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Many of you know that when someone is sick, we often have to encourage them to eat and drink more fluids. The ill person is fighting back; he doesn’t want to, yet you don’t give up. Talk to the sick person, encourage him… And at the same time, no one objects or says, Why don’t you respect the free will of a sick person!? The patient needs to be helped. All the more so when we feel something more towards the ill person, love, friendship, and seeing him as a child of God.

The Lord Jesus comes to a sick world marked by original sin and personal sins of people. He comes as our brother to help us understand the command of love in our lives. We should remember “which commandment in the Law is the greatest” (Mt 22:34). When a man sinned, he became ill. However, even then, God did not stop loving people. He sends prophets, leaders, and teachers to his people, who inform and teach the people the commands of God. It happened that there were 613 commands. They began to divide these into big and small. And also into “commandments,” which were 365, like the days of the year, and “prohibitions,” which were 248, according to the time understanding as much as there are limbs or parts in the human body. There was still a rich commentary on these commands. The question arose from this, with which they also came to Jesus: “Teacher,

They ask Jesus about the “greatest” commandment. Jesus repeatedly fought with the teachers, Pharisees, and scribes. It was not only in the case of whether it is permissible to heal on the Sabbath but also whether it is permissible to do so on the Sabbath, like the apostles who passed through the grain field on the Sabbath and ate grains of grain. On these and other occasions, Jesus emphasized at least his freedom by relegating the other commandments to the commandment of love. Therefore, the pressing question became where to look for the measure and what is the “chief commandment” to which all others must submit. Those who come with the question to “tempt” him know very well that the first command is the command to love God, and they also know it because God often pointed to the command to love one’s neighbor. We must not be surprised that there were also what in the labyrinth of many orders they did not know. The answer of Jesus in the Gospel is nothing new, which would be unknown to His adversaries.

Let us pray for ourselves, for Christians, and all people so that we can always open ourselves to the command of love. Just as you, Jesus, our God, Savior, and Redeemer, taught us to love in word and deed, we also want to help each other because we are all marked by sickness and sin against love for God and neighbor as well as ourselves. 

His wretchedness has become his greatest gift – for as a wretch, he is allowed to be gifted by God. It is the brokenness of Peck’s emptiness – only it is not the fruit of the agony of struggle but of surrender to God’s love and tender greatness. And it is not temporary, but permanent, forever. It’s being carried to the extreme with God’s giving of himself in Heaven. This wretchedness, accepted in Christ without despair, is, with Christ’s grace, the foundation of the freedom of God’s children and the uprightness and truthfulness of everything. It is the foundation for the sonship of God and the communion of the Church.
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It is not that the Catholic Church owns the truth. It is just the opposite; fact holds the Church. How else? It is, after all, the Body of Him who is Truth, the Way, and the Life!
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Adoration and intercessory prayer belong together so much that they are one. To intercede for others in profound union with Christ and to bring them to Him, before His Face, into His Nearness. Both are one.
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Asceticism is possible when our heart already lives elsewhere, higher, above the lusts and desires of the flesh – and the meat is already, like that rebellious donkey, only pulling by the harness where the soul, the heart, already dwells in joy and freedom.
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Disposition means that we desire the sacrament to do in us precisely what it does in us to make it come. The Eucharist is there to unite us entirely to Christ so that we are transformed into Christ and become Christ, with all consequences. Disposition to Holy Communion means to desire and long for this transformation, to cease to be oneself and to become wholly and in all Christ.
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“For when there is jealousy and strife among you, you are not carnal and do not live after humanly? When one says: “I am Paul’s,” and the other, “I am Apollos’,” does not are ye not men?” (1 Cor. 3:3-4) Paul accuses the Corinthians of still being human. And who should they be if not human? Well, angels! According to the words of Christ: “Those who are counted worthy of that age and the resurrection are no longer living, nor marry. Neither can they die anymore; for they are as angels, and are God’s sons.” (Luke 20:35-36) Christianity is about becoming angels and teaching us to live the life of an angel because that is what we live in Heaven, and therefore, we crave it. We long for it: ‘For we know that when this tabernacle – our earthly house – falls apart, we have from God a dwelling not made with hands but an eternal house in heaven. For in this, we groan and long to put on our heavenly dwelling.” (2 Cor. 5,1-2)
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Becoming Christ is not about what I have to leave and forsake. It’s about it’s about, oh, a whole new, huge, unique, extraordinary world that I can dive into! How exciting! Honestly, I expect nothing but great things! The awe of God is born not only from beholding God’s greatness but also…from the consciousness of one’s guilt and sinfulness. It is also carried out by looking at what and who God is. Until then, we thought we were good, capable, friendly, excellent…
Suddenly, we see God – and in Him a glimpse of what we were meant to be before sin in God we were. And suddenly, we are flooded with pain, sorrow, and shame that we are wrong, crippled, ugly in comparison, and extremely ragged and miserable.
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It’s like a sick person with us. Until a man realizes he is well, we can do nothing to make him well. And when he finally admits he’s sick, we don’t tell him: “Hey, you are sick, very sick, you are sick!” but take him by the hand and say, “Don’t worry! We will cure you, and you will do more and great things!” This is how God deals with sinners: “When Simon Peter saw it, he fell at Jesus’ feet and said: “Lord, depart from me, For I am a sinful man.” For terror seized him and all who were with him at the catch of fish which they had taken. So also of the sons of Zebedee James and John, who were Simon’s companions. Here Jesus said to Simon: “Do not be afraid; from now on, you will no longer catch men.”  And when they drew the ships to the shore, they left everything and followed him.” (Luke 5:8-11)
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The consciousness of sinfulness that accompanies even the saints springs from, among other things, this: that although we are righteous and good people, indeed perfect people, we are still only human. Our goodness, our righteousness, our perfection is human. God is totally different, totally different, intrinsically different from us. Even when we outwardly imitate Him, we only imitate what He is. And this difference is the essence of sinfulness, which can only be removed by a new creation, a new birth; no law or rules are not enough. Therefore, no one will ever be saved by works of the Law. That is why Jesus says of the righteous people of his day: “If your righteousness will not be greater than the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven” (Matt. 5:20).
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How is this possible: “Many will say to me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, are we prophesied in thy name? Have we not cast out evil spirits in your name and wrought many miracles in thy name?” Then I will declare to them: Never I never knew you; depart from me, ye that work iniquity” (Matt. 7:22-23). We have received gifts from God – beauty, strength, intelligence, talents, abilities, and in time, status, influence, power, and possessions. And when we believe, we add charisma and other gifts as well. But basically, it is still the same thing: Whether we enjoy
gifts for Him and in service to Him and out of love for Him, or whether we will cling to the facilities
themselves and not put them before God. Similarly, in experience.
We experience joy, contentment, and success. When we believe, we add inner consolation, the experience of the Kingdom, the mysticism… But again, it’s about what is more precious, whether we hold these experiences dearer before God or God before them. That’s why mystics and saints have said not to fixate on these experiences, not even to not pay much attention to them, not to long for them, but to cling to God. It is similar to the gifts and abilities, including charisms (one of them).
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Usually, we are afraid to depend on God and God alone. But when it comes down to it, when we experience our weakness and see that God is the only one who holds it together – he is. Strangely enough, it feels immensely relieving, lovely, accessible, and beautiful… It’s probably like this: “I have lifted a burden from his shoulders and a heavy basket from his hands.” (Ž 81,7)
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During adoration, I sometimes feel like just being silent before the Lord, letting myself be filled by Him. The Rosary, the Jesus Prayer… seems to me rather like a disturbance of this beautiful silence, of the experience of God. But that is why we can do the opposite: to renounce lying down in the presence of God and instead take up the chotki, to take the rosary and offer a sacrifice to God. An offering of praise, an offering of intercession. Not for but for the salvation of the world, for God Himself. It is something of the rule of the saints and mystics who also said: do not follow spiritual experiences and consolations, don’t cling to them, don’t long for them, don’t even pay much attention – notice God, cling to Him, follow Him!
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Fasting is the power of prayer.
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Christianity means to burst into life.
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It is so that the deeper we go into Heaven, the holier we become. We become. Heaven transforms us – and we are transformed by the same
by the very act of entering it. It’s not that you’ll be in Heaven if you’re holy. It’s that if you’re in heaven, you’re a saint.
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Indulgences that God’s healing grace is, on the one hand, on the other hand, a person who desires to receive it and expresses it by humbly accepting the way God presents it to him in the Church. By taking the form, he confirms his humility and obedience as a sinner and a Christian and his desire for healing and love for Christ by the act itself. An excellent example of indulgences in the N.T. is the story of Naaman (quite exemplary) and, in the NT, the level of Zacchaeus. Or even Jesus.’ words, make friends out of sinful mammon… Even there, the principle well rings true.
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To pray the rosary is to be allowed to approach Christ through Mary’s maternal heart and to love Him and to adore Him with the love of Mary, over and above which there is no other in this world. Mary’s relationship with Christ is unique and blissful, and she leads into this intimate relationship.
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It is not about what “function” Mary and the saints have in our lives and salvation. That would be a very selfish view. They are in Christ, the communion of saints, the connection of the blessed; they are already fully living in Heaven. To enter Heaven is to join them, to become part of their lucky community.

False humility is an obstacle to spiritual growth. On the other hand, having real courage to prove something in spiritual life is also necessary. It is inappropriate for a believing Christian to state that I am only sinful and weak. I cannot live for a long time without sin. I can’t control myself, control myself, etc. In such a case, the Christian himself puts even more obstacles in his spiritual growth and in advancing for Christ.

Saint Bartholomew offers us help in this area. John calls him Nathanael. Philip met him and told him: “We have found the one about whom Moses wrote in the Law and the prophets, Jesus, the son of Joseph in Nazareth.” Nathanael said to him: “Can anything good come from Nazareth?!” Philip answered, “Come and see!” (Jn 1,45-46).

Nathanael was impressed by Philip’s invitation. Jesus did the rest. It sounds enjoyable. At the same time, we imagine ourselves in that situation. Yes, it concerns us, too. Jesus has different ways to attract other disciples to himself. He uses people who have already met him as a tool. That’s it. During the meeting, Jesus also said to Philip: “Follow me!” (Jn 1:43). Philip has such a wonderful experience as Ondrej with Ján. After all, when he meets his brother Simon, Ondrej also cannot keep it to himself and brings it to Jesus’ brother Simon. Jesus changed his name to Peter. Even Nathanael is so powerfully addressed at the first meeting that he cannot forget this meeting until his death. He knew the prophets and the Messiah would come, but he did not know that Jesus had already come from insignificant Nazareth to address the world.
The first words that Jesus speaks to Nathanael are actual. “This is a true Israelite in whom there is no guile” (Jn 1:47). Nathanael is an orthodox, sincere-minded, and believing Jew waiting for the Messiah. Even though he knows that what Jesus says about him is true, he is still curious, and that is why he asks: “How do you know me?” (John 1:48). Jesus describes to him the situation that happened shortly before when they were arguing about Jesus in a quiet conversation with Philip. No one saw or heard them. And Nathanael believed that this man before whom he was standing was the Messiah, which he also expressed with the words: “Rabbi, you are the Son of God, you are the king of Israel!” (Jn 1:49). For this, Nathanael received a particular lesson: “You will see greater things than these” (John 1:50). And not only Nathanael remembers this meeting, but also John the Apostle in the Gospel.

Nathanael underestimated Philip’s report. But it was true humility. Today, the Church gives us more than Philip gave to Natanael then. Today, we have a two-thousand-year-long tradition. And in the same way, many people doubt and underestimate themselves today. And so it is appropriate for us to do what Nathanael did in the words of Philip: “Come and see!” (Jn 1:46). Put aside speculation, your weaknesses, personal and bad experiences with your life and try again; go for With Jesus and with Jesus. Away with underestimating yourself! Saint Augustine was in a similar situation today and said: – If so-and-so could do it, why couldn’t I? – And today? We have Saint Augustine, not a sinner Manichean.
It is necessary to decide again. It is up to us to help each other. Each of us should be Philip, who did not keep the experience of the encounter to himself and called others to Jesus. It is the same for us today. Let’s name, address and convince! However, not only with verbal arguments but with your life – others and others following Jesus. “Verba movent, exempla trahunt” – “Words move, but examples attract!” Let’s not forget the couple: Filip and Natanael.

Natanael was philosophically minded. Thoughtful, but also open and educated. We know Natanael under the name Bartholomew. After Jesus’ ascension, he went to India and later to Armenia, where he died under King Astyages, who tortured him for converting King Polymers. According to tradition, he was flayed alive and crucified upside down.

Among the apostles, his statue appears most often in our churches. He is considered a patron; when other saints cannot help, he will help.

And for us, it is a beautiful appeal. When we have already broken the stick on ourselves many times, they concluded that we would not be better; let’s look at Bartholomew today and follow Jesus again. He sees, hears, and knows our difficulties, obstacles, and defeats, yet he waits for us. Let’s decide to go after him again. Meeting him was a wonderful experience for us.

Today it is appropriate when we say to ourselves: Stop underestimating yourself! Jesus does not reject any of us. Everyone dear to him starts repeatedly, not seven, but seventy-seven times. It’s hard to start over, but it’s saving for us. No one will give us greater strength at this moment than Jesus himself. Through the mouth of Philip, he also says to us: “Come and you will see!” (Jn 1:46). We have already convinced ourselves of the truth of these words many times, and today, we gratefully accept them again. Yes, I want. Yes, I am going. We realize that Jesus likes our humility. We are aware of our sinfulness, but we believe even more in Jesus’ love, mercy, and forgiveness. So we want to use today, encouraged by the behavior of Saint Nathanael-Bartholomew, to follow Jesus again. Even though we are nothing in the eyes of the world, in the eyes of Jesus, we mean a lot. After all, Jesus died for our sins. Jesus wants to save our souls, too. Jesus also prepared a place for us with the Father in his kingdom. And that’s why in the silence after Holy Communion, when we welcome Jesus into our hearts, we say again: We want to follow you and with you, Jesus. Jesus will gladly accept our plans and resolutions, done in humility and with love.

When Jesus trusts us, shouldn’t we do everything to make him happy? Today, we want to start again, and we want to help others.

Accurate concentration in prayer is in which we are with prayer and ourselves. Prayer is completely inwardly identified, prayer expresses our state and attitude, and the act of praying expresses and mirrors our life.
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A personal relationship with Jesus? Well, that’s not it when we say what he has given us, how he healed us, what he did for us, and how he saved us. That’s… Familiarity. An acquaintance like the people of the crowds had with Jesus. But still needs to be a discipleship relationship. The relationship is what Paul writes about, “If we are children, we are heirs also: heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ; indeed, if we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified.” (Rom 8:17)
This is also the answer to the disturbing question behind Jesus’ statement, “When the householder gets up and closes the door, and you stay outside, you begin to knock at the door and call out: “Lord, open to us!” And he will say to you: “I don’t know where you’re from!” Then you start talking: “We have eaten and drunk with you, as You taught in our streets.” But he will tell you: “I do not know where you are from; go away from me, all you who practice iniquity” (Lk 13:25-27).
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The community of the Church is born out of that overwhelming ease that man experiences when, through faith, he has been freed and redeemed from this world because he has received a new citizenship, a new residence, a new home in heaven, in the Family of God. At that moment, all those worldly (and earthly) things which until then were so deadly vital that we had fought and quarreled and torn unity and brought strife for their sake and division mean nothing anymore. Suddenly they are entirely incidental, episodic. With a light and cheerful “So what?” we throw them on our backs, and suddenly, love
and sharing is natural, and the barriers between us are suddenly gone.
This feeling, this realization, this experience of this lightness and liberation, is critical. It is an analogy of its substitute, the sense of agony and breaking in Peck’s model of the creation of community. As a response to evangelization, as a fruit of believing and conversion, it must be truly and genuinely experienced by everyone. Then comes hope, a view of life in this world as training where we do not struggle with things, people, and situations, but we accept them and vice versa
we use them in faith in God’s providence, intelligently, creatively, and with a specific dose of positive excitement – it’s exciting.
Finally, love comes when we begin to appreciate what God is – holiness, perfection, sheer goodness, beauty, truthfulness, love, unity,… – and so we love God for God’s sake. We also love and enjoy ourselves constantly greater and greater resemblance to God, and we long to have more and more of it. Faith relaxes apathy, carelessness, and freedom from lust and fear. Hope grows openness to the new and unexpected, freedom from prejudice, expectation, patent reason and truth, and the desire to have things under control, but to unite and consummate all things in Christ and according to Christ. Love ultimately produces the will to grow in oneself to perfection and to divide in others to share and share what I am and live with others.
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At the beginning of the journey, fasting is a sacrifice and a denial for us when we are still in the world and not in the Kingdom. It is both an instrument of our purification and an expression of love for Christ. Later, when the world no longer speaks to us, the Kingdom is our home, and poverty and fasting are a gift and a relief to us; God must bring in another form of fasting and sacrifice so that our love may grow upon it to the perfection of selflessness – and that is that night of the soul, of the crisis, when God seems to hide from us. We must fast from the Lord Himself and His Light to learn to love even in the darkness, free, as God does.
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Christianity is simply love. Love of God. Marriage to God. That is the
Circumvent table, the fundamental thing at the very heart of it. Everything else is or starting point (our freedom, reason, and will) or the fruit of that love (apartheid, carelessness, relaxation,…) – but the essence and the very center is love, “an act of the will, a decision to give one’s whole life to the life of another” (cf. E. Fromm) – in this case, God. It means (as psychologist Robin Skynner would say) that the other we do not need. We can and can live without it. Even without God? Sure.
Look around at how many people live without God! Although from our point of view miserable and pretty much useless, they live. They can. Notable. God made us so that we can practically live without Him. We are truly free! God doesn’t need us, and we can live without Him. That is the basis for love!
Love means that God, though He doesn’t need us, freely shares with us what He is, what He has, and what He lives. He doesn’t have to. But He does – because He wants to. And he can do so precisely because all He is truly belongs to Him. Therefore, it can be in love to give it. He could not provide what did not belong to Him. In the same way, we can love God – by giving in equal measure, we choose to give to God, to share with Him our life, which is ours, it is ours, we can do with it as we wish – and that is why we can truly love it, to honestly give it to God in the form of service, sacrifice, communion with God. The result is a unity based on love that does not destroy freedom or enslave us but binds us to each other as free and independent persons – us and God. This is Heaven. And when we decide like this to give ourselves to God, Christianity, the life of the Bride and the Bridegroom, begins.
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Years ago, a foreign company started building a hotel in our country. It promised high earnings. Many people changed jobs and came to work on the construction site to earn a lot of money. At the first paycheck, there was disillusionment. True, many made their disapproval known, and not just in words. They went to complain. They gathered all the dissatisfied people in one room. The name-calling and discontent ceased when they were shown a film the company’s agents had shot as they worked. Getting to work, brunch, lunch, standing around… In the end, it ended up like today’s Gospel.

The farmer tells the grumblers: “Friend, I don’t blame you. Didn’t you make a deal with me for a penny? Take what is yours and go” (Mt 20:13-14). The fourth truth of our six cardinal facts states: “God is a righteous Judge who rewards the good and punishes the wicked.” The attributes of God include not only justice but also love and mercy. At times God breaks the plane of purely arithmetical justice and admonishes. The Lord Jesus says: “Except your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven” (Matt. 5:20). It is not against the righteousness of God when we hear in the parable the command of the householder to his steward: “Pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first” (v.8). The parable shows how God’s goodness turns against the claim of rewarding those who were first. Jesus rejects reward in the sense of legal entitlement. He wants to emphasize that the “first” have no priority over the “last.” Jesus emphasizes the goodness of God. All earthly thinking is unable to comprehend the words of the Lord Jesus. And yet Jesus wants to help us, to get out of righteousness as the world and God understand it. In doing so, the principle that God will not leave any man’s service unrewarded is an unshakably firm principle for Him.

Perhaps you, too, have heard it, uttered it, or at least thought it: “Happily there is one righteousness – a God who knows no connections, no favoritism, who will one day give everyone what he has earned.” Therefore, we can more easily understand the words about the householder and the hired laborers. Only God will give a just reward. The reward that God gives is grace. When something is required of him, a person may ask, “What will I get out of it.” And God’s typical answer is, “All is grace.” We know that God alone gives life; man alone cooperates with God. When God invites, God gives life to man, and man can say “no” to God!

The steward in the parable is God. The workers He invites to work in the vineyard are the people. God allows man to dialogue with his God. God respects man’s reason and the freedom he has endowed them with. And we shouldn’t forget that he died for all of us. Those speculators on the construction site, thinking they could make money without honest work, went silent after a film was shown of their activity. Indeed they learned from the movie if they wanted to make money. And sure enough, when they changed their attitude and worked, they earned as promised.

Beloved brothers and sisters, dear worshipers, and children of the Virgin Mary! Today we celebrate the feast of the Virgin Mary, Queen of Heaven and Earth. This Marian holiday was introduced in 1954 when the Holy Father Pius XII—crowned in the Roman Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore a live image of the Virgin Mary, called Salus populi Romani – Salvation of the Roman People. It was on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the declaration of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary. Before the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council, this feast was celebrated on May 31; now it is celebrated a week after the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary – who took you, Virgin, into heaven and who, Virgin, crowned you in heaven.

My dears, people used to elect different “beauty queens” every year, or as it is more modernly called, “miss.” So we have “Miss Universe,” “Miss World,” “Miss Europa,” “Miss Republic,” and other “misses.” It is undoubtedly ludicrous, ridiculous – and I am not afraid to say the shameful behavior of this world. It would be much more necessary for us to choose the Most Holy Virgin of Nazareth as the only model of true and pure beauty for our spiritual life. This model of beauty stood two thousand years ago and always is and will be relevant.

Brothers and sisters, the example and model of the Virgin Mary can be followed equally by man and woman, young and old. The Virgin Mary is a model and an example for the poor and the rich, educated and simple, healthy and sick. The Blessed Virgin is truly a unique Queen, not only for that one year, but since her Ascension, she is the Queen of all times and ages, of all nations, and all human hearts.

My dear ones, the Loretta litanies multiply this royal title of Our Lady. The Blessed Virgin is the Queen of all the Old Testament patriarchs, as she is and will be the Queen of the last apostle. She is the Queen of all martyrs, from the righteous Abel to the last martyr on earth. She is the Queen of all those fighting and struggling, including those who, in an intimate consecration, want to belong as faithfully as possible to Christ in virginal integrity. She is the Queen of Peace – after all, warriors such as Camille de Lellis, John of God, or Ignatius of Loyola laid their swords on her altar, only to fight with the weapon of love and mercy for lasting and certain peace in the Kingdom of her Son.

Brothers and sisters, this heavenly Queen won the hearts of simple children and scientists, artists, and all the greats of this world and will prevail until the end of the ages, young and old. Her image or medal is known to the Iroquois and the Eskimo, the Indian and the Chinese, and the African black and the European of the Aryan race. Artists of all fields and at all times try to create the most beautiful works in her honor.

My dear ones, from the first beat of the Divine Heart of Jesus in her mother’s womb, the kingdom of Satan was shaken because Mary struck the head of the infernal serpent. It started so simply that it surprised heaven, earth, and the underworld. The girl from Nazareth opened her “royal career” in a way no one expected. Against the age-old enemy of humanity and the prince of this world, she pulled out one weapon – humility! My FIAT – LET IT BE TO ME ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD! To rule one day, she began to serve. To one day live in the royal palace, where the King sits on the starry throne, she began living with the royal Son in an ordinary Bethlehem stable. To be the mother of all, she first experienced exile in Egypt. To be the “Seat of Wisdom,” she began to work in secret as a Nazarene woman. To be a “comforter of the sorrowful,” she first had to experience Calvary.

Brothers and sisters, for the Virgin Mary to be the Mother of the Church, of all peoples and all ages, she first had to place the most precious sacrifice of her Immaculate Heart on the paten – she had to sacrifice her Son – the God-man – on the cross. She gave this divine Host as a propitiation to the heavenly Father to forgive Adam and his descendants, to adopt the whole world into the family of God’s children.

My dears, the feast of Our Lady the Queen should remind us of the sacrifice of her Immaculate Heart, by which she earned the tiara of Queen of Heaven and Earth. We congratulate her on the glory she paid so dearly for her love of us. Now it is clear why the Virgin Mother can royally win innocent hearts the way she once could to convert the stormy spirits of Ambrose, Augustine, Bernard, or Alphonsus. Now it is clear why there are so many Marian pilgrimage sites worldwide. Now it is clear why so many people fervently pray the Holy Rosary. Now we understand why famous surgeons call on the Queen of Heaven and Earth for help before surgery.

Friends of God, the Virgin Mary, Queen of Heaven and Earth, conquered the whole world with the beauty of her purity and the power of her humility. By humility – as St. Bernard – she attracted God, conceived him with righteousness, and embraced him forever with love. And she still welcomes him with this love as our Lady, Intercessor, and Intercessor. Whoever begins at her feet with trust and childlike devotion will sooner or later be convinced that Mary is truly a Queen with a Mother’s heart! Therefore, it was never heard of her abandoning someone who took refuge under her protection. O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who flee to you! 

It is common knowledge that today’s era needs more personalities. Yes, we have those who pretend to be the nation’s leaders and spread a lot of talk around them, but the government does not accept them. A person’s loyalty to ideas, character, principledness, and detachment from pride makes a person a personality. We can achieve all this at the appropriate level. And it is also necessary to think about this fact when reading the words from today’s Gospel.

Peter says to Christ: “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God” (Mt 16:16).

After the announcement of the angels on the fields of Bethlehem, where the world learns about the arrival of the Messiah on earth, Jesus lives in the silence of Nazareth for thirty years. Only once, when he is twelve years old, he reminds Mary and Joseph: “Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I am supposed to be where my Father is concerned?” (Lk 2:49). For thirty years, God has been quietly preparing to address the world. John the Baptist testifies about him: “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world ” (John 1:29). And at the baptism in the Jordan River, God the Father himself says: “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased” (Mt 3:17).
Jesus gains people’s respect through his behavior, miracles, and signs. Nicodemus, who comes to Jesus at night because he is a Pharisee, but a man faithful to God, says to Jesus: “Rabbi, we know that you have come from God as a teacher, for no one can do such signs as you do unless he is with him God” (Jn 3:2). Gradually, even Peter recognizes the awaited Messiah in Christ. However, when Jesus asks: “Who do they think I am,” Peter answers, and the Holy Spirit speaks through his mouth. Jesus himself confirms this when he says to Peter in response: “Blessed are you, Simon, son of Jonah, for flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my Father who is in heaven” (Mt 16:17). God the Father takes care of acceptance of his Son among men as God. However, the Son fulfills the will of his Father. He says it himself: “I can do nothing of myself. I judge as I hear. And my judgment is just because I do not seek my own will,

Anyone who wants to make a difference today must avoid the self-deception of pride. Pride is the beginning of every fall. Pride will never allow the one who succumbs to it to mean anything. If so, only for a while, and then the fall will be all the more painful, the higher the goal a person has reached. Let us remember the fall of the proud angels. Christ’s wish is that we confess his divinity here on earth, recognize him as our God and Lord with our lives, and he will take care of our growth and our position where he wants us. God wants each of us to have a personality. He wishes that parents not only demand from their children that they respect and love them but also that they faithfully prove all this that Jesus preaches with their lives. Likewise, with our life in all positions, we behave in such a way that we are believers of God the Creator, Redeemer, and Savior. Who does not point to his person,

We can learn this from Guiseppe Melchiorre Sarto, native of Riese, chaplain of Tombolo, priest of Salano, bishop of Mantua, cardinal of Venice, and pope of Rome. as a pope; we know him under the name Pius X. He did not excel in learning, although he was bright and educated. He did not excel in wealth because he still had debts but for others. He was not born, he was the son of a postman, and he became the Pope. He did not stand out for temporary values but for his love for people, humble and straightforward behavior, consideration, benevolence, and all this to show those around him not about his person but so that the world would know and love Christ even more. The Church gave him the title of saint. As Pope, he had the title of saint, but only as a title of ecclesiastical authority. However, he was always what God wanted him to be in his time. He was a priest, passed through all church ranks, and was always a representative.

The Church before him gave the title to the last pope after his death and elevated to the altar the pope of the same name, Pius V. However, he died in 1572. For almost 350 years, the Church did not give any pope the title of saint after death. In 1,100 years, the Church has given this title to only five popes. Why? Were not others of the holy life? We believe that they can all be in heaven, in a state of eternal bliss. However, with his life, Pius X was able to be a personality, to be what he should have been, the way he should have been, not only at the lowest position of the church hierarchy but also at its head.
One, let’s say, little thing from his life testifies to his personality.

When the secretary informed him as the bishop that two people were waiting to be received, the nobleman Cavariani and a confident woman, the bishop said to the secretary: – Let the woman come first. She certainly has children and needs to hurry to them. – When a parish priest complained to him about his parishioners, he said: – Dear brother, don’t you know that you are now blaming yourself? Go back among them and be a good pastor. – Then he took out his well-known snuffbox and offered his brother the words: – Just courage. God will help you. You must remember that only love can achieve love. – The Pope chose as his motto: Renew everything in Christ. He fulfilled his password. It happened that there were more miracles at the audiences. The healing of the blind and lame is mentioned, and many people cry: – Holy, holy! – after that, the Pope corrected them with a smile that they had got his name wrong. – My name is not Il Santo, but Sarto. – And yet he is a saint. It does not matter,

And who do we think Jesus is? Let not only our mouth speak, but what does our life say? We all know each other. And right here today is the time of grace when we want to cooperate with the Holy Spirit, change our lives, and direct our actions, words, and thoughts so that Jesus can give a similar testimony about us as Peter. We must become a person in the eyes of Christ. To be what we are meant to be. When we want to strengthen further the idea of ​​who means something in today’s world, we see many personalities, but they all have one thing in common. They have a tremendous human profile, adhere to proven human principles of coexistence with people, and are imbued with virtues.
Thus we see that spirituality has its place even where it is claimed that faith is not necessary for happiness on earth. Moral qualities and fulfillment of God’s commands make a person a personality both in the eyes of people and God. Today there are many of them in our surroundings. Unknown, they don’t stand out on the outside, and yet people value them, admire them, and give them respect. This is because they enrich their surroundings with their lives. They do not live only for themselves, and they do not live only for this world. And this is an invitation to each of us. Today we should all say to ourselves: I want to prove it, too, with the help of the Holy Spirit.

Our time – that’s all of us, including us here. Every person must enrich their surroundings and time. Every believer has the responsibility not only to bring himself to God but also to help others on the path to holiness.

What all can be expressed behind this word? However, we do not doubt and subscribe to values ​​that have their origin and goal in God. In the Gospel, Jesus says to the disciples: “Let the children and do not prevent them from coming to me…” (M19,14). Let’s say that the gifts and talents of children cannot be explained in any other way. It is simply a gift and is not determined only by hereditary assumptions. As parents and teachers, you give children everything they need for the all-round development of their abilities and their personality. Fearing that we do not spoil something about children at home, school, or ministry, we subconsciously ask ourselves: What do our children need education?

Nowadays, we have a vast range of advisors at our disposal. Books, magazines, professional articles, and debates in the media increase even more the space in which we can choose from different models of education. But this also increases the parents’ insecurity, because there is a lack of generally approved models of how fathers and mothers should raise their children. Much of what was brought up during previous generations is highly criticized today. One of the main trends in raising children in our society is the tendency towards individualism. It’s called self-responsibility education. Nothing would be wrong with that, but we must admit that being educated for its own sake is not enough to be responsible for freedom. Therefore, Years of education require decades to live in a community with others. To raise someone means to pull – to pull him towards some goal. Letting them run arbitrarily without any reprimand is a weakness of today’s generation of parents. Parents sometimes prefer to hide this weakness of theirs and say: My child has to make his own decisions, and we do not prescribe anything to our child. But, in recent years, we all observe that children need rules, guidelines, and help to make decisions. Parents’ excuses that children always have to make their own decisions express parents’ fear of their task of raising.

So, what education do our children need? Jesus Christ did not allow himself to be thrown off balance just like that for nothing. Children were brought to Jesus. Jesus did not follow them, but their parents brought them to him. Here you can see how important it is for parents to support the authority of others when raising their children consciously, mainly about teachers. The further, the more parents block children’s respect for teachers. The teacher profession is thus met with a double dose of ingratitude today.

Finally, express gratitude and appreciation for your initiative. I especially ask for God’s blessing for your work and for your further efforts to educate, improve and protect actual values.