DAYS OF THE PEOPLE OF GOODWILL 2019
Days of the People of Goodwill at Velehrad are surely the biggest celebrations connected with a national holiday of the Czech Republic. They have been taking place for 16 years already, on the occasion of the Day of the Slavonic Missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius.
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CYRIL AND METHODIUS IN FILM
The five-part docudrama will map the lives and work of the Slavonic missionaries Cyril and Methodius, primarily in an educational format.
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SCHOOL OF CYRIL AND METHODIUS
On the occasion of the “Cyrillo-Methodian jubilee”, educational workshops for children and youth will emerge, the main aim of which will be to familiarize children with the Cyrillo-Methodian legacy in an amusing and practical way.
CHILDREN WALK THE WAY OF THE TWO BROTHERS
‘The Way of the Two Brothers’ is the title of an art competition for children 3 to 11 years of age. It is regularly announced within the July Days of the People of Goodwill at Velehrad. The aim of the project is to explain roots of our culture to children, impairing a positive model for life in the present.
VELEHRAD
It is an important spiritual center, a destination of frequent ecclesiastic pilgrimages, gatherings and Cyrillo-Methodian celebrations.
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Cyrillo-Methodian bike pilgrimage through the Czech Republic

Cyrillo-Methodian bike pilgrimage through the Czech Republic

2. 2. 2013

The bike pilgrimage that is to take place this year of the great anniversary of the 1150 years since the arrival of Saints Cyril and Methodius, wants to contribute to the celebrations and, at the same time, to pick up the threads of the preceding one, which led to Rome.

By means of the Cyrillo-Methodian bike pilgrimage we again want to give sport a meaning, in a form of the interconnection of sport, culture and the spiritual dimension. May these values be an example for these days when even sport is connected with a number of difficulties and problems.

To do sports with joy, irrespective of political opinions, sex or age, is ideally interconnected in the Christian organization Orel, which aims at that goal through their bike pilgrimages.

Every pilgrimage (not only a bike pilgrimage) has its start and its goal. However, it is the journey itself which is important as well. As a starting point we chose the heart of our country – the Cathedral of Saints Vitus, Wenceslas and Adalbert at the Prague Castle. The goal is Velehrad; the place where also the two saint Slavic brothers finished their journey. Other places within the individual stages, which we are going to go through or arrive at, were chosen so that they would lead through places connected with Czech saints or places of pilgrimage. Stará Boleslav (Saint Wenceslas), Jablonné v Podještědí (Saint Zdislava) or Králíky (Mountain of the Mother of God).

As mentioned above, in their preceding years, bike pilgrimages have already established a community of bikers throughout all generations that meet not only during bike pilgrimages. A number of friendships that had been established, turned into marriages. Thus, we will be happy to welcome new members among us, both those whose faith is strong, and those who are searching, groping or those who would like to spend a pilgrimage in a group, which is not seeking itself but the highest virtues – faith, charity and hope.

In the same style as during the preceding bike pilgrimages, also this year there will be an organization team, which will take care of your spiritual and bodily health, potable regime and transportation of your supplies.

On behalf of the whole organization team, the main organizer of the bike pilgrimage - Petr Gabriel is looking forward to meeting with you in Prague on 3rd August 2013.

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29. 6. 2013

1150th anniversary of Cyril and Methodius

Here are our roots.

(Blessed John Paul II, 22nd April 1990, Velehrad)

They wanted to become part of those nations and to share their destiny in everything. Here, in this place, at Velehrad, in Moravia, we can feel the historical legacy of the kingdom in a peculiar way – we can feel even those who became its keepers and guardians.

(Blessed John Paul II)
For us, people of the present age, their apostolate contains even the elocution of the ecumenical appeal, i.e. to build unity again, in a peaceful reconciliation, which later after their deaths was heavily damaged, and in the first place the unity between the East and the West.

(Blessed John Paul II)
Their work is also a very important contribution to the growth of the common Christian roots of Europe, which by their firmness and viability create one of the main contact points, which must be respected by every serious attempt at reunification of our continent in a new and topical way.

(Blessed John Paul II)
The story of both brothers, Cyril and Methodius, is a distinct example of unity.

Saints Cyril and Methodius contributed, to a great extent, to the building of Europe, not only regarding its Christian religious community but also concerning its civil and cultural unity.

(Blessed John Paul II)