Zoltán Balog spoke in the church of the Reformed Parish of Budapest-Fasori about the great need to not only see the power of those who "confuse and make our lives impossible", because of whom the work of lives is destroyed.
He quoted Psalm 63, David's psalm from the time he fled to the wilderness of Judah. On the one hand, this psalm tells us that before and since David, millions had to flee to "nothingness", the wilderness, where there is nothing to hold on to, where there is no human help.
But David's psalm also tells us that, despite all human promises, bad things happen again and again, deliverance always comes, he said.
He added:
the deliverance offered by the word of God through King David is not the result of the power of weapons, that deliverance can be found in the "sanctuary".
Because as David goes to the sanctuary to see God's power, he comes to this realization: "God, your love is better than life."
The Reformed bishop also spoke about it: it is good to see the Hungarians who stand on both sides of the border, who help, take care, give bread, water and accommodation to the refugees.
" What a miracle this horrible war would be if the helpfulness and love of the Hungarians dispersed the hatred that is artificially created again and again " against the Transcarpathian Hungarians, he said. The Hungarians are now implementing what Jesus advises in the Sermon on the Mount: " If they throw you a stone, throw it back with bread!" ".
Zoltán Balog said at the beginning of the service that this devotion was announced to the refugees from Ukraine because they know that
spiritual help is at least as important as material.
At the same time, " we not only want to give spiritual help, but we also want to receive help in order to be able to help well, speak well and love well in this difficult situation, " he said.
Zoltán Osztie , parish priest of the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Budapest-Downtown, spoke about the fact that the Hungarian people now "represent the new order of reconciliation", "radiating peace", providing helpful and friendly favors.
He quoted Saint Augustine, who defines peace as "the tranquility of the divine order". Peace is therefore not only the silence of arms, not only the absence of hateful antagonism. Peace ultimately comes from God, "and we have to ask for it and accept it, just like any other gift," added Zoltán Osztie.
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