25 years of my priesthood

25 years of priesthood

Stanislaw Barszczak —World and the man buried alive (memories) —

I have not started it, not as a politician to read poetry, but as a child. I heard interesting stories from my mother in my childhood. By the way my mother told that during the Nazi period she has been in Maćkowice on the courtyard near Przemyśl, this very difficult time has been filled with her stories. She had had really fabulous memory. I have already heard as a child her stories and had I read so many. I would like to tell that those stories I need for my mental health in a life. In a world that is rapidly and only visually oriented, the hear is neglecting . In the Bible it says: “In the beginning was the Word” – no writing. Also had God spoke: “Let there be light”, he had not written that. Ulah Hahn says about the experience of reading of a poem aloud, each person should do such thing, and he needs not to be close to an audience. You give a poem in your mouth in order to find a word body in all its sensuality. This is a dimension like music that really opens up on the meaning. I also write prose today and I would probably write another prose, if I had not written poetry before … The friend says to me, you are still working too much. In a few days I will 50 years old and happy to admit that I am considering my age, I can still move pretty well. But growing old is still for me a tangible process. That is a painful process: You notice, however, that many things you can no longer so and what you want. Yes, it is difficult … I’ll tell a nice story about it. The other day someone said to me: “Tell me, you’re not the Priest of Częstochowa. You have to wait…” That was good … I think it’s enormously important, instead of having his own life when I’m working on the computer. I’m really absent at a time. My friends know this and the director of our house knows one too. I’m not just there and then I take from a phone. I put the phone that is silent at this time. We both the director and me are speaking to ourselves and have no problem  … When we got to know for a first time, I was 19 years old. Of course I had not waited until the age of 50 on, until finally the right director arrives. On the contrary, if I was serious about other priests, then I was beginning self-centered enough to say: “This far and no further” I think that it went on between us because we’re both ready-made personalities. In women, it’s often the case that they say, “Oh, now I’ve finally found the man of her life, now I can only leave once all fours stretch of me and spoil me.” For me nothing has really changed by this relationship: It is something added, but what was there, remains. That was never a problem … As love readers know I have already written a few books … If you own work seriously, then you take the work of the other serious also … My friend has read my texts before, ,I have given him this manuscript at all… I couldn’t understand it never before, that in 1986 year I joined with faithful people as a successful priest and as vicar in the parish in one person … I think it was a tremendous grace of God and the care of the mother of Jesus in my life … I was interested in politics in my life, first in an elementary school when I had preparing for a “Civic lesson”. The policy is a rational field … be rational. See this in the language of music but also by the other possibilities, which then in turn open up other forms of emotion and you can be sometimes even a little progressive… I think this fits very well together in one person, my aunt… And we can also discuss about it very often good. Politics is but also an emotional field, and not just a rational field … “The Lord Wałęsa I like optical better. So he must be too…” He must be emotional, he has a feel for the concerns and the soul of the patient or care to have the people and society.  He has to take care not only and not primarily emotional, but because of the insight into the needs of the citizens… The politicians have a responsibility as the doctor, which they have as the climber does. Somebody says there are the climbers and the doctors one, and they take care like a mountain guide. This is a form of responsibility: he wants to achieve something, he wants the summit to make but a climb through a channel which is more dangerous than the other way would be irresponsible. Priesthood as the policy is therefore a job with many responsibilities and a profession that depends on it, that you really tried to understand things and then decide to use the mind properly, in the end it must be to maintain a rational process. When I met my friend, the director now and then when we came together really, I knew that: He is …! What you want? I’m not a fan of Facebook or Twitter. No, no, that must have been in your flesh and blood. What is different now? Well, the story on my own it has changed indeed in these 25 years of my priesthood and changed again. … Yes, yes, but I would now say again that there is a difference between youth and age. If this had happened to me I am 50 years old, it would have been very different than it was then, as it has happened to me 25 years earlier. With 25 years ago it was such a pressure to the life, the desire to live so that you were on the true way on his life with the bears, but it just can encapsulate it better if you still have so much future ahead. I think heavy blows can better handle a young age than in older age. Now, my director is simply a person who interested me a lot as a second Christ. Yes. But the human being is not only his story but he is already well what he is right now, what it represents at the moment. That was never really difficult, but it was basically more exciting to see these two different environments … I think it is not a day that I do not read at least a few pages or at least a few sentences nutritious literature, as I like to call it: a poem or a few pages from a really good prose book. Yes, I need this now I need perhaps not as a strong, but it is just like a habit, like brushing your teeth. Literature is really a food for me … The literature has so shaped my life … That is the spirit that builds the body! In Schiller writings you may read: “In your breast face are the destinies of the stars of yours!” I need space, and I have just in our relationship. It is this dialectic between security and freedom. If you reached this in a relationship, then that’s wonderful, because it’s better not be… I have always said that if my church is right to 51 percent, then I’m happy. No one can lay claim to know everything. No church always knows everything better .. And so a fruitful discussion is still a great source of joy … Writing is my expression of life. Now, if I really could not write, then I would waste away, then I would not really alive …I also have a very strong tendency to painting, even more than the music. But the language and writing are for me even more important now.  As I said, this is for me a way of clarification, and the liability. Also it creates in turn a bond between us.

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