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Zoltán Balog, pastor of the Synod of the Hungarian Reformed Church, held a ceremony at the Reformed Church on Hold Street in Budapest on Sunday morning. The Reformed bishop held the service in Hungarian and German, highlighting the importance of including in our prayer in the current situation all that is missing:
closeness, freedom of encounter, joy, healing.
He also spoke of the fact that although carelessness and hopelessness invade everyday life, let’s say gratitude for what we have, let’s rejoice at Easter and let love pass through everyone.
He added, at the same time, thanking the many people who work every day so that the coronavirus does not win and not letting the epidemic ruin this beautiful party.
The risen Jesus says over and over again: “Do not fear, I will go ahead of you!” He said at the non-believer worship service, also talking about how this year’s celebration is particularly encouraging, with the risen God outside the temple, anywhere, anytime. .to find yourself alive.
At this feast, we must not leave our daily life now, but allow Jesus to come there.
It is not the holy moments that must be brought together in some profane circumstances, but rather we must and can be able to partake of God’s power and love.
He said, adding that even when our patience runs out, because what is a lot is still a lot, in closing, in moderation, in tribulation. Even when he is being captured by the hopelessness that “somehow life is always unsolvable,” he added, adding that the risen God “awaits us especially when we think of sickness, death,” he addresses and says over and over. Once, “fear not., I go before you!”
Jesus also “goes before you when you meet the other, the hand, the heart, the eyes of the other person.”
When, once again, we can look with curiosity, interest and understanding at someone we do not love, whom we see as an obstacle in our life, or when our work not only yields results commensurate with the energy we invest, but it will . be a blessing, a blessed job.
He said. Zoltán Balog also spoke about whether a person usually thinks at least once in his life about whether there is another person besides him or her who is more than him or her and who has a significant impact on his or her life.
“And when the balance of our lives is upset”, “we ask with our whole lives, we ourselves are the question.” Because “when we ask where God is, we are actually thinking about where He is, who“ maybe can answer the question of what will happen to me, what will happen to us ”.
However, you must seek God in the right place to meet. Not from the dead, the angel tells the women who come to the tomb of Jesus. However, how many times and how many people seek him there, among the dead, in the past, what seems like a lost culture, in what is a memory, a history that has been ruined, failed, listed.
“There we look for God, there we wait for an explanation”, “where were you when you should have been here?” “But we are looking in vain there.” He added that the angel does not even send disciples and women to the temple. Although the church is a good place to meet, it can sometimes alienate you, perhaps the threshold is too high for those who are not used to it. And those who are accustomed may believe that without a liturgical situation, the meeting of God and man can be at best “second class.”
The crucified and risen Jesus tells his disciples to go back to Galilee where they came from and then see him there. Galilee was not a holy place, it had a bad reputation, it was considered a land of unbelief, of paganism. But that was the “space of their lives”, so Jesus was waiting for them. And “waiting for us there”, in our own lives.
Our world, our little country, is not a cursed place, it is not a land of Gentiles, and our lives are waiting here. As the wise teacher says, God is always where He is admitted. This is how our life, our Galilee, will become a temple
Zoltán Balog added in his Easter Sunday speech.
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