At a time erstwhile the applause finds highly nationalistic views, present 1 must look for specified ways of loving the homeland, so as not to exclude from this love people with whom we disagree," said Bishop Damian Muskus in Klicuszowa. The Krakow Auxiliary Bishop presided over indulgences in St. Martin's parish there.
In the homily, Bishop Muskus stressed that it is good that the love of the homeland is crucial to most believers. "However, we inactive gotta ask what is more important: national membership, traditions and culture or the surviving Gospel and the another man in whom God lives?" he said.
– At a time erstwhile applause finds highly nationalistic views, specified a question must be raised. We request to look for ways to love our homeland today, so as not to exclude from this love groups and people with whom we disagree, who live differently and anticipate a different Poland than the 1 we want to build – added the Kraków Auxiliary Bishop.
As he stated, the size of the homeland "will not be built by fighting and constantly dividing society, dividing people into ours and strangers." – The size of a homeland is built with a persistent search for good, a desire to live in a community where there is simply a place for anyone who in his life is guided by eternal and universal values. – he noted.
Referring to the Gospel of judgement and the image of separating sheep from goats, Bishop Muskus noted that the criterion in which God calls any blessed and others cursed is very simple. – It is mercy, it is our attitude toward the weakest and the needy, to the hungry and the thirsty, to the mediocre and the sick, the prisoners and the refugees. The judgement concerns all nations, and so not only believers. Good will be rewarded no substance who does it. Evil will be condemned even if it is done by the most godly Christians – he said.
He besides emphasized that Jesus does not look at those in request in terms of their national or spiritual affiliation, “he does not ask for their organization affiliation or their faithfulness to the commandments.” – He doesn't have their ID checked to give them a part of bread. He does not require a baptism certificate to give a home over his head – he said.
– Blessed are those who respond with love to this poverty, who bring hope and comfort to those who cry, but besides with the same love fulfil the obligations of life, responsiblely treat their vocation, place in the planet and society. Jesus does not describe them according to state or spiritual criteria. Mercy is democratic and everyone has the right to it – he added.
He encouraged us to celebrate the national festival of independency – the won, regained, revived years later in captivity – to ask what independency is. At the same time, he emphasized that actual independency is built in the freedom of the heart.
– You can't force anyone to love their homeland, you can't force anyone to do the Gospel and live according to its teachings. The paradox of freedom is that thanks to it we can love and choose wisely, but besides due to the fact that freedom happens in our country and in our communities things that we disagree with that hurt us or upset us said the clergyman.
According to Bishop Muskus, it is not adequate to declare that Jesus is Lord of Polish past to make the reality in which we live more evangelical. – Do believers in Poland truly effort to build a better world, open the doors of the Church to everyone, fulfil their duties in the spirit of service: to service water to the thirsty, to feed the hungry, to comfort the despairing? Is it so apparent and common? He was wondering.
As he emphasized, mature love is born and shaped in freedom and all day elections. – If I love Christ, I want to make choices according to the Gospel. But the planet is galloping forward, our Homeland is changing, the Church is changing. We face challenges to which no 1 has prepared us, and we cannot always cope with the burden of work for Poland, in which we all live and in which they have the right to accommodate all – and those on the right, and those on the left, and believers in Christ, and those who have not received the grace of faith, and even those who preach that the Church is unnecessary – explained.
– Freedom is that everyone, no substance what he looks like, what he thinks, how he feels, has the right to live next to us. Freedom is about being faithful to conscience and being blessed to others, especially to those who are ill. For those who are well, who have power, enjoy prestige, will always have a host of friends and flatterers around them. said the Kraków Auxiliary Bishop.
Finally, Bishop Muskus encouraged us to pray for the wisdom of utilizing the hard gift of freedom and for the Homeland to be an open and safe place for all.
Source: KAI
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