than this, the story were need to tell our children.

The documentary tells the story of the alliance and friendship of Reagan and John Paul, two former actors who won great power then survived 1981 assassination attempts just 44 days apart. Both believed God saved them for a reason and together, they saved most of the world from communism, an evil way of life that killed 100 million victims.

A companion book, “The Divine Plan: Reagan, John Paul II and the Dramatic End of the Cold War,’’ debuted in June.

The film’s groundbreaking research includes new details on the Soviet plot to assassinate John Paul, who they recognized as a great threat to their Soviet empire.

“I didn’t want to use tired footage because I wanted to bring history alive, not just to people who have some familiarity with the subject, but also to younger audiences,” director Robert Orlando said in an interview with The Daily Signal. “Reagan always believed in the Divine Plan. He was a man of Christian faith and the assassination attempt galvanized him’’

Bishop Robert Barron says in the film that the pope saw his own assassination attempt “according to the template of the cross and resurrection of Jesus. Did it give him a heightened sense of his mission to struggle against what he saw quite correctly as the supreme evil in the world at this time? I’d say yes, absolutely. And that brings him close to Ronald Reagan.”

Kengor, the author of 14 books, mainly on Reagan, faith, Catholicism and the presidency, is a professor of political science at Grove City College and executive director of the Center for Vision and Values and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

The film includes interviews with numerous prominent leaders of the Church, politics, historians and Polonia including Bishop Robert Barron, New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan. and JPII biographer George Weigel.

The Feast of St. John Paul the Great is celebrated throughout the world each October 22, the anniversary of his formal installation as pope.

President of Polish Episcopate: Proclaim John Paul “Doctor of the Church and Patron of Europe’’

Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki, speaking on behalf of the Polish Bishops’ Conference, marked the 2019 Feast of John Paul by formally asking Pope Francis to declare John Paul a Doctor the Church and Patron of Europe.

“The pontificate of the Pope from Poland was filled with groundbreaking decisions and significant events that changed the face of the papacy and influenced the course of European and world history,’’ Gądecki said.

Cardinal Stanisław Dziwisz added: “ “the Renaissance, for which we are all waiting, as usual can only be achieved as a new reconsideration and adoption of the classical vision of the man and of the world. There is no doubt that in such a context, the legacy of St. Pope John Paul II the Great has a remarkable culture-making value.’’

The world will celebrate the 100th anniversary of John Paul’s birth in 2020.

Prayer to St. John Paul the Great

Oh, St. John Paul, from the window of heaven, grant us your blessing! Bless the church that you loved and served and guided, courageously leading it along the paths of the world in order to bring Jesus to everyone and everyone to Jesus.

Bless the young, who were your great passion. Help them dream again, help them look up high again to find the light that illuminates the paths of life here on earth.

May you bless families, bless each family! You warned of Satan’s assault against this precious and indispensable divine spark that God lit on earth. St. John Paul, with your prayer, may you protect the family and every life that blossoms from the family.

Pray for the whole world, which is still marked by tensions, wars and injustice. You tackled war by invoking dialogue and planting the seeds of love: pray for us so that we may be tireless sowers of peace.

Oh St. John Paul, from heaven’s window, where we see you next to Mary, send God’s blessing down upon us all. Amen.

Order tickets now to see “The Divine Plan” in theaters November 6.