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“The celebration is associated with a real historical person – the Mother of God Mary, with a real event in his life – death, with what happens after it with the human body – the burial and with that wonderful peak of faith and reality when God intervenes in the consequence of disorder, sin, death and returns man to his original state.
With death, God removes the shame of man and in the person of Mary he shows us, people of faith, Christians around the world, an image of the future of man ”, says R. Doveika.
Notice that many still tend to say that man has a body and a soul. However, according to the priest, the Festival of Herbs brings more clarity to this sentence:
“Man has neither body nor soul, but man is body and soul. These are the truths that allow man to be a living being, to be a person, a creature, and it is through this celebration that the fact that Christianity never devalues man and his body is reexamined. The body has a great future ”.
R. Doveika points out that by celebrating St. Taking the Virgin Mary to Heaven, one of the most important holidays for the Virgin Mary, we can see the work of God in the lives of each one of us.
“In his person, God shows to what extent he has entered the life of his creation and what he guarantees to those who look back to his creator, life, eternal life, glory and complete communion with himself. God introduces here the glory of eternal life ”, says the priest.
Herbal: a celebration of life and communion.
According to R. Doveika, through Žolinė, believers celebrate the fact that life, not death, is the last word on everyone’s path. On this day, it is remembered that both temporality and eternity merge into one person:
“Man celebrates a victory that is not even felt in practice, but in which it is worth believing, in which it is worth trusting, that the common vocation of all is to live and be life givers. The Christian community celebrates the common vocation to live by celebrating the Herbal.
It is also remembered that every believer is a giver of life, that we must spread the message around us to the world that we can never give in to disappointment. And that the future of the world is not death, but life. “
The priest also emphasizes that one of today’s goals is to remind people of the importance of communion and to show that everyone can contribute to a better and more just life.
“We are not only a painful community, but also a traveling community. We are a wounded, fallen, sinful, but fearless humanity. We are people who know well what it means to betray, what it means to push another person, but also that we do not give up and want to love heaven and earth.
We look at other people, at the saints, we admire their lives, but this holiday reminds us: whether you are a criminal or a saint, death touches the same way, because death is a shame for all of us. All die, saints and sinners, even the mother of God dies, and man opens his life to God incarnate.
Many people complain that holiness is inaccessible to us, we are imperfect and sinful. But there is another angle to looking at the same vocation: experiencing communion and unity with God.
Could you find in yourself the strength and courage not to pressure the person you know? If I trust in faith, I struggle with my sins, imperfections, I can make mistakes and stumble very painfully, but do I have the strength to get up again and move on, to clean myself of the dust and again to make an effort not to push a person? ? “Emphasizing the meaning of Herbal asks rhetorically R. Doveika.
Man can’t give in to frustration
The priest emphasizes once again that the integrity of the human body and soul is exalted on this day. It also emphasizes that even as part of a community and experiencing a sense of unity, each person remains unique and does not become unified objects.
“It is the day of humanity and we celebrate it with all our body and soul. When we say that man has a body and a soul, it seems that he can decompose: the body is buried as unnecessary and the soul travels through reincarnations, searching again for other bodies and thus obtaining the disguise of such a disfigured person.
No. Man is body and soul. Christianity never devalues the body in its exaltation. It is a day of exaltation and human hope that we are called to be part of.
On the Day of Herbs, we are bridges between us so that together, supporting each other, in our faith, personally in God, we can be different and different people. Faith never unifies people. We become a community, a Catholic church, but we are not automatically unified, ”says R. Doveika.
According to him, the Herbal is one of the most unique celebrations that does not deny death, the grave, pain, parting and crying, but at the same time allows us to understand the importance of hope and certainty, eternal life.
“The most important thing is that we find a common vocation: to live and be a giver of life. Therefore, we can never give in to any disappointment”, emphasizes R. Doveika.
Believe that people are aware
Due to the increasing number of coronavirus cases in the public sphere, calls have been made to avoid mass rallies and celebrations, but the priest believes that the Christian community is aware and mature enough that there should be no greater danger of commemorating Herbal .
“I think we have to overcome several fears. Before the Herbal Parties, last weekend, there were half a million people by the sea in Palanga. They did not wear masks, they did not keep their distance, they were in the same water, they touched the same things. Half a million people.
And when faith, hope, communion are celebrated, someone automatically invades it and says that it is a danger. Since when is communion a danger? Since when is prayer, kneeling before God, a danger?
A Christian is a man of high culture and will do everything possible to make the person around him feel safe so that his daily life is not restricted. I believe that all conscious people will always come to the shrines in accordance with the order, ”R. Doveika does not hesitate.
Still, those who feel any symptoms of the disease, urged to stay home and listen to the mass broadcast on radio or television; this certainly will not cloud the spirit of the celebration.
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