Father Stanisław Majcher, a Jesuit from the Retreat House in Zakopane, serves as a chaplain at the penitentiary in Nowy Wiśnicz. As part of his ministry, he moderates formational meetings for prisoners. On April 20, another meeting took place, attended by several dozen inmates and a few volunteers from Krakow, Lodz, Rzeszow, Zywiec, Nowy Sacz, Lachowice, and Gdansk.

The main topic of the meeting was loneliness and isolation in everyday life. It's worth noting that prisoners do not experience loneliness in the classical sense, as they are surrounded by fellow inmates. However, the question was how to overcome the feeling of isolation that affects the inner self.

Father Stanisław Majcher began the meeting by talking about external and internal freedom, introducing the topic. Then, fragments from the Holy Scripture about loneliness were presented to the prisoners to explore the issues at the intersection of spirituality and psychology, distinguishing between loneliness and isolation. The next two presentations were testimonies from volunteers sharing how they cope with isolation at home and in their professional lives.

Referring to the scope of isolation in professional work, a volunteer mentioned his experience with Spiritual Exercises, where the silence of the retreat touched his inner self and consciousness. This led to a desire to talk to his coworker about their closed-off attitude. The result of the conversation was a spiritual and life awakening for the coworker, who emerged from that state as a changed person. The key to overcoming isolation is a relationship with God, and subsequently, building oneself on the path towards another person with God.

It was also pointed out that Saint Ignatius Loyola wrote in the Spiritual Exercises: "The more the soul is isolated and alone, the more it can approach its Creator and Lord and unite with Him."