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2023. SZEPT.                            BUDAPEST       ANGOL, NÉMET, ROMÁN NYELVŰ CIKKEK


„GOTT HAT IN MEINEM LEBEN IMMER WIEDER ETWAS INTERESSANTES VERDREHT“

„Gott hat in meinem Leben immer wieder etwas Interessantes verdreht“

„Mein Weg war vorgezeichnet, vorgezeichnet“, sagt Dr. Lajos Békefy ist ein reformierter Pfarrer, dessen ökumenischer Dienst in Budaörs begann. Interview von Erzsébet Eller.

„Du warst und bleibst meine wahre Freude, obwohl ich nicht einmal wusste, dass ich dir danken würde. Du, Herr, hast uns Seelen gegeben, Eltern und Kinder, Enkel und Geschwister, Kameradschaft und Umarmungen, Freunde und Lehrer zu Hause und im Ausland, Seelenverwandte, unzählige Gebete für uns und Flehen von ihnen an Dich für mich. Ich bin von hier und darüber hinaus viele Wege bereist, auf dem Seeweg, und Sie haben mir gezeigt: Es gibt nur eine Heimat, jenseits von Land und Land, und dass Sie darauf warten, nach Hause zurückzukehren, in Ihr ewiges Land, dafür danke ich Ihnen immer wieder "

- Mit diesen Worten bedankte sich Dr. für die Anerkennung. Lajos Békefy promovierte am 18. August 2023 mit der Verleihung des staatlichen Ritterkreuzes. Sein jahrzehntelanger Kollege Dr. Und Antal Birkás, Ph.D., Präsident des KDNP Protestant Workshop (dessen Außenminister Békefy 25 Jahre lang war), schrieb:

„(...) wie viele gemeinsame Vorträge, Konferenzen, gemeinsam herausgegebene Bücher, gemeinsam geschriebene Werke, Auslandsreisen, Vorträge, Aufbau politischer Beziehungen.“ Große Straßen, schnelles Tempo – unermüdliche Kreativität. Das habe ich von Lajos erfahren. Diese Auszeichnung ist an der richtigen Stelle! Anerkennung für einen schönen Track ...“

Jedes Mal, wenn ein Feiertag ist, schaue ich normalerweise nach, ob sich unter den Empfängern auch Leute aus Budaörs befinden, und so bin ich auf die obigen Zeilen gestoßen. Ich kannte Lajos Békefy (reformierter Pfarrer, sozialer Aktivist, öffentlicher Schriftsteller, Übersetzer, Forscher, Publizist, Außenminister der Protestantischen Werkstatt, Chefredakteur der Neuauflage von Presbiter Lap) nicht, aber schon seit einiger Zeit kennt er ihn ehrte den Budaörsi Napló, indem er von Zeit zu Zeit die verschiedenen, hauptsächlich seine in theologischen Publikationen veröffentlichten Schriften, hauptsächlich biblische Aufsätze, verschickte.

Dann erfuhr ich von ihm, dass er, obwohl er 1948 in Csorná geboren wurde und dann in Győr lebte, 1971, als er noch sehr jung war, mit seiner ersten Frau nach Budaörs zog. Seitdem lebt er hier, und zwar seit mehr als dreißig Jahren mit seiner zweiten Frau, Klaudia Röhrig, der Mutter der beiden erwachsenen Töchter und Enkelkinder. Beide sind reformierte Pfarrer, mit einer gemeinsamen Weltanschauung, ähnlichen Werten und sogar gegenseitigen Bekanntschaften und doch haben sie erst über Umwege zueinander gefunden.

Ihre Schicksale sind ähnlich, denn neben der Anerkennung gab es für beide auch Ablehnung und unverständliche „Strafen“. Aber vor allem hat Lajos Békefy – nach oben weisend und hinzufügend: mit Gottes Hilfe – immer versucht, den Zeiger für sich und ihren Dienst voranzubringen. Ich danke Gott für die Führung und natürlich für die gewonnenen Erkenntnisse.

Lassen Sie sich jedoch selbst davon erzählen! Um diesen Artikel zu schreiben, luden sie mich in ihr Domb utca-Haus ein, eine kleine Plattenwohnung, in deren Schrank die Reliquien, darunter die neuesten und älteren Auszeichnungen und Diplome, aufbewahrt werden, zum Beispiel die hoch angesehene „Gedenktafel für Strafvollzugsdienst Dr. An Lajos Békefy, einen Beamten und Kaplan der Nationalen Strafvollzugsanstalt Pálhalma seit 2010. Und die von ihm geschriebenen Bücher in den Regalen (darunter 15 eigene und etwa zwanzig Übersetzungen) zeugen von einem reichen Leben. Apropos Auflistung: Fügen wir noch die bisher über 4.200 veröffentlichten Artikel hinzu, die wir allerdings bereits in den Online-Archiven recherchieren können.

Als wir diesen Termin für das Gespräch vereinbarten, schrieb er, dass er nun für zwei Wochen zu Hause sei, danach aber wieder abreisen werde, diesmal nach Rom, in den Vatikan, wo eine weitere Forschungsarbeit folgen werde. Kannst du mir davon erzählen? - Ich habe versucht, mich nach dem Kennenlernen auf das Interview zu konzentrieren. Die Antwort hat mich jedoch sehr überrascht, da es sich um den Völkermord an den Armeniern durch die Türken vom Sommer 1915 bis zur Jahreswende 1917/1918 handelt, den Lajos Békefy vor mehr als fünf Jahren auf Ungarisch zu untersuchen begann.

Nein, er hat keine armenischen Vorfahren, aber da über dieses traurige Ereignis nur sehr wenig bekannt ist, da nicht jeder unter den Armeniern selbst damit konfrontiert ist, warum wurden sie nach seinem Wissen aus den Dörfern und Städten verschleppt und getötet? 1.3 Millionen Menschen, Lajos Békefy, er lässt es nicht ruhen. Und in den Archiven des Vatikans erwartet er reichhaltige Unterlagen aus Berichten und Hintergrundmaterialien zum Briefwechsel zwischen dem Papst und dem türkischen Hof. Das Ziel ist, daraus ein weiteres Buch zu machen.

KEHREN WIR JEDOCH ZUM LEBEN VON LAJOS BÉKEFY ZURÜCK, ODER BESSER GESAGT ZU SEINEN ANFÄNGEN!

„Ich wurde in Csorna geboren und habe mütterlicherseits schweizerisch-österreichische Vorfahren, sodass meine Großmutter Ungarisch lernen musste. Aber in seinen Abendgebeten träufelte er mir auch den guten Geschmack der persönlichen Bedeutung des deutschen Wortes in die Seele. Und auch heute noch, nach vielen tausend Seiten Textübersetzungen, hat dieses Wort noch den Geschmack meiner Großmutter. Und väterlicherseits sind seit Jahrhunderten steinharte Kuns in meiner Seele, kirchenliebende Kun-Vorfahren, bereit, ständig zu protestieren: Wir sind ungarische Calvinisten! Gemäß dem kollektiven Traum unserer Kun-Spezies wollte mein Vater schon immer eine Kirche mit weißen Wänden bauen, zuerst auf dem fruchtbaren, schwarzen Ödland von Karcag und dann in der südlichen Region.

- schrieb er vor fünf Jahren anlässlich seines siebzigsten Geburtstages auf Anfrage.

Dann fuhr er fort:

„Das war alles, was ich tun konnte. Ich konnte drei Kirchen bauen. Ein kleines Kirchenschwein mit den Leuten von Pesterzsébet-Szabótelep. (...) Und zwei Gefängniskapellen im Riesengefängnis in Pálhalma, wo ich fast zehn Jahre lang eingesetzt war(...)“.

Als Antwort auf meine Frage, warum er schließlich Pastor wurde und nicht, sagen wir, Anwalt, Arzt oder Psychologe, wie seine Eltern ihn vorgesehen hatten, erinnert er sich:

„1964 kam ich über die Freunde meines Vaters nach Schweden. Erstaunt über die neue Welt, nahm mich die freundliche Familie eines Sonntags mit in eine katholische Kirche in Malmö. Es war wie eine schwebende himmlische Arche mit seinen weißen Wänden und dem Mast eines Schiffes, der von oben auf dem Kirchplatz hing. Ich weiß nicht wie, nur warum: Ich fiel auf die Knie, Raum und Zeit verschwanden, ich erlebte ein fantastisches inneres Leuchten, der Kirchendiener musste mir auf die Schulter klopfen und sagen, dass die Messe vorbei sei und ich weitermachen solle. Danach studierte ich bereits in den 1960er und 1970er Jahren reformierte Theologie in Budapest, als meine liebe Mutter mir erzählte, dass sie während der Geburt so viel Blut verloren hatte, dass sie tagelang ins Koma fiel. Als er wieder zu Bewusstsein kam, fragte ihn der Arzt, warum er sich wiederholt gegen die Schulter geschlagen habe. Denn als er an der Grenze zwischen Bewusstsein und Unbewusstheit schwebte, sah er ein wunderschönes Licht und in seiner Vision legte ihm jemand eine Hand auf die Schulter und sagte ihm: „Ein Sohn wurde geboren, erziehe ihn!“ Und ich glaube, dass ich seitdem nach dieser Stimme gesucht habe, und sie wird das Wort Gottes genannt.“ Das heißt, er fügt hinzu:

„Mein Weg war vorherbestimmt, vorgezeichnet.“

Über die Anfänge: „In Győr las ich nach Herzenslust ungarische und Weltliteratur, Dostojewski und Jókai wurden meine ‚Liebe‘, Goethe, Kant und andere.“ Ich hatte hervorragende Lehrer, die sich auch 1956 intensiv für Freiheit und Gerechtigkeit einsetzten. Mein Klassenlehrer Vilmos Magyar ermutigte mich, meine liebe Muttersprache zu respektieren und zu pflegen. Dann gaben ihm die Benediktiner, unter denen die Mehrsprachigkeit des Slawisten József Danczi Villebald war, einen lebenslangen Anreiz, Sprachen zu lernen. Und 1956, mit dem elementaren Erlebnis der Freiheit, als ich den Nervenkitzel der Befreiung und die Geräusche des Terrors vor den Toren des Gefängnisses erlebte. Dort hörte ich zum ersten Mal das Knistern von Maschinengewehrfeuer von den Dächern dunkelgrüner Csepel-Lastwagen.

Da traf mich der dramatische Satz fast wie eine Explosion: Ungarn töten Ungarn! Dieser ernste, in der Kindheit erdachte Satz lebt noch immer als quälende Erkenntnis in mir weiter. Seitdem ist er bis heute in vielen verschiedenen Abschriften und Hinterlassenschaften zurückgekehrt!“

So zog er vor 52 Jahren von Győr nach Budaörs, und „hier begann meine klassische Karriere, ökumenischer Dienst, internationaler Dienst (von New York bis zum kleinsten Dorf Siebenbürgens in der skandinavischen Ära), von hier aus ging ich als…“ Stipendiat, zuerst nach Wittenberg, dann wurde ich Ökumenebeauftragter der ungarischen Kirchen. Er ist Herausgeber der Zeitung seines Gemeinderates. Gleichzeitig war ich Pfarrer in Pesterzsébet. Und später schrieb ich in einer kleinen, zwanzigseitigen Publikation über die unvergesslichen 14 Tage, die ich 1989 im spirituellen Trainingslager in Csillebérce unter den DDR-Flüchtlingen verbrachte. Am letzten Tag, gegen sechs Uhr nachmittags, sagte jemand, dass es nicht möglich sei, als Heide in das neue Land zu gehen, und dann verkündete ich am Abend die Taufe. Das Weinen, Lachen, die Angst und die Freude der Menschen dort vor der Veröffentlichung um Mitternacht waren unglaublich.“

Das gesamte Gespräch kann im Budaörsi-Tagebuch nachgelesen werden!

Ausgewähltes Bild: Erzsébet Eller / Budaörsi Napló

FORRÁS:  https://civilek.info/2023/09/27/az-uristen-tobbszor-is-egy-erdekeset-csavarintott-az-eletemen/ 

Eredeti megjelenés: https://budaorsinaplo.hu/vendegsegben-bekefy-lajosnal-az-uristen-tobbszor-is-egy-erdekeset-csavarintott-az-eletemen/ 


PREACHING PAINTINGS - ABOUT OUR PROTESTANT VISUAL CULTURE

Preaching Paintings - About Our Protestant Visual Culture

Along with our weekly spiritual journeys

Not only books, but also paintings, sculptures, and even all kinds of fine arts have their own history. Art history is based on this. We hear and talk less about the fact that each work has its own message. Many also have a spiritual message. We can also call these preaching paintings. They are not about themselves, but about what the artist created them for. Europe is very rich in preaching images. Let's just listen to the testimony of the very eloquent pictures, despite their silence. First of all, the message of the completely Protestant painting, which is very unique in the history of painting, and truly reforming, which we owe to the elder Lucas Cranach (1472-1553), can be seen as an altarpiece in the Wittenberg city church. It dates from 1547. The master completed it one year after the death of the reformer Márton Luther. A pictorial obituary and memoir at the same time...

PAINTER OF THE REFORMATION - PREACHER WITH A BRUSH

Lucas Cranach the Elder was a respected and famous citizen of Reformation-era Wittenberg. Painter, printer, pharmacist, and for some time even mayor of the Luther town, as a contemporary of the reformer. He was not only the publisher of Luther's Bible, but also an illustrator. He even helped Katharine von Bora on her way to becoming a reformer, as a blessing of which she accepted the difficult fate of being a reformer as a wife and partner with Luther, who took on thousands of spiritual and spiritual struggles and life-threatening situations.

In the paintings of Cranach, the painter of the Reformation, the symbolic message constantly coexists with reality.

The central large picture above of the entire altarpiece depicts the Last Supper with Jesus, Luther and citizens of Wittenberg sitting in the place of the former disciples. The painting on the left shows a large baptismal font with Philip Melanchthon, the educator of Germany, baptizing a baby as a layman. The painting on the right wing of the altar shows the pastor of the church, Luther's successor, Johannes Bugenhagen, exercising the power of the keys: forgiving and absolving the half-kneeling sinner on his right and sending away his accuser.

The most important part of the entire composition, the basis, rock, carrier, and foundation of everything is the crucified Christ and the reformer preaching about him. The axis of the church and the world, even the axis of the cosmos, is with the Crucified Lord. A visionary, virtual, silent sermon about the essential insights of the Reformation: Christ alone, solus Christus, is the axis of existence of everything, the foundation of new life. This Christ is the alpha and omega of preaching, the church community, the Lord's Supper, baptism, absolution and forgiveness in the spiritual and real sense. Also for community rehabilitation after personal repentance and confession.

There are those who put it this way about this group of altarpieces: the essence of the Protestant, Reformation doctrine of the sacrament and doctrine of the Church, soteriology, and the doctrine of salvation is condensed into a pictorial message in Cranach's altarpiece. In contrast to the Roman Catholic altarpieces of the time, the Virgin Mary is nowhere to be seen here, but the contemporaries who, looking to Christ, started and launched the reformation, renewal of faith, and even the renewal of not only the church, but the city, and even the world of the time, and set it on a path that shaped world history.

The human figures in the pictures - citizens of Wittenberg in period clothing, soldiers, pastors, theologians, church members, women and a young mother holding a baby in her lap, perhaps waiting for baptism - do not live their faith with their eyes fixed on the sky, but on Christ, the axis of the church square and the world square, with an extremely attentive look fixed on the Crucified One, the God-Man. Almost absorbing the sight, what they saw and especially what they heard. After all, faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ (Romans 10:17). These people experience that the Kingdom of God is among them. It does not float somewhere above their heads, but is present in the community that half of them observe. This church is a community of love. It has cohesion because it has a center, the living Christ. St. Exupéry wrote in one place in his diary: those who really love each other look in the same direction. Not only lovers, but also religious people. As members of one, many, millions of church communities that have been, are alive today, and will be alive in the future.

YOUR PERSONAL EYE CONTACT WITH THE CONGREGATION - OUR LIFE IS IN THE EMBRACING ARMS OF GOD

We can observe very important Protestant congregational characteristics, especially in the independent image of Christ, which forms the basis of the entire altarpiece structure. Luther, an unforgettable preacher for the city and the congregation, is depicted in the pulpit by the painting giant, who surely respects him from the heart, with the open Bible on the pulpit's rim, Luther's left hand resting on it. And his right hand swings forward, his fingers clearly pointing at the Crucified Lord. He does not look at the Bible or notes while preaching, but at the congregation itself.

Lucas Cranach's winged altar in the Stadtkirche in Wittenberg

(Photo of the painting: Gene Edward Veith)

He seeks the audience's gaze. Eat one at a time. Makes eye contact. Something special and holy circulation takes place during his preaching: he leans on the Word with his left hand, the hand on the side of the heart, and his heart, drawing from it the life-giving message as if from a living source. The Word permeates his whole personality. He gives his heart to the message, the Messenger. Sola Scriptura, Scripture alone is the source of all salvation. This is also depicted in the Cranach composition. Luther's gaze is not directed directly at the One, but at the church members. Even the face of the Crucified One turns towards the congregation.

As if he were saying: I leave everything to you, I give you what I suffered for, what I carried a cross for. Know that I have overcome the world with this cross. All other claims are false and misleading, the tricks of the great Liar, the Scammer. I conquered the world in front of you, for you, for you, in which you are still struggling, looking for the only and sure support. Here I am: I am the way, the truth and the life (John 14,6). Brilliant composition. A great sermon - true through the ages!

And something else. An invisible circle of heavenly-earthly embrace emerges before our examining eyes, which also depicts the meaning of the earthly service of the mother-holy-church. Namely: Luther's hand on the Bible, his outstretched arm pointing to Christ, and the shepherd, spiritual caretaker, life counselor who keeps an eye on the people, the real, living church, and looks after them, almost embraces the living Christ in the hearts of the church members. He, Who is no longer the one who looks at the community from this picturesque Cranach cross, since this cross is not really present in the church square. But the Christ who was taken down from the cross, resurrected on the third day, defeated the world and will remain with us until the end of the world is present. What a huge, heart-shepherding, eternal and limitless community is the Mother Church, for which He gave His life and, as the Risen One, carries us today as a living Lord, He is with us, embraces us, nourishes us spiritually and physically, He takes care of us.

This living, eternal community is also indicated by his preaching painting by the great elder Cranach, whose pulpit became the altarpiece in Wittenberg with many messages. Protestant, with its symbolic and real messages. Blessed be God, who invented and used such sights and painting pulpits to proclaim His Word, for the benefit of our lives. In the digital world, very realistically. Because we have a real, living, not virtual Christ!

Author: Dr. Lajos Békefy

Cover photo: Lucas Cranach's winged altar in the Stadtkirche in Wittenberg (Photo: Gene Edward Veith)

 Elérhető: https://civilek.info/en/2023/09/26/preaching-paintings-about-our-protestant-visual-culture/ 

Forrás: https://felvidek.ma/2023/09/predikalo-festmenyek-protestans-vizualis-kulturankrol/

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Biserica și școala: Conferință prezbiteriană și deschiderea noului an școlar


Asociația Prezbiteriană a Protopopiatului Bisericii Reformate Braşov a organizat conferința sa anuală într-un sfârşit de săptămână însorită de septembrie (09.09). Gazda conferinţei a fost Parohia reformată din centrul orașului. Preotul paroh Géza Kassay, în cadrul slujbei de deschidere, și-a „țesut” gândurile în jurul următoarelor rânduri din prima carte a lui Samuel: De ce nu auzim cuvântul lui Dumnezeu? – din cauza întoarcerii noastre de la Dumnezeu, din cauza păcatelor și a răutății noastre, Domnul nu are nicio revelație pentru noi – pentru că nu a fost nimeni care să ne învețe că Dumnezeu ne poate vorbi şi personal. Ca preoți și pastori, trebuie să fim auziți și înțeleși pentru Isus, și trebuie să vorbim despre Isus, a subliniat pastorul.

După deschiderea strict religioasă a reuniunii, pastorul-gazdă a salutat participanții la conferință și a prezentat pe scurt istoria Parohiei reformate din centrul orașului. În continuare au rostit cuvinte de salut președintele Asociației Brașov, Vince Ferenc Vass, părintele protopop Csaba Miklósi, József Pályi, președintele Asociației Prezbiteriene a Bisericii Reformate din Ardeal și vicepreședintele Asociației Prezbiteriene Brașov, Éva Nagy, care a transmis și mesajele de salut ale domnului Csaba Török membru în conducerea Asociaţiei Prezbiteriene din Ungaria și Gábor Erdei, reprezentant al Asociației din județul Békés, Ungaria.

Oratorul principal al conferinței a fost pastorul reformat dr. Lajos Békefy din Ungaria care a fost distins recent cu „Crucea de cavaler a Ordinului de Merit al Ungariei” de către preşedintele ungar, Katalin Novák, cu ocazia sărbătorii naționale a Sfântului Ștefan, din luna august, în semn de recunoaștere a activității sale publicistice și jurnalistice importante,  precum și a activității sale de capelan de închisoare și de pastor mediatic.

„Domnule Békefy, vă rog să-mi permiteți să vă felicit cu respect în numele participanților la conferință, al eparhiei noastre și al Asociației Prezbiteriene. Vă dorim în continuare activitate rodnică și mult succes, spre slava lui Dumnezeu. Vă mulțumim că ați acceptat invitația noastră”, a spus vicepreședintele, în încheierea gândurilor sale festive de laudă a invitatului.

Prezentarea foarte actuală intitulată „Accentele importante ale creștinismului reformat în era digitală”, ilustrată cu imagini proiectate în multe locuri și uneori „împânzite” de public cu psalmi vii, a abordat şi a transmis subiectul participanţilor conferinţei dintr-o perspectivă neobișnuită. Iată câteva cuvinte cheie din cele spuse: Trebuie să ascultăm de Dumnezeu mai degrabă decât de oameni – Faptele 5:9 Credință și continuitate a valorilor, Biblie – rugăciune – rugăciunea congregaţiei (pentru prezbiteri), ai trei minute pe zi pentru Dumnezeu, pentru propria ta viață spirituală? A treia epocă mondială a bisericii, epoca Duhului Sfânt. Capitalismul și etica protestantă – Institutul Calvin – Iisus Hristos.

După prezentarea detaliată, preotul-invitat nostru le-a oferit conducătorilor bisericești/prezbiterieni cărți din creație proprie, iar președintele eparhial i-a dăruit invitatului nostru un tablou cu Biserica reformată din centrul Brașovului, ca suvenir. După aceea, a avut loc o conversație informală și pauză apoi o vizită la Casa de rugăciuni a parohiei, unde oaspeții au fost aştepaţi cu un prânz delicios, iar înainte de a lua masa preotul dr. Lajos Békefy a ţinut o devoţiune, bazată pe următorul text biblic: Rugăciunea lui Iov pentru păcatele viitoare ale copiilor săi; Accesibilitatea spirituală multigenerațională – misiunea și sarcina spirituală de protecție a viitorului de către părinți, bunici -, rugăciuni individuale, comunitare, prevenirea criminalității, rugăciune de mijlocire pentru viitor. (Iov 1.5).

La finalul evenimentului, organizatorii le-au mulțumit participanților pentru prezență, apoi ne-am luat rămas bun cu fețe zâmbitoare în speranța revederii.

Duminică dimineață, respectiv după-amiază l-am însoţit pe preotul din Budapesta, la Biserica Reformată II din Bucureşti și la Casa de rugăciuni din orașul Ploiești, unde a propovăduit Cuvântul lui Dumnezeu în cadrul slujbelor festive, după care a stat de vorbă cu enoriașii prezenţi. Vă mulțumim pentru primirea călduroasă a congregațiilor și a familiilor pastorilor din toate cele trei oraşe.

Cu prilejul începerii noului an şcolar, dr. Lajos Békefy a rostit un salut inspirându-se din versete biblice la deschiderea noului an şcolar la Liceul Teoretic Ady Endre din Bucureşti, din care citez:

Legătura Budapesta-București: dezvoltarea după modelul lui Isus în acest an școlar 2023-24 în înțelepciune, cunoaștere, bunuri fizice și spirituale, în bunătate şi pace faţă de Dumnezeu și  oameni. Copii sunt crescuți pentru viitor, biserica și școala este grădina de legume a viitorului – dar pentru aceasta este nevoie și de Iisus, care este Iosua, Mântuitorul de tot răul care poate otrăvi relațiile dintre oameni – să avem timp personal unii pentru alții: pentru colegii de clasă, părinți, biserică, națiune, sunt suficiente câteva minute, câteva cuvinte personale, întoarcere către altul, îmbrățișare. – În acest spirit să creștem! Acest lucru ne ridică viața pe pământ, anii noștri de școală, unii pe alții și pe noi înșine! Binecuvântări și pace, slavă lui Dumnezeu, vouă la Brașov, București şi la Ploiești. Mulțumesc din suflet pentru că am fost împreună și o îmbrățișare fraternă din inimă – acestea au fost cuvintele încurajatoare ale pastorului invitat la școala maghiară din capitală.

Soli Deo Gloria!

dr. Éva Nagy,

vicepreşedinte al Asociaţiei Prezbiteriene a Protopopiatului Bisericii Reformate din Braşov

Forrás: https://hatarok-nelkul.com/ro/?p=7079&fbclid=IwAR2ezfhG8Z34cktMGXwb4q7oHVwuMNFH7x5PuITI3Fz1VjElPQvWsL0eJlI 

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 Lord, our song of praise, our prayer to You resounds through the spheres!

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Lord, our song of praise, our prayer to You resounds through the spheres!

 



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There are moments in passing time that raise our gaze above the passage of time. Beyond the visible, and our imagination circulates in the worship of God inspired by the Holy Spirit, so that in a kind of sacred cosmic exodus, our words leave the confines of personal existence. The multi-stringed strings of the worship of God and the royal tones of the organs, the deep and high-sounding chords of the brass go very far.

Up to the invisible heights and on the opaque slopes of the hearts to the memory valleys of millennia. Down there, in the personal depths and in the dazzling enchantment of the above, the outside and the inside, the gratitude of the created man and the incomposably perfect oratorio of life are heard. The perfect harmony of hearts, shapes, seas and mountains, forests and thousand-faced desert seconds. The cantatas and symphonies of created existence and individually lived existence, which a hundred Bach and Beethoven, Mozart and Dvořák, Liszt and Chopin could only have composed for the benefit of the cosmic temple, focusing their melodic world at the same time. By making the impossible possible. And if anyone thinks that I am writing about the impossibilities in this strange, ecstatic introduction, I will just quote a great thinker:

“If someone does not believe in the possibility of miracles, he is not a realist”.

And the Chinese folk saying also confirms this, which echoes in the inner soul temple of hundreds of millions: “A believing person has more joy in his heart seeing miracles in one minute than a person without faith has in a lifetime.”

Next Sunday, we will receive the 15th Lord’s Day after the Holy Trinity as a gift, hopefully from the Risen One. Since there are several reasons why the majestic prayer and musical melodies of God’s greeting are resounding in the churches of souls and in our inner concert halls, now we join in this great worship with our meditation. With some pieces of spiritual lyrical prose and music. With the spaciousness of creation, overcoming all kinds of sectarian and religious, mostly meaningless walls erected by people. With pneumatic space. With the Holy Spirit’s world-view and at the same time heart-level guidance.

Happy 5784th New Year to the fleshly people of Jesus!

Those who love Jesus, Yehoshua, and confess the Savior as their personal Saviour, can look upon the people of Israel with a heart of blessing. Despite all the historical, absurd, self-contradictory, historical stigmas that even accuse them of “murdering God”.

And in spite of all the mundane hatred hurled like a wreath of thistles on the road and by the roadside. Jesus took me up to heaven by raising his hand in blessing (Luke 24:50), warning all people until the end of time that self-denial and forgiveness can and should only be related to the chosen people of the Father, the Eternal. In this, as Christians, we cannot be uncertain, hesitant, with tactics a little this way or a little that way. On the contrary:

With a spirit raised in Christ, we also ask for a blessing for the people of the Old Testament today, at home and throughout the diaspora.

Somehow, as I read in the New Year’s greeting I received today from my Reformed brother Ákos Ravasz, the former church warden of the Munich Reformed: I wish my friends a peaceful, joyful, sweet New Year and a good entry and sealing in the book of life in the year 5784 in the hope of a good, common future! To sled to umetuk! Lösono tajvó tikosévu ve-téchassému! Gmar hatima tova!

The evening and night before us will be filled with prayers reaching up to our Father through the spheres, and in this cosmic melodic outpouring there will be the green-eyed miracle,

Also Barbra Streisand’s beautiful vocals: Avinu Malkeinu.

In addition to all of this, philosopher and Jewish theologian Abraham Joshua Heschel’s thought process about prayer should also be considered: “Prayer is an answer to God. In it, we attribute to God what is most precious and beautiful in our lives. In prayer, we pour out our hearts before God and open ourselves to Him, waiting for His Word with every fiber of our being. We reach the deepest depth of prayer when, overcoming our usual joys and the shadow of our deep sorrows, we find a real home, a home that forgets everything, with God, only with Him and in His mercy”. This approach to prayer and prayer practice connects the descendants of Abraham with the redeemed people of Jesus – also in 5784!

Our Christian prayer and song to Jesus and the Father resounds through the spheres

Last weekend I was able to serve in Hungarian Reformed churches in Brasov, Bucharest and Ploiesti. The high mountain in Brasov, the Poiana, could only faintly perceive and depict the soaring thanksgiving of the singing congregation. I almost lifted myself up on wings, and the resounding song of the good brothers literally flew me up over the high rocks, up into the land of eternal brilliance. But not just me, because the song of the church community sang the whole army of the congregation of faithful brothers and sisters living on the cultural and linguistic border, to such unearthly heights where our loving God can hear the singing on earth. This poetic complaint was both confirmed and refuted:

Raise up, speak, see, live,
I can’t talk down here in the dust.

Indeed, you can only suffocate in the dust. But if the faith, prayer, and song of a community lift you up and encourage you to speak, see, and live, then the request will be true:

So lift me up to the core.
I will rent a pulpit from among many,
Let me up your stairs, please

– and then not only for Karinthy, but for every soul, there will be a holiday, glad tidings, songs, psalms above the dust. When a person turns completely to God. This is what I felt from the gymnasium in the beautified Reformed church in Brasov, built into an elegant house of God, and in the city church in Bucharest, and in the lovely prayer house in Ploiesti. Everywhere, with the clear singing voice and prayers of such Hungarian Calvinist souls, with the faith and hope that survived difficult historical days, they lived on receiving truly life-giving forces. Among them, I was reminded of the great composition of the modern, contemporary Hungarian prayer work, Balázs Havasi, which I am asking the Dear Reader to listen to here as well.

Rejoicing in the “change of color” of the created world slowly refreshed by chlorophyll, resplendent in a thousand colors with the passing of the forest’s summer silences, heart-wrenchingly saying goodbye, seeing and feeling the Eternal in the changes, on this especially holiday weekend, the hearts of hundreds of millions rise to God. A good 15 million descendants of Abraham and at least 2.5 billion were blessed by Jesus as a Christian army. In the singing, melodious elevation, the historical prayers and individual requests will be heard softly in our hearts. His prayers are hopeful and hopeful, despite all the spoiling of the holidays of our days with blood and death, earthquakes and sea surges, and forest fires. As a first and last resort.

The prayer of the German evangelical song composer and social worker, Eugen Eckert, who is alive today, is a spiritual gateway to the words of the Swiss Reformed poet, writer, philosopher, theologian, Johann Caspar Lavater (1741-1801), polished to crystal clear by the Holy Spirit and still timely over centuries.

“I’m standing here empty-handed, afraid of seeing so many things. Stay with me in difficult days, Lord, help me to sing again and again: About you, who are the Rock. About you, who are my Protector. About you, who are my Rock Fortress and my Strength”.

– And the refrain of the Spirit can also be heard for centuries: “Give everyone, Lord, what they really need!” Have mercy on the poor and the abandoned, send helpers and comforters to them. Have mercy on the sick, ease their pain, fill their hearts with healing hope. Bless those who work. Bless those who today glimpse the light of life for the first time, and those in whose eyes the earthly light goes out forever. Have mercy on us all! Amen”.

Dr. Lajos Békefy/Felvidék.ma

https://felvidek.ma/2023/09/uram-szferakon-at-zeng-magasztalo-enekunk-imank-hozzad/
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