On the evening of November 26, in the D18 Café and Bookstore in Budapest, Gábor Bethlenfalvy's two children's books, The Friends of Jesus and Hungarians with Holy Lives - The Turbulent XX. century, illustrated by Krisztina Nagy Kállai.
The author of the book presents to us the IV. The sacrificial lives of Károly, László Batthyány-Strattmann, Sára Salkaházi, Vilmos Apor, Tódor Romzsa, István Sándor, and János Brenner. The volume is part of a series, the books The Life of Hungarian Saints and The Saints of Christian Europe have already been published by the author. These were also illustrated by Krisztina Kállai Nagy. All four volumes were edited by Bembó Stúdió.
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János Székely, county bishop of Szombathely, wrote a foreword to the books; and he presented them to the public on November 26.
János Székely pointed out that it does not matter what kind of images and stories flow into the hearts of young children, who are their ideals. An astonishing book entitled Children Without Childhood was published in the United States. The author, Marie Winn, states that today's American children do not look like children, but rather like adults. According to the writer, this is because all the unhappiness, confusion, and bitterness of adults and parents are too soon thrust upon the child through the media. "A child can unselfishly be a child as long as he believes that the world is beautiful and good wins.
Love controls the entire universe, we are on it in the palm of God's hand. We came from him and we return home to him.
The child needs the feeling that he is surrounded by his parents' love, this mysterious fetal envelope, and later a slightly bigger one, when he feels that the whole world is in place, that the creator God is carrying him in the palm of his hand", emphasized the bishop .
János Székely/Forrás/Hungarian Kurír/Zita Merényi
It doesn't matter what ideals a child has. You can't start a child off in life by patting him on the shoulder and saying: you can do it, just go for it! That's very little. Only a hope greater than ourselves, a treasure, can truly move us forward. What we did not create, which can lift us above ourselves and enable us to be generous, generous. Such a treasure can give a child a lifelong boost. It is hidden in these two books. A message to the heart - highlighted János Székely, and also drew attention to Krisztina Kállai Nagy's pictures, which are both cheerful and childlike, but also have depth and seriousness; messages next to the text, reflect the reality that the texts are about.
The Creator hides treasures in every small child, so many beautiful talents and opportunities, but many children never know why they were given these many treasures.
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We teach the children so many things, the English language, how to use the Internet, but what it means to be human, why you have to be honest and generous, how to face illness, suffering, death, how to keep a marriage beautiful for a lifetime, all of that many children hear almost nothing, or only too late, when they have already received a million wounds from life and become addicted to passions. One of the greatest tasks of a parent is to light the fire in the heart of his child, so that he can understand why he is in the world, where he needs to go, how he can give, create and love, forgetting himself, if necessary, even sacrificing himself, said the bishop.
“These books radiate that. Thanks for creating them. I wish that as many people as possible buy it for their children and grandchildren, thereby giving them the kind of food that expands their hearts and fills them with love, credit, and generosity - Bishop János Székely concluded his presentation."
Vilmos Gryllus/Source/Hungarian Kurír/Zita Merényi
At the book launch, Vilmos Gryllus, a two-time Kossuth Prize-winning musician and one of the founders of the Kaláka band, sang psalms accompanied by guitar.
Source and full article: Magyar Kurír/Dániel Bodnár
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