On Whit Monday, we saw how Heaven met Earth - A documentary film about the NEK was shown
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The director, Beatrix Siklósi, channel director of Kossuth radio, emphasized that she wanted to give a picture of the world event that would appeal to the souls of believers and non-believers alike. He called the series of events a miracle, since despite the pandemic, people from all over the world came to the Hungarian capital to celebrate the Eucharist together.
Beatrix Siklósi expressed her hope that the personal examples of confession can make the viewers think about why the Catholic Church has been able to remain a living, strong community for more than two thousand years.
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Before the film screening, Cardinal Péter Erdő, Primate, recalled that the postponement of the congress due to the pandemic presented new challenges to the organizers, who stood the ground. They quickly realized that, in addition to personal meetings, invitations, and presentations, online presence is also important.
"In the summer of 2020, together with Beatrix Siklósi and the press chief of the NEK, we were thinking about what kind of content should be created that we could display in image and sound to popularize the world event," the head pastor recalled, then added: that's when the divine poems, short films about the witnesses, portrait programs of the With the participants of the 1938 World Eucharistic Congress, as well as two radio plays. the idea for the documentary Where the Sky Meets with the Earth was formulated at the same time
"All my resources come from you," the chief pastor referred to the motto of the world event. He said: the organizers did everything to make the event a real resource. "Not a lake, not a river, but a spring from which further life springs." Péter Erdő emphasized.
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The ceremony was attended by Head of State Katalin Novák, former President János Áder with his wife Anita Herczegh, Reformed Bishop Zoltán Balog, Tamás Tóth, Secretary of the Hungarian Catholic Bishops' Conference (MKPK), staff and heralds of the International Eucharistic Congress, as well as political, social , representatives of cultural life.
The film can be rewatched for 30 days on the Media Click .
Source: Archdiocese of Esztergom-Budapest
Text: Zsuffa Tünde
Photo: József Csapó
Hungarian Courier
