It was 2020, and the coronavirus epidemic was raging. At that time, in St. Gallen, Switzerland, the Spirit of God prompted the Reformed pastor there, Uwe Habenicht, and his team to try to compensate for the confinement of the quarantine with some valuable work, homework.
At the beginning of March, the idea of copying the Korona Bible by hand was announced on the Internet. By Pentecost, 950 people had joined the copiers, in addition to Switzerland, from Austria, Germany and other countries. First, the entire Bible was not compiled, and then it was realized. On 3,811 pages, the great work was finally published in more than a dozen wooden binders. Some even drew illustrations in their handwritten work. On March 14, 2021, the entire Bible copy was handed over to the foundation's library. You can read about everything on a separate website.
The idea and the creation of the Covid-Bible were also initiated by the Hungarian Reformed.
The online service of three Reformed pastors: Uwe Habenichté from St. Gallen, dr. It belongs to Lajosé Békefy, Judité Pálfi Vinczéné in Nagyváradon, the speaker councilor of the Királyhágómelléki Református Egyházkerület, who fantastically organized the work of copying, which was started on September 18, 2020, with their methodological circular published together with director general Dénes István Lukács.
The birth of the entire 21st-century, hand-copied miracle of the Bible in Várad-Nagykárol was reported the other day in Hungarian and English across the border from here and beyond. Good news also spreads like wildfire. to Washington and Shanghai, and all over the Carpathian Basin.
The Hungarian Bible miracle of 1590 by Gáspár Károli has preserved its most important driving force even in the conditions of the 21st century in a new form: the personality of thinking about God while copying by hand, the palpable, tangible joy of the book, the community-creating spaciousness of the message of life that can be experienced even in confinement , its life-sustaining power.
We live in a community that crosses ages and borders!
What a special grace, guidance and miracle it is that the 14 beautiful volumes of the Covid-Bible, copied by hand, even with heart and prayer from Várad-Nagykárol, were presented when it was the Carpathian Basin Day of Hungarian culture. Yes, the Word of God connects us, embraces us, and makes us brothers, no matter where we live in the mutilated homeland. It is also a miracle that this transmission of the Word and sustaining message of joy took place in the language cradle of Károli, in Nagykároly. It is also a miracle that the great work was completed before the Bible Sundays of 2022, in honor of and as an introduction to them. After all, a part of world Christianity will observe Bible Sunday next Sunday, January 30, at the time indicated by Losung in 60 languages. Domestic Protestantism and fellow believers in the Carpathian Basin on March 6. We sing with Luther again this year: "The Word stops like a stone, it is ashamed, whoever hurts it".
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