Getting There

By plane: Krakow's international Balice Airport has direct flights to London, Paris, Rome, Vienna, Austria, and other European cities.

By train: Krakow can be reached in under three hours from Warsaw, and also run direct to Austria, Germany, Hungary, Romania and Ukraine. The city has good east-west and north-south highway connections, and reliable bus and tram facilities.

Accommodations: Hotels range from $15 to $150, and you can eat well at restaurants for $25 or less. Half-day excursions include Poland's Jasna Gora national sanctuary, the Auschwitz concentration camp and famous Wieliczka salt mine.

Karl Geiger, “Via Crucis,” 1876, St. Johann der Evangelist

The Lord Has Need of It

‘The Lord has need of it’ — a small detail in the Passion narrative that reveals the boundless humility of our Savior and his longing for union with us.