dark alleys

Stanislaw Barszczak, ‘Rachel’ rescued orphan!..I came back with a new pastoral journey. I was now in Georgia. Because that there is currently pending a real battle between good and evil. I visited Makhinjauri, Batumi, Gelati, Kutaisi was home Priests Casper Bertoni, founder of the Congregation of the Sacred Stigmata of Our Lord Jesus Christ .. I admired modern Parliament building, a beautiful airport, streets with cobblestones there. ‘The stones will cry out!’ Only to a certain extent we conceive abstraction. One day I was with my mother, but I did not recognize her, she acted like she was a different person. I do not blame her for this attitude, I believe that this time, it had been the result of the erroneous attitudes of my emotional life according to mother, as well as excessive care of friends they worried for her freedom of today. They call me Luc one day… But Luc’s mother was born in a small village in Bielarus. At the age of eighty-six she still remembered vividly the day in 1960 that she left her village and set off for Poland as a immigrant: ”I remember it clearly. The whole village turned out to wave us goodbye and we were all sitting in the cart with our little bundles on our laps and our shawls around our shoulders. I was excited a little bit, but mostly rather miserable and frightened. As the cart got to the end of the village street I could see the group of villagers who were waving us goodbye was getting smaller and smaller, but I kept my eyes fixed on my mother in the front of that little group. I didn’t take my eyes off her… Then, just before the cart turned the corner and I lost sight of them, I saw my mother faint and fall to the ground crying and weeping, and I saw the rest of the group bend over her to pick her up, and I tried to get out of the cart and run back to her and stay with her. But the others with me in the cart stopped me and held onto me. And the cart turned the corner. And I was weeping and struggling and they were holding me. And I never saw my mother again.” Little Luke goes way further, looking for signs. I would like but to break all the masks now and constantly open to deep layers of the human humanity. Mark Twain: you have to move away from the traditional belief and distribute new, which would be suitable for the development of modern civilization. Spiritual ossification of religion unnecessary for man. Religious practice resembles actions of an uneducated gay, he said. In Mark Twain’s criticism of religion, and criticism of society, that is the ‘istinnyj zawiet’- testament inner of the writer; criticism it should turn against all monarchies. Twain’s reflection is any harbinger of a revolution against the Church and the State. I would encourage to take up these Twain figures through the contemporary clergy. The Church must constantly renew. Church needs renewal, the meetings with professionals in order not to miss anything with the grace of the fate of the modern era as well. “To be loved is to cause pain,” wrote Francis Mauriac. If you do not take the challenges of our time, the situation of the church, its liturgy, and finally the ‘social contract’ will turn against us. Any love-when she is with great happiness not separately united. Once the mother bowed under the weight of responsibility for the eternal life of his child. I would say here that I have before my eyes an untouched past my church, I wear constantly responsibility for my church. Why be Catholic is because of childhood, enfance-against what they enriched our emotions and feelings! That Mauriac wrote: “The essence of the Infinite is not our measure / … / to stand out, I was always ready to use everything, even grace.” I wish we jointly detected and explained latent sense of what we have noticed in our church as children, and today do not enough to choose or have to be forced to choose, but let we found in the memory of vivid forest of the wisdom of our church and one of our time.

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