Stanislaw Barszczak, Holiday retreats
(Misdroy, North-Western Poland, July 2019)
Human history is not terrible winter nor cold. However, I am convinced personally that from the youngest years I’m just pushing a pawn on the chessboard of the world. Trying to write my first youth text, I could not even suppose that his title “I do not like Monday” turns out to be prophetic in the matter of serving the people of the beginning of the third millennium. It seems to me that just like Mr. Yanis Varoufakis is already announcing the “Monday press conference” on the optimal economic management in the European Union of free states and nations, so other problems of mankind will be resolved in the very next Monday. I am afraid that the conquest of the moon, the silver globe, for the second time, will be commented on next Monday. So we can not like Monday … The European Union is based on big business, not on human needs… This is a cartel based on huge business in Brussels yet. Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, founder of the Democracy Movement in Europe (CIEM 2025), continues to unblock the mechanisms of European policy, after 2015 he was removed from current affairs in Brussels (I am referring to Greece’s long-term debt in the European Union). We need to reduce taxes, release debts. The Central Investment Bank finances entrepreneurship, the capital of Europe, comments the former finance minister of Greece, and the Central European Bank purchases the investment funds. Financial overloads are arising, it is not clear what to do with the budget, although every government promises reforms. Despite the fact that there is a surplus of money, there is still a printout of new money, which is probably not used yet … The Central European Commission agrees. In this way, instead of giving away bonds, bank shares, to people to make use of them, the money is not used. If we were to give away the money, the financial surplus, let us say, on Monday morning, the financial debt of individual countries would very quickly fall by several dozen percent. Mr. Varoufakis speaks of “good debts”. We need a convincing growing history of “ruling” in the 28 EU countries, the embodiment of economic growth through ‘bank cuts’, healthy economics. There is fear of such decisions. There is no lack of similar claustrophobia in the present Europe … As I have said, I am not interested in power (German: Macht) but mutual recognition. I believe in public wisdom, in telling people the truth. There is no patent for truth. We make big mistakes, also at the church one’s. Because we have bad advisers. Personally, I had an infantile attitude about my mother, in love with my mother, and now she reads with great tension the contemporary diplomatic vandalism. In my homeland is now talking about a rapid economic growth. I understand well, rates, pots are large, so we can constantly stumble, struggle together to open up to economic competition. However, he does not understand this success when it comes to faithfulness to traditional family structures, experiencing the world through a media window, futuristic technique. A generous welfare state will not replace the economic solution of our environment. Market economy and freedom of conscience in the Christian atmosphere of godliness, that is to maintain (see, ang.sustainability). But let these things move freely, in the convection of even the most difficult things with a burning concern for the well-being of man. The more recent media are submitted to us on the principle of shocking. But comprehensive systems in dynamic society, environmental relations based on care, as I said, do not impede the market economy. Because there is no return to traditional structures, I think. Thus, the conservatism of the church often loses from the avant-garde of consciousness based on God. Church could be an unexpected story, a huge number of successes are being wound … Yes, the strength of our dreams is great. As you know I am very honest about my past. And just preacher, pastor, he is the hero of history, I ponder. What will the preachers of the future present, or just obscene scenes, indecent only! Many of you have come here from far away. Our holidays in Misdroy, north-western Poland, are reading adventures, ‘lounging,’ lying on the sand beach, walks on “the promenade of stars”(polish, Promenada Gwiazd), making good cuisine, watching good performances from India, etc. But we have the opportunity to participate in the Missions at the cross in the church of St. Peter here. Everyday blessing with the relics of the cross, a crown to the Divine Mercy, a litany to the everlasting blood of Christ, individual adoration, a novena to the Mother of God of Perpetual Help, the opportunity to watch the evening time films, as part of meetings with the polish “film evangelization movement”. And all this is our participation, because we loved God … We are bowing to God. Father, those who need moral support, give an answer in Jesus Christ. Amen… God knows everything about us, knows everyone’s heart, knows what man needs, God is the Lord of the Sabbath. Daniel’s book, chapter five, foretells the future. Already everything was in the world, ahead of us. Regarding our predecessors, the Prophet Jeremiah also prophesied everything. King Belshazzar (Belszasar) ordered a big feast to be organized. During that time, some hand wrote on the wall of the banquet hall “mane, tekel, fares”. It is known like this, God remembers! And Belshazzar, the king of Babylon, son of Nebuchadnezzar, according to the bible, he ordered to cover the table at the feast with golden and silver vessels taken from Jerusalem. Baltazar was guilty of crime, immorality, drunkenness, though he was the master of the Feast. But the judgment, tribunal of God is coming. Daniel was called, who was the third person in the Babylonian state to explain the writing on the wall. The Bible is pure in the sense that it accentuates the basic issues, God loves to be humble. And Daniel spoke to the king, he is too late, ‘you are finished, you must repent of sin,’ in the face of wickedness go to God! And we are on the judgment of God. Our deeds, sins, everything will be once exposed to daylight. Friendship with the world, it’s unfriendly with God. If God told us today what to do, we certainly would not believe it. But we live with a living God. Admit it to Jesus. Whoever has been given more will require more from this. Finally, start a relationship with Jesus. What did you do to your neighbor, did you visit him in jail, did you wear or feed him? You did it, but not me, Jesus said. We have to repent because we are chosen. “Jesus became a sin for us” … I am stung this story. But I would like to show you the fullness of our end, of the transitoriness, and finally the salvation of man. Because “I passed as a will” love! Over the ocean is a good gift now. My story in essays is for reading on the internet. This is a very intense story. Let’s start now, the two scenes are decorated with the cute cathedral in Chartres, namely the Good Samaritan and Christ on the cross. Very realistic, almost apocalyptic scenes. I find here a lot of words. Perhaps, let me say it, we do not know any friendship, no music. That’s why I intend to include the pure thinking of a Christian into the human bloodstream. A good Samaritan met a poor man on the way from Jericho to Jerusalem. He took pity on him, many passed by him, the priest also passed him. Friends. I find Jericho as a place of our everyday life with its sin, wealth, emotions and human choices. Jerusalem, on the other hand, shows the last perspective of heaven, human happiness for ever. And we are just on the way from Jericho to Jerusalem. No institution can heal us, although the sacraments of the church can do so. And we are on the path from sin to heaven, happiness in heaven, blue Jerusalem to choose God. A good Samaritan, certainly without German origin, I believe, Samaritan introduces us to the church, in its very center. Let’s notice his work. He laid the poor, and finally this man, beaten by the robbers, ordered a suspension to the inn, and he paid for his local residence there. The parable of the samaritan is a beautiful look at love. Beloved, I do not show you a Hades, but a final, eternal church. In my life, I’ve done a lot of work in the field of science. Yet another interest in European politics … In Strasbourg, a new chairman of the European Commission, Ms. Ursule von den Meyer, was elected in nine voices of these days. The world then “went mad” from the position of technology. And I go with the cell phone in my hands. But at the same time I am the author of several religious books. What I say may be dramatic for you … At the same time I am very happy, as I think. However, I have seen storms before being endowed with love. As a baptist, I feel as if immersed in this world, you see now. I read, I wrote pages before making my luggage. I traveled on different levels of life, maybe I finished two schools only. One day I went to the Orient Express train and now traveling in it, I am responsible for recognition of the world of modernity. And now, brethren, and you are parliament, choose how good I am, doing good. With the preachers of tomorrow, who encourage us with their triumphal voice, even to the most probable diagnosis and self-discovery. Meeting God, it is just strong love. The relationship with God is the relationship of father and son. So, I am presenting pure thinking, I do not present comprehensive heroes of history. Because good is good. Preacher, he is the hero of history. And we often behave as if we had a hat in front of us and trousers lowered by the knees. However, it is about love, and Christian identity in the face of the transitoriness of man. The scapular, a medal of mother of God, the crown of God’s mercy, the rosary, these prayers based on these aids, this is a great will of Mary to save the world. Today, we recite it with the Pope… So, I believe that Mary, the mother of Jesus, son of God, she will extinguish all the fire of wickedness on the earthly globe, where the banality of evil is lost, but also good fortune. Life is too short to deal with bad qualities. So I saw the church always as the last snow, I think. However, I still remember Jesus’ “Woe Capernaum city”! Because you did not recognize of the time of visiting God. In showing you the “madness and genius” of the human journey in this world, often fascinated by the presence of earthly butterflies and cicadas, I do not cease to reveal for you the eruption of the life of God. Do we recognize the mercy of God in the “subversive” world, also in our homeland. Father once showed little Milosz Europe (read Czesław Milosz, Polish Nobel laureate). I found this text in German. He certainly showed the lands to the west of Lithuania, the first homeland of the poet, and so he pointed to Poland. “Hen behind the forest and the field, yet another field, is the ‘water’ that mirrors, the golden world gathers into the sea, the world enchanted in a tulip shows, concealing itself in it as in a shell .. The father says that Europe is ‘there’. It is clear that this world can be handled, it is important to reach this in the hands. It still burns from many storms and wars, but there are many people, dogs and horses living there, where the cities are colorful and rich .The rivers are made of silver wire and the white mountains like goose down are also a velvet blanket that covers the lands.” (quote end) We’re calling holiday time now. It’s the only season of lovers. Live in the sun between blue sky and ocean, live in the sun, because it seems one hundred thousand musicians are in our eyes; forget that the snow is in the middle, let us forget that we remain in Paris with its glow of fire, forget that we are in full winter … Finding a friend very difficult, during my crazy as well as wise years, I would experience it. Man from the face. Because we do not watch, looking for. Therefore, one evening I spoke in the church to you: straighten the paths of the Lord, and on the other day I unveiled the “transitoriness of man” from the position of the “generation” of the former Archbishop of Buenos Aires, and now Pope Francis. Someone said, the church became a monster. Weak reaction to these words. But this is a very sad statement. During my youth in the cinemas we were presented with a captivating picture of a giant monkey Godzilla, a chimpanzee who impressed the world of people, terrorized him, destroyed the city like “more houses of cards”. Yes, people love long stories, but that picture was actually shown in the unfavorable light of common intimidation. Friends. Imagine you’re still in the Orient Express train. I “took care” to him to see the world from God’s perspective. I am not interested in racism, the superiority of one race over the other. Good growth is free. It is the president of the United States of America who is accused of racism. Because President Trump has to do with the contrasts and extremes. The beautiful lady of the human globe, says: “you have only my face”, as well as “I keep the moon for you”, “meet only at night”, “embrace me, take me and take hold of my hand…” Sufragan from Germany, Bishop Schneider wrote a treatise on the heretical pope. The Byzantine Patriarchal suggests that Archbishop Vigano chose next for Pope Bergolio. The Orthodox Church is convinced that the Pope Bergolio is destroying the church. In one of the interviews on the plane returning from Fatima to Rome, the Pope was to express himself on the subject of the “apparition of Mary” in Medjugorje. The first Revelations were authentic. But then, it’s probably some kind of “head chef in the kitchen” , she reveals herself to the chosen one. I paraphrase the words of Pope Francis … We must defend Francis, I ponder. And the challenges of the modern world and moreover reminiscent of the other ten lost traditions in the Roman Church, namely: self-rule of the priests, circumcision, Latin mass, indulgences, plural popes, war, priests married, unbaptized children go to hell, infallibility, Joseph as father. You need only wisdom in these times. Because we need stability, we are again the first leader of the church, Saint Peter. And we want a zealous renewal of the Church, a 1.5 billion community. So, with my train, I go to Medjugorje in Serbia and Herzegovina. Because there have been an amazing thing for 38 years. Pope Francis on May 12, 2019, he allowed pilgrimages to be made to this extraordinary place. So we go to this place now with all parishes. I can hear it for an hour now. The parish in Medjugorje is a brilliant idea of catching the whole world up. The Mother of God reveals her beauty. And I went there twice. Archbishop Hoser from Poland is now a visitator in Medjugorje and messenger of the Pope. “This is a completely new format of revelations, says the Archbishop. Mirjana, for example, every second day of the month among pilgrims at the cross on the mountain of Podbrdo. There are also two people who have private, internal views in their homes every day. These are all things that need to be tested. But you also need to realize that it is also necessary to realize that in all published contents of the apparitions you can not see any doctrinal errors /…/ People come here with a huge hunger for God, whom they do not even realize – says the Archbishop- this “phenomenon”, which is Medjugorie, was covered special protection of the Holy See. And since it is a vivid and dynamically growing reality, it needs to be accompanied. We see here that it overtook formal and canonical and legal solutions. “De facto” Medjugorje is an international pilgrimage site, which is visited by about 3 million pilgrims each year and a great pastoral work is being done here. Meanwhile, in the formal and legal sense, this place remains an ordinary parish: it is neither a diocesan sanctuary, nor national or international. And because of the unregulated status in the church sense, these people are often like sheep without a shepherd. The most numerous groups come from Poland and Italy. And moreover, from eighty countries /…/ Medjugorje are first of all people who come here, who pray here, change here, hence they leave their countries and bring the spirit of the Gospel that they drew here. This is the role of Medjugorje. These people often come from countries where the practice of confession has disappeared, where the Church became very flattened and its activities became superficial. And here they find the depth of faith and a completely different perspective of existence … People react in an unusual way. Let’s look at evening prayer programs that last in the main square for a few hours, and thousands of people are attentively involved – by no-one. Mary’s role – what we see very much here – is to bring man closer to God. And this is Her task in Medjugorje. This is also how one can judge from the statements of thousands of pilgrims who come here. They say they find what they’ve lost before. And it is about finding a vertical dimension of life. Because please note that everything we create today is “horizontal”: societies are horizontal, culture is horizontal and even the church becomes “horizontal”. Everything can be described in sociological terms. But somewhere this fundamental transcendental relationship has been lost, creating all our other relationships and their quality … In order to enter the essence of Medjugorje, one must stay here longer. Apparently, Our Lady told a well-known French mystic, Marta Robin, that even the Holy Spirit can not transform the soul of a sinner in less than five days. Therefore, one must gradually enter this holy time. God takes into account our biological nature, which requires time. And the second thing is the space that in Medjugorje is an isosceles triangle: a church and two mountains. The first is Križevac, the mountain of Jesus Crucified and the Hill of the Apparitions of Mary (Podbrdo). One leads the Way of the Cross and the other is the Rosary Path. All this topography is the natural background of this place … There are moving moments when people, even very old, in their old age, fall on their knees on stones to the hill of apparitions. The stones are already polished a bit. Medjugorje means “Between mountains”. That’s all you have to go out and pray. The liturgy in the church (in summer at the esplanade) in Medjugorje is arranged in a weekly cycle. Every morning there is a morning Holy Mass, in the afternoon a rosary is said. The evening block begins with a conference or a prayer together. At 18.00 there is a main Holy Mass, followed by a prayer of thanksgiving for healing. On Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, adoration of the Blessed Sacrament is crowned. The Cross is adored on Fridays. In this way, Holy Mass and Christ is always at the center of events … There are numerous retreats, catecheses, sessions and congresses in which also ordinary pilgrims take part. In addition to prayer, pilgrimages to Križevac and the Hill of Apparitions and participation in the liturgy, everyone can find something for themselves. There are also seminars for marriages and families and for medical professionals. For two or three years, seminars for people interested in pro-life issues have been organized. Separate seminars are intended for lacerated people, those who survived the dramatic situation or did something wrong themselves and need healing. Last week, we began a retreat every year for priests from around the world that last a week. Several hundred priests from several dozen countries came. And from August 1 to 6, annual International Youth Festival takes place in Medjugorie. After the Holy Father’s message of May 12 – which legalizes the organization of official pilgrimages to Medjugorje – we invited high ranking hierarchs to him. A papal vicar for Rome, Angelo De Donatis, Archbishop Rino Fisichella, chairman of the Pontifical Council for New Evangelization, Archbishop José Rodríguez Carballo, Franciscan, secretary of the Congregation for Consecrated Life, Cardinal Vinco Pulić from Sarajevo and Bishop Dominique Rey from Toulon in France, who is a specialist in new charisms and will talk about it to the young. Last year, 50,000 took part in the Festival. young people from 52 countries … Already two years ago, it was calculated that over 700 priestly and religious vocations were born here … There is also the Village of Mary. There are also addicts there, the House of Merciful Jesus. Biological or social orphans live in these homes, children are not adapted to problems. Children from the village and the surrounding area also come to their kindergarten. Permanent villagers live with two adult volunteers. Among them are the Franciscan Sisters. These places are furnished like normal apartments, and the groups are small, about eight people. It provides a family atmosphere. Children have medical and dental care because there are medical and psychological offices at the village. The second such place is the House of the Merciful Father, referring in his name to the parable of the Prodigal Son. There are men living there after the passages – addicts, former prisoners, alcoholics, addicts … learn to pray and work. There are various ateliers there, where they perform devotional works. In Medjugorie, there is also a solidly developed, yet demanding further development of the media sector. In addition to the transmission media founded by the Franciscans, there is also an American “Mary TV”. Every day, live all the liturgies and celebrations from Medjugorje. They translate everything that happens in a few or a dozen languages. Another important issue requiring care and careful collection are archives. I saw a large, multifaceted bookcase with medical records of healings. A permanent medical commission would be useful, as in Lourdes.” (These were the words of Archbishop Hoser, a visitator in Medjugorje (see Aleteia Polska, 19/07/2019) So, not so long ago we only had the Revelation of the Mother of God to “individual people” only and now we have “collection all those who see,” Mary reveals them herself in the community of the whole church, how not to rejoice in this church. Friends. We had Olawa in Poland years ago, there was a man who saw God’s mother there, but reverend Polish Primate Archbishop Joseph Glemp, under the advice of the faithful from Poland and not only, in Zakopane city, he issued the painful administration of not visiting bungalow in the garden (in polish, Altanka) with Mother God in Oława, so I think (but this is my isolated view). And now we can only envy the Herzegovina’s zeal for God’s service and the abundant grace of Mary of God. In Germany 216.000 Catholics and 220.000 Protestants left away the church. So, there are still healthy people, and weak people, ie. people without character, at least considered ill etc. Though, the complacency of people at the threshold of the third millennium is put in first place. We do not meet in one generation yet. And without the support of a family, a rich cartel, an organization, you can not do “career”, except a money. Only money and bonds are counted. And in this situation the church enters on the scene. But the latter is not a subversive canoe. That is why people “leave the church”, which punishes to preserve traditional views. We must pray for the church, meet at the “round table”, I believe (as is the case in Medjugorje, people understand this, emphasizing the author’s essay). Because in Medjugorje the generation of Pope Francis is very open and faithful to the good news. “Luckily” the heart is stronger than the mind, I will say rationally. Mary, your feeling makes me helpless. However, I saw a lot in my life, as much as vanity, emotions without coverage. You know, every man deserves love. There is no difference between us, because of religion, belief, sexual orientation. We’re equal. You know how much I want a look from a cordial man, people who would even go to the moon to glorify your son. I just need you. We meet the day after your name-day, I strongly believe. Open the church’s prospects for tomorrow! You know everything that I am not afraid of losing you. Far, far away, the ocean was up before I found you. Gray welts of heaven above us, because I was not too long with you … I am looking at the Polish sea, the Baltic Sea now. Today, blue sky talks about our great love. We are walking hand in hand at the sea. I like listening to what you say. I am looking at the sea because my heart learns so much from it. And you, in Jesus Christ, tell me the eternal truth of victorious love. So you did heal me forever. Amen.
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