Hungarians who live in the world and have a variety of knowledge about life and survival support each other, said the President of the Republic on Wednesday, when he hosted the leaders of the Hungarian churches across the border at the Sándor Palace.
János Áder spoke about: as the inscription on a mural on the wall of the Benedictine Archabbey of Pannonhalmi proclaims, "we cannot all know everything".
We are not all suitable for everything - he explained, emphasizing that just as there are many different barriers and obstacles to be overcome, there are also many different abilities, talents and opportunities. But it is precisely in this variety that a community can have a sustaining power, he said.
"This is how we, Hungarians, support each other all over the world. With many kinds of knowledge about life, with hundreds of years of experience about survival," he said.
János Áder noted: we feel this interdependence even more strongly since the outbreak of the coronavirus epidemic. "No one can escape alone," he quoted Pope Francis, adding that "we Hungarians - across the border here and there - cannot prosper, grow, flourish, or be strong without each other."
János Áder said goodbye to the church leaders, whom he hosted for the last time as president of the republic at an Advent lunch. He thanked them for their meetings, good advice, fraternal gestures and their honesty at all times.
He recalled: when he visited Lészpede, among the Moldavian csangós, three years ago, he was greeted with the disconcerting phrase that they had been waiting for him for 400 years, more precisely, first for the king, then for the current president of the republic. The head of the Moldavian Csangó Hungarian community said at the time that the attention of the motherland and the visit of the president of the republic meant that they were also important.
"Remembering this, I wish that on holidays from here and beyond, on borders from here and beyond, and of course during epidemics from here and beyond, we always take care of each other and remain a brotherhood," János Áder concluded his greeting.
The celebratory lunch was attended by László Kövér, Speaker of the Parliament, Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén, Minister in charge of the Prime Ministership Gergely Gulyás, János Árpád Potápi, responsible for national policy at the Prime Minister's Office, and Miklós Soltész, State Secretary of the Prime Minister's Office responsible for church and ethnic relations.
Source: Felvidek.ma/MTI
Image: János Árpád Potápi Facebook
