Katalin Novák's journey from the house of God through the Sándor Palace to the hearts of Hungarians.
May 14, 2022, God's shining Saturday, Sabbath, will remain a day with golden letters in the recent history of Hungarians. The official journey of our nation's first female head of state is a true confession of faith: from the ecumenical service held in the Budapest-Kálvin tér Reformed Church to the ceremonial inauguration in Kossuth tér to the Sándor Palace. But this path goes much further: already to the hearts of millions.
With her sensitive motherly heart and in the words of her first public speech, the woman's soul embraces a nation with her exceptional, subtle diplomatic talent, trying to bring representatives of opposing values and interests to the table of national public understanding, even if we are many and diverse. Among Katalin Novák's political virtues, she flashed her decisive distinguishing ability, for example with the 10 points of Hungarian national sovereignty and interest representation, at the same time beautifully exemplifying that we can be successful and proud Hungarians in all our earthly affairs if we preserve the right proportions and directions, the full dimension of being.
In order to preserve and remain, we need respect for the Lord of history, the sovereign God, living faith and, in his reading, gratitude, an ethic of gratitude. Today, millions, including me, could feel that the President of the Republic, Katalin Novák, raised a struggling, highly talented people, in which many kinds of faith are capable of creating a national creative force, with her serene and determined spirituality, to the value of existence and existence that belongs to us. in the sea of peoples.
With the flash of sufferings, historical struggles, and stand-ups, he ironed out in us the sometimes crushed national self-esteem, the pure national flag that was tainted by enemies and our own disbelief. We thank Katalin Novák for the memorable day of the promoted country and the smoothed and purified national self-esteem.
Dr. Lajos Békefy
With ecumenical dignity - with a verbal orientation
The memorable profile of this special Saturday was already presented with great spiritual harmony and perspective in every detail, starting with the ecumenical service. You can see compilations of the festive occasion, the inauguration of Kossuth Square and the first "virgin speech" in several places . From today's rich series of events, we highlight the spiritual points that are indicators of a new, renewed national political and ecclesiastical culture.
During the thanksgiving at the Kálvin Square, Zoltán Balog, president-bishop of the Reformed Synod, formulated the answers to the basic question from the Word: what does God's Word expect from us and what does God's Word say to us individually, as a community, as a nation, as a church? Today is a quality moment - said the bishop - because it has never been like this before: surrounded by the prayers of the Jewish Sabbath, in the embrace of Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed, and world Christianity, we can ask for a blessing to serve our first public dignity. The blessings of the leaders of the churches, including Transylvanian Reformed Bishop Béla Kató, Roman Catholic Cardinal Péter Erdő, Lutheran President-Bishop Tamás Fabinyi, Greek Catholic Archbishop-Metropolitan Fülöp Kocsis, II. On behalf of Syrian Orthodox Patriarch Ignác Efrem, Pastor Najla Kassab, President of the Reformed World Family.
Touching, beautiful prayers were offered by the representatives of the Hungarian creative world, and the response of those present echoed: Please, Lord, hear us, bringing a true ecumenical liturgy to the walls of the Calvinist cathedral. All the denominational leaders of the Carpathian basin also said this national-level ecumenical blessing wish together. Katalin Novák prayed for her responsible public service with Solomon's prayer: Give your servant an obedient heart so that he can govern your people, distinguishing between good and evil (1 Kings 3:9).
Spiritual intermezzo - vox humana Novaciana
Among her family, in the church and on Kossuth Square, as a happy mother and, hopefully, as the future lady of the nation, we could see and hear the mature politician speaking with the spirit of reconciliation in her ten-point speech. Meanwhile, I remembered the noblest Hungarian national traditions. Our praying politicians: Reformed Transylvanian prince Gábor Bethlen with his unshakable certainty of "If God is with us, who is against us" and his Charles Bible, which he has read more than thirty times, nourishing this firm conviction.
Báthory and Bocskai's steadfast character in faith, Rákóczi's service dedicated to country and freedom in the name of God flashed before my mind's eye. Széchenyi fell to his knees, with his faith in national independence and progress conceived in prayer. Kossuth's protest for the homeland consummated in the dethronement of a foreign power. And the unshakable conviction and life sacrifice of many, thousands, for the advancement of the homeland. And as an answer, despite the good and bad memories of seven decades, the sentence of the President of the Republic echoes in the echo chamber of my heart, receptive to the vox humana novacianara:
"We don't want to win the war, we want to win the peace".
His determination to do something for a self-aware, sovereign, happy and bright Hungarian nation. Recalling the prayerful faith of our great women who think and act in Hungarian. Ilona Zrínyi, Erzsébet Szilágyi, Zsuzsanna Lorántffy, Kata Árva Bethlen, baroness Kata Petrőczi Szidónia and others shape patriots and raise their love of God and trust in their country to the horizon of national existence. The broad-mindedness that does not stop at the banks of the ditches, but builds bridges, is able to search and find the doors leading through the walls, the key to them, and if necessary, penetrate the impenetrable with the power of wall-breaking truth-seeking and conviction.
With the tenacity to build a strong bridge country from an almost sunken ferry country. And it comes to mind as the fortissimo of our spiritual intermezzo: what did the orders ask of Prince Bethlen, the savior of Transylvania and the builder of the country, in 1619? That your grace should hold individual and public, public (national) self-examination and repentance. He was so humble that he listened to the request. And far ahead of Western Christian countries, he introduced the national prayer day of introspection. Poenitentia publicat. The President of the Republic, Katalin Novák, began her speech in Kossuth Square as a self-conscious reformer with the cantus firma of the Heidelberg Káté: Gratitude... May God grant that, following her example, a culture of gratitude may be born in our nation, in our country, because there is reason to thank God. In fact, for everything.
With the witty and grateful words of Kata Szidónia Petrőczi (1658-1708), a calomist baroness from Transylvania, we wish that the main content of this illustrious day, the future promotion of the country, the homeland, the nation, and the unostentatious, non-haughty rebirth of our national self-respect, will be accompanied by a blessing at the head of the country Katalin Novák. For the benefit of our Hungarianness, paying attention to God, and therefore respecting fellow countrymen. In the words of our reformed Katá: "As you say - so it is, Lord! As you promise - so it will be, Lord! What we ask - give it, Lord!". It was very good to be Hungarian today - we hope and ask God for this for tomorrow and the future as well, trusting in the gentle victory of the vox humana Novaciana!
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