Let the inner peace of Jesus will always be with you

Stanislaw Barszczak– Love of Jesus is to love the cross of the Lord–

Dear candidates for the faith of our Lord. Beloved brothers and sisters. Today it is also the entrance into a new month of life with Christ. In the beginning Selected Poems of Krzysztof Kamil Baczynski, polish poet, who was born on January 22, 1921, and died in the Warsaw Uprising on August 4, 1944. “Each day loving you I cry, I long for you looking, my eyes change to gray, they know, that they will not see. And out of you a bitterness flows like a quiet smoke to the sky, a day like a brittle leaf will fold and a bird, that is with a song unarmed. The prayers are crouching on me fleeting, ach, fleeting. Elementary battles, frightful, lonely. I am learning a body to memory and I know it. It looks as the soul still exists, that lies, and in me it stirs death. After the dreams’ dark surf I look for you, I burn out, my hands useless to me, like a bird, that a nest pollutes. And may be in a silence and in a suffering may be, well, when the night I threaten, the unseen. And I am as hefty as the hands, that on knights pin the bows, in which strength they do not believe. And I am such a strong man, that when words are not needed, I do not know how to create a heaven with love in my eyes. In the brook of your hair, in the river of lips, old woods like an evening dark useless crying, doomed splash. Yet in the dusk I will enfold, yet with a rose of night, and the world will pass by with a twig, a shred or a gesture, and then without a sound will stumble, with a trail will go over the eyes and I will say: by not being I am. Yet so in you swimming, carrying you reflected in pupils or on eyelashes hanging like a tear,
I will hear in you the sea chiseled silver by dolphins, in the shell of your body humming with sleep. Or in the grove, where you are a birch, with white air and milk of a day, a huge barbarian, lifting thousand of centuries. I will stream with a murmur of a grove of young trees in your branches a bird/…/ Dedication: One day — and for longing — a century, one gesture — and already march of hurricanes, one step — and so you only are into each time — a ghost waiting in dust/…/ Tired evenings rest on the mats of the sea (oh, gold thrown by handfuls over green groves!) tremble black cypresses drunk with the night as with sweet wine, they stumble like fat spiders above a languid country. The heat trembles with a fabric half seen on the windowpanes of the evening (oh, sweet heat of moments dying in the swaying of the sea, sweet heat of the arms flooding the world with scents!) Lurking stars awaiting (hidden behind ridges) demise of the sun and explosion into space with silver, into the night dense as honey, flooding eyes and lips…The quiet evening is spreading out, an unarticulated grave of thoughts. Consciousness escaping into clouded ports of the horizons, alone, the evening remains, full of puzzles, but still quiet…” (see, http://fiction-ebooks.com/_/_/482299/selected-poems-of-krzysztof-kamil-baczynski-translated-by-christopher-patkowski#TABLE_397618464) And now it is a poem by K.K.Baczynski ‘To my Parents :“And so this is all you have, then. I was like the linden’s rustle; Krzysztof was the name I was given, and my body – so very little. And up to my knees in the dazzle, like the saint, I was to bear the Lord across a river of animals, sand, people, wading in earth to my knees. Why such a name for a child? Why wings shaped in this way, mother? Why a struggle, father, for such a fault? The earth wet and bloody from my tears. “He’ll bear it all,” you thought, mother: “he’ll name the pain, bring understanding, raise within me what’s fallen; o flower – you said – bloom with the fire of meanings.” Father, it’s hard at the war. You said in your longing, your pain for earth: “You’ll not know human scorn, but you’ll carry a cumbersome fame.” Why should a child need such faith, and why a legacy like a house of flames? Before twenty years have gone by, life will die in his glittering hands. And why a mind like a pine-tree, too high the crown as the cut trunk crashes? And how can the road run so straightly, when the clumsy heart is all ashes? Mother, I cannot name, the pain is too great, death strikes too powerfully from every side. Love – mother, I no longer know if it is; From far away my flared nostrils smell God. Love – what will it give birth to – hatred, streams of tears. Father, I carry my gun in my jacket; in the dark night I fight while the faiths all fade. Father – like you – apart from freedom maybe nothing else matters, or maybe my deed. Day and night, mother, father, I’ll endure in the rifle-fire, I, soldier, poet, dust of time. I’ll go on – this have from you: I do not fear death, as I bear desires like burned roses in my arms.” (K.K. Baczynski) These were not only thoughts. Determined as he was, Krzysztof knew his poetry could not have been enough. He wished to fight. On August 24, the poet’s beloved wife Basia was wounded. She died on September 1, not knowing of her Krzysztof’s death. In many of his poems Baczyński was prophetic. In a poem “A Little Song” (‘Pioseneczka’), dated January 16, 1942, and dedicated to Basia, he wrote:“And so, leaning over the waters, we will float away to oblivion and on earth there will cry for us only our own shadows which we left behind. Thus ends the story of the most heroic Polish upsurge. Krzysztof Kamil Baczynski did not witness the end of the Uprising, he came to rest among the ruins of his own native city just as he prophesied in his verse: For us, one charge – straight up to heaven one medal only- a cross on our grave.” The war ended. Slowly Warsaw raised itself out of its shambles. Buildings, squares, streets, were re-built. Over the Old City King Sigismund reigns again as before from his lofty column.(see, http://www.sppw1944.org/index.html?http://www.sppw1944.org/poezja/baczynski_eng.html) “Today, someone says:” it is easy to be good; it is difficult to be fair,” in this context personally I would say that it is difficult to carry mercy yet!” Someone said, human is to err, and I say that to err is love. Victor Hugo wrote:”Be afraid to themselves/…/ a truly great dangers are within us /…/ It is said that European civilization has abolished slavery. That is not true. Slavery still exists, but now afflicts only the woman and called the prostitution,” the author of ‘the Cathedral of Notre Dame’ had said. “To die – it is nothing; terrible is not live.” We go to the house of Israel, we become more humane now. Saint Augustine commenting on Psalm fourth compared the Christian life to be an employee of wine press. Be an employee of a crushing plant, and know the employee of wine’s experience. We read from the Bible a Christian prayer: “Thou has given gladness in my heart. By the fruit of their corn, their wine, and oil, they are multiplied,”(Cf. Ps.4,8) In prayer that nothing happens without a struggle, a story of love. Go further in this relationship. It has to happen. The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? “I the Lord search the heart and examine the mind, to reward each person according to their conduct, according to what their deeds deserve.”(Jeremiah 17:9-10) The Gospel goes further. Not only do we have to be such workers in the vineyard of the Lord, but go for Christ, for him, every day, every hour. We have to open with him, for his gift is, and an invitation. In this optic it is not only be strong, but also be weak. Whoever serves me, follow Me, Jesus says. This is a basic message of the gospel: follow Jesus. This is a form of our lives. Jesus feasted with people. Feast of the people, a feast with wine tasting, to do that possibility of full human life. Lose your own life, take the life of Jesus. These human cases have every day to sanctify. You have to enter in this concern, in the certainty of Jesus. It’s not about that you have to work in the vineyard, but about the sacramental sanctification, you have to look for a Christian life always (Christian Dasein). This sanctification exposes our special relationship with Jesus. We may to be strong and weak at the same time. Do we make false clericalism? It criticizes Francis, the pope from Argentina. The faith of the babtism source comes from a higher inspiration. Love the cross beams cross by love of the Lord. From this spiritual wealth we drew at the moment of baptism. Jesus can arouse contempt, disregard for you to do this, but you could bear to love. For we also, if we are followers of Jesus Christ, we will be involved in their triumphs. But Jesus will support you in your worries always. Democracy has become strong in our country now. But we asked ourselves what we are as Christians? What it is actually our faith? This question about the identity of the Christian faith is placed firmly. The Republic of Poland fills mankind social right, and therein lies its importance now, I ponder. It’s about showing the science of society fully human. Relationship with neighbor does not boil down only to represent his neighbor, but to his call, summoning all the time. Even the war presupposes peace, that is neighbor, he’s there. In this context, Emmanuel Levinas passes through the intrigue of infinity. For selfness (resp. a conscious human life), in its passivity without beginning, the formation of identity, this authenticity, human selfness, it is still a bet, man enters into an unwritten bet on man. Here goes wager with greatness and dignity of every person (see, fran. ‘otage’, the noble game of man). Consequently today you want to justify in terms of multiplicity in ethics (fran. diversité). As of Polish Christians we have to be the followers of Christ in all things. Who wants to serve me, follow me everywhere, Jesus says, in the service of certainty. In the gospel of John, in the optical gospels, in all the gospels it is about the question: follow Jesus (see, german Nachfolger von Jesu), what often criticizes Pope Francis. I should live, should live! I wish courage here (coraggio), because the tail of life is difficult to skinning. The wisdom of Jesus means to not trust themselves. The love of Jesus be the star that leads you to him. Jesus will give you the courage, would you hated life with merit. Let’s us be always higher and higher. We need to know that Jesus loves us, to the great love. Abraham was a hundred years old, and begat Isaac. “The son of the handmaiden does not have to share the heritage of my son Isaac,” (Genesis 21,5.8-20). “Poverty is screaming, you understand.” (Psalm 33/34).  “Father willed to give us birth by the word of truth that we may be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.”(James 1:18) Love the cross for love of the cross of the Lord! It is not so that one can say: Gone with the us already! You have to believe! And enough! Modernist world is not going for it. On the other hand you have people to invite, lest they walked by faith, lest I discovered and learned what an adventure of the spirit is. You have to open horizons in the faith, not close them. Naturally, we sometimes burdens passing years, tens of years, we carry the burdens continually. Experiencing it with me people say: Faith comes to me, like the world, which is too narrow, which gives me instructions. We take the church often only as a moral substitute in a substitute (see, German Anstatt); because morality is the most important in the Catholic faith. But this is not true. Friends depart from me, as from Job. The priest left me today, he does not believe me, he can do well. People but come to me still at night, and the night someone opened the door of mine … Personally, I could see you better these situations, I think. Friends depart from me, because I go the way of Christ, because this way the cross of Jesus, our Lord. But for this I give thanks to God. The bottom line is, the sky opens and that from there for someone to voice says: you should live, you should live! I give thanks to God for you now. “O Thou, who Art, the Omnipotence Ecclesiastes said, you are called the Creator of the Maccabees, a letter to the Ephesians is called you Freedom, Baruch you is called Infinity, the Psalms call you Wisdom and Truth, John is called the Light, Kings call you Lord, Exodus is called you Providence, the Book of the Levites – Holiness, Ezra – Justice, every creature is called you God, man is called you the Father, but a Mercy Solomon is called you – and this is the most beautiful of all your names. ” God, you are my cross forever. And Mary. Mother of Jesus stares at you especially on the Sanctuary of Czestochowa in a merciful manner. I love you in all things, and I constantly would want to proclaim that my message and all Christian mission take power in you. Amen.

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