Stanislaw Barszczak-Thoughts from the passage of time –
I thank you very much for your heart? I do not reject this prize for a life. We are gathered to celebrate the Eucharist not in the city center, but in our Ząbkowice church, which recently celebrated the centenary of its existence. We are here to celebrate this sacred place (the author of the recent modest monograph about this church drew my attention to the original style sanctuary, the Cross of Christ in the middle on the beginning of twenty century), while praying in this special intention of thanksgiving for the 25 years of my service in the priesthood. A wonderful expression of this prayer is to be the Eucharist. Let me mention here of Padre Pio, who spent three years of long life could not celebrate Mass. I did not once turn pushing up the local council’s altar (he was still changed three times), and the most I could glorify Christ in the sacred activities only and may be up in the company of another priest. Today, there had been a change on the liturgy, and with me is so many priests, the roles are reversed. Apparently I owe it a golden grace of Christ’s priesthood, your kindness, dear Parishioners of Ząbkowice, and my mother’s silver-faith, she rests in the local cemetery. Let me now be welcomed by some of my guests. Monsignor Gregory Slezak, my first Father Rector of the Minor Seminary in Czestochowa, Father Greg has a conscience so clean that no convenient. Lord gave “color white quite impractical, alien life without mistakes, not all the love, incomplete, because without dying; which of us will take him for the neck: hear, say, times have changed, now I am using the world you hide. I remember especially the fourth year of high school, I was class president, and I welcomed the image of Our Lady of the Black Madonna of Czestochowa in our school, during the pilgrimage to Mother of Mother of God on our Diocese. It’s all thanks to this man. Then, I want to welcome the Prior of Jasna Gora, the Father of the Reverend Roman Majewski with the lamp room, I suppose. Then, I would like to welcome Pastor Monsignor Richard Grzesik from Olsztyn, where he is currently staying, I too. He already was on top of Jacob’s ladder. The, I wish to welcome the Rev. Chancellor Monsignor Marian Mikolajczyk, who visited me fifteen years ago in mother’s house in this parish, in the streets of the ‘White Eagle Association 36th’. And now the most important guest in the person of our untiring missionary from Zambia. Already two years ago, I asked the Reverend Fr. Wenceslas Kuflewski to tell on my celebration of his journey of faith. We have lived this moment. Thanks be to God. Appeal to you, dear Christians! ‘Had ears, but not heard’. Listen only? I still would like to welcome the other guests, pastor of Saints Families, from ‘ Sacred forest’ near Czestochowa, a friend from seminary, Fr. Dariusz Nowak with his parents, he over the last years puts me easily. The reverend parish priest, guardian of this flock, Fr. Małota George, I want to thank for allowing me to perform that the holy Mass along with you. We welcome invited guests from abroad, and choristers, singers, organists; Ms. Bozena and Janusz for their songs and a lovely music (Kubik-Art Musik); ladies Teresa and Irena from travel agency HORIZON in Wroclaw, Mrs. Agnes of agency-Eco Tours, especially Father Peter, with his choir group, friends from Międzyrzecze Górne, Joseph, Helene, Emily, from the parish of Rząśnia, three Sisters from Olsztyn, all those who contributed to commemorate our celebration, and who still come. God bless you! At first, let’s conscience before the Lord our God. whether or not I was louder than you, Lord, whether or not I yesterday’s ever to come to you, if not running in the dark crying with my heart as the fifth stave, or not stealing your time, or not too tenderly lick a paws of a conscience of mine or did not distinguish between feelings, or the stars which are long gone persistently I raised, or not having a sleek log diary of my grievances, or not climbed to the warm corner of my sensitivity as goose bumps, if not falsify the world with a beautiful and soft voice, and I was not a despot, if not then transform the gospel in a gentle story, if authorities do not drown out the howling dog, or not testifying of the elephant, or praying to the Guardian Angel- I did not want to be the case I am not the guardian angel, and if I knelt when you altered in a tiny whisper. “To me is given all authority on earth. Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.” How I prepared myself for this mission? First of all by twenty-seven years accompanying to John Paul II during his pontificate constantly, then through the voyages to the world. Temporal distance between my journey into the world and publishing of my thoughts it causes that the next book is already a bank cash, as the title says: ‘Receipts for prosperity and hope’, he is the bill after the trip. Not here, not during, not even after. As if I needed time to make the unspoken, unspeakable, to enter that in the literature … I would like to describe the pride and happiness of believers, by virtue of the fact that they are not surrounded with respect and are often persecuted. With a huge open spiritual appetite in writing to the sounds of Polish, I open on my homeland, I introduce widespread belief in the power of words. I want to show otherness of my country, another country also. But I show in the writing primarily visited by me the places on earth. In these reflections there is a danger always, which you cannot escape through, the extension of colonization of ‘a foreign’ country, in order to read it as part of our anatomy charts and does not take into account the country how it meets, but to read it only in terms of difference, in terms of which, unfortunately, commonly used by the modern world. So I want to tell you about my life as a man’s life, which closed was closed in the company of some people. Literate is a man who is harder to write than others. There is not only true and rational cognition, but also the same view through the human heart. I do not describe a man as a social man, but as entangled in the difficulties that brings everyday life. I’m not civilized man. Although I am with our society constantly. Captain Nemo, Jules Verne’s alter ego said: ‘Think about it. Sea is just the epitome of the supernatural and wonderful existence. It is only love and emotion, it is infinite loving/…/ On the surface there is hunger and fear. Men still make unjust laws. They fight, they fall apart. Just a few meters beneath the waves their reign ceases, their evil drowns. Here on the ocean floor is the only independence. Here I am free! … We are trying to hunt and do cultivation here.’ Professor Pierre Aronnax, the narrator of Verne’s book said: ‘Underwater?’ Captain Nemo gave a word: ‘sea provides everything to my desires.’ Professor Pierre Aronnax not stand with the answer, he confessed: ‘strange twilight world opened up before me and I felt like the first man to set foot on another planet, an intruder in this mystic garden deeply. ‘Then Captain Nemo said: ‘there is hope for the future. When the world is ready for a new, better life, one day it all comes, in God’s good time/…/ I could say I am, in his service, I saw the bounty of the sea and his goodness. I will never betray him-for any gold in the world.’ I left you here, where today they do not eat this bread! I tell you: ‘Do not worry about your life, here is what you eat and drink, nor about your body, what ye shall put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? The birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap, nor gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Who of you by worrying can make even one while to his life? And for raiment why are you anxious? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they do not work or spin. And I say unto you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of them. So if the grass of the field, which today is and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, God so clothes the, is he not much more you of little faith? Do not worry so much and not saying, What shall we eat? What shall we drink? What shall we wear? Because of all the Gentiles seek. Your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. Seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for tomorrow, for tomorrow for yourself will take care of. It is sufficient for the day his povertyl? (Mt 6,25-34) O God, the infinitely holy, strong and smiling, who created me. I do not want to have anything! Dear brothers and sisters! Although I am not to this series I want to get back to you! Today I’m in a very difficult situation, by the time I have to a lot of time to survive. A few people I met in my life, I believe in man. Because everyone is for everyone. I showed to you full of gratitude for the donated my life. It is true that my country had been already. Meine Heimat schon war! But yet again I am going to proclaim a childhood faith. During the anniversary of my childhood it came back to me, because God took me all that pain? I was not on any war, from the third year of life I fought in the backyards of our town, we played with friends in the war chronically. I was a protege of my childhood. Whether it was the grace of late birth? Probably not: I was born at the time! First, I had only not two but just one of the best scores: the geography was my goal. For that reason I got then a beautiful dedication in ‘Pan Tadeusz’ book. In the fourth grade-class I was privileged, I think we played with friends in the robbers seriously. My holy faith in class 4a? ‘The farther and nearer; when the church was so silent as the dark, in the house was still the same thing, so differently; when Saint Anthony cut bangs and always found his lost keys (and looked compassionately at me from that altar), and the Blessed Virgin was better because before the war, when he had no pretensions to anyone, even soaked to the skin jackdaw and love was so pure that suckled God, united, and therefore possible; when I was worried that the Lord Jesus was not ill, he would have failed communion.’ Let us return for a moment to my unworthy person. In the older classes I still had the fire inside, I started to burn to learn. Then I wanted to be a commentator on Olympic Games. Yes. We had a teacher who for my life has become very important, Professor Joseph Mikołajtis-only the best grades in the Polish have created a high school diploma, I suppose. Since high school it started my doubled existence, two final exams. Before the war the ‘soviet’ Government with the new Poland of a solidarity, I passed the exam, such heavy reliance helped me to immediately go to Seminary? During the assassination attempt on the Polish pope I was in the seminary. After the study of philosophy I have not yet started the road toward the truth of theology. Mom, maybe it would be crazy, amazing, unstoppable, when I could once again tell you about what I experienced in my vocation, how everything went: the baccalaureate, the first parish Konopiska, then Rząśnia, Krakow, typewriter, the first computer, many discoveries that we have made at a time. I was just lucky in the right eyes cover these areas. This was a great time… Once the priesthood saved me, because I was bad in other areas. I constantly repeat now: ‘ The p priesthood on my own I am afraid, I am afraid my priesthood and in front of the priesthood in the dust I fall, and I kneel before the priesthood. In July morning of my ordination to the other gray — probably some enormous power of a sudden began in me. I’m going with the other tram — run the other down the street — I cannot believe how the mystery of my soul is.’ I closed on my blog, my website, some of my other priestly experience, you can read it and send comment. In the run up past decades, our space has become a passionate work (Feuerwerk). Today we know that there must be a matter that we cannot see. See now how the universe big is? Therefore, changing the reality must be a great change in the bigger picture of a Christian, I would say , as the eclipse of the sun over our sinful nature, a native from “20,000 Miles Under the sea” J. Verne a. As I said I have great love(Vorliebe) for Verne? I regret that too few I used the fantasy straight from Verne in school. That was as much of the blessed shadow in the church, as much as is possible. Personally, I am presenting now the role of the relationship between science and man above all. I already explained this matter. People are interested in not theologians, but people who are studying theology. In all my writings I’m talking about everything, of ‘the robbers’ as well, I also reach the tragic story of Marie Antoinette to contemporary sexual scandals in the church. Beloved, the root of evil lies in the teaching of family, school, catechesis in the church. Some people they heard the call to celebrate my priesthood. I blesse now especially those who do not go . I received two beautiful letters rejecting an invitation to the ceremony. I embrace them , those who wanted to be here, but they were unable to attend. A friend wrote to me: ‘Also, I warmly greet you, but unfortunately we cannot come because I work in Sttutgard in Germany-only back in early July, and as Wiesia and mother in law I do not know you need to call them. May God guide you on your way. God bless. Cezary/…/ Submitting heartfelt congratulations and wishes, thank you for the invitation with regret, noting that we cannot use it, once again all the best, warm greetings.? (K. Szymanski of Czestochowa TV Orion)/…/ Dear celebrating man his feast! Let me this way I will offer you our best wishes. In this important day for you. I will pray for your intentions. Although, in such a way as to speak of solidarity in the celebration. I have already pre-planned activities, and yet I’ll see you on the anniversary of ordination. With God, Jack F./…/ We are really grateful for your invitation, but since your country is really far from ours, will we just wish you the best of luck and a lovely day on the special occasion. Kind regards/…/ Attention, Respected, We are in receipt of your invitation but We can be able to fly down to Poland because of the circumstances beside us but wish you happy in the Jubilee in advance. Your’s in service. Hon Paul Ikeotuonye Esq. Abidjan.‘ Mom, I have no interest in these wishes. ‘ We cannot do a step toward the sky. Such travel vertically beyond our reach. If, however, for a long time looking at the sky, God comes and takes us to the top. Lifts us up with ease.’ We have to work. Waiting a long time I think of this celebration the 25th anniversary of my ordination to the priesthood and a peculiar illusion of everyday life, the most of the swap I would deferred on a little more human love. Love for God is pure when joy and suffering, arouse in us the same gratitude. Dostoevsky said: beauty will save the world, and yet I say: time to save the world. Thus, in spite of all I want to do the will of God-(fare volonta di Dio) I want to listen to God. Though only the land of ancient tombs of thy silence, heard and know, my mother whispered now, I believe. I stand here with you today, dear Ząbkowice believers, and every muscle, nerve and face, a dangerous heart remembers your history, I’m here to sing the song of the amount of the sacrament of marriage. Father, Mother, they are the living stones of the church. But these stones protrude from the sea of evil in our world. Poet said: “The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the globe. His breath is pure and healthy. It’s a huge desert, where man is never lonely, because I feel confused with life on all sides.” Together with us our priests swim in that sea. I believe that priests are the spirits who came from now on the earth. Each priest, I am sure, he could walk in a cloud of the largest, he was not going to wound it through. Today I met yet unknown people, including young people of this parish. You have the right to the church of your dreams! And I happen to not listen to public rights left. But it is Christ who introduces, brings the atmosphere of love, the fullness of love is waiting for your personal reply. He came to save not many (molto), but some of them(nulla). We do not much, just a little love rather than many, and any sin. I meditated it right from the moment when the day after the Centennial celebrations of the Parish, ie 20 September last year, we agreed to the Pastor at this feast. Now does not exist any insurmountable difficulty for us to love togother. We go from the reality of the real (to do the will of God) to the reality of the Trinity, therefore, give more and more of our inner life with God and his mother. Someone would tell some other experiences. But now, the smallest the same goals ahead of me. Dear, we are the living people, receive the cross, do the will of God! Look at Peter’s encouragement to the one of consistency, coherence in moral life. Dostoyevsky said: “Brethren, before the sin people do not go back! Love the people even in their sin, which is the image of God’s love, supreme love. God loves all creatures, the whole universe, like every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of God. Love the animals, glorify every plant and every thing. If you love each thing, then reveal the secrets of the things of God. When all is revealed, then you’ll see every day more and more truth. And finally you embrace the whole world in love universal.’ The people mighty they often sighed, envy: ‘ If only on a historic moment … If only to our nation, such a leader and a genius! … and we have the power .. and once again the power forward, trusting in the help of the sky, at first – after our ideals! Have you read books after all, poets, so you know: faith touching the rock, the word is an act’s testament. And he threw aside of our disbelief ballast (surprisingly), then you would see what could do people, criminal, ready, mighty!’( J. Tuwim) (But) ‘We are the people humble, simple people, count no supermen nor giants; of our God for a different strength weplease, for another way to greatness ; the cloud over us you kindle on the glow, hit us in the heart of the golden bell, open us to Poland, as a thunderbolt open sky overcast. Let us clean up the house speaker, so from our ashes and ruins of sacred and from our sins, win the damned. Let it be poor, but clean our house from the cemetery going up. Of our Earth when it wakes up from the dead and may the dawn of freedom becomes a golden for ground. Let the governments of the wise, good men are, strong in wisdom and goodness . And when the people on their feet able, let him raise his fist vein: Give working in the possession of the fruits of work in the villages and towns; delicious humility may be armed, angry humble pride useful; do not let that bastard sword had had the cross as a handle of your passion. Let it come Let them fill the good will of noble hearts, which have risen in defeat, restore to us the bread of Polish subtitles, restore us to the Polish pine coffin. But most of all – to our words, amended by the cunningly men, you restore uniqueness and truthfulness. Let the law is always right, and justice – justice. Let the more your name is in the deeds of people than in their songs, fools subtract the gift of dreams, and dreams of precious would be real. May we be able to bless the fire, which destroyed our belongings when the fire is a cleansing for our souls affected by rotting. Let each Poland be great: Sons of her spirit and her body give the size of our hearts when will be great, and the size of hearts, when it is small…Thy hands, with which blood is pending, together with the nails from the cross and rip the cover up, cover their eyes when the time for revenge will be approached. The con for us to break the Order of the Lord, when we wade to Warsaw, through Tatra mountains of the dead bodies. Closer to Thy suburbs we will kneel quarantine in the field, full of hope and sorrow: hope – that we come out with friends of opposite City crosses, bearing in the eyes of forgiveness, and tears of joy and not a reproach. My people mighty they often sighed, envy: If only a historic moment in our nation … If only such a leader and a genius for us now! … From “Poland (seemingly) armed ” a young man- march, march, coat of coconut.’ (Flowers Polish) Our poet wrote: Man: ‘On the night kneels down and try to find God, then in the eyes of fear wear and tear on long-, the parting of the road somewhere, someone he made a wrong way and crying like you. It smells like a blooming jasmine from the village, among the golden wheat fields dream of-one who woke you who you are, where to swim in endless nights and days. Nobody hands you are not looking good, no one tells whether right or wrong, just the land of ancient tombs of thy silence, heard and knows. ‘(J . Twardowski) O Lord our God, who through the Ascension of your Son so exalted our nature. Hear us, O God of our salvation, and give us confidence that through this celebration of the sacred mysteries of the whole church to reach perfection, and it is through Christ as his head-which, in your glory has been, who lives and reigns with you for ever. Mary give us the grace of eternal salvation also. Amen. Praised be Jesus Christ!