Those people who build a church, a congregation, and a value-creating community at the same time, enrich the country, said Gergely Gulyás on Sunday in Zalaegerszeg, after the service held in the renovated reformed church.
At the celebratory event of the 80-year-old church, which was renovated with the help of the government and municipalities with the help of the government and municipalities, the minister said: this is how Europe and Hungarian statehood were once built. This is how we survived disasters in which we would have perished without God's help, and "isms and ideologies" that earthly power tried to promote instead of faith.
The minister put it this way: those who want to shape people's thinking in their own image "according to their business and superpower interests", all other communities stand in their way. This is especially true for communities that preserve Christian traditions.
Gergely Gulyás believed that in Zalaegerszeg there is a living Reformed congregation capable of renovating the house of its own community, which can still fill the church after so many years, and nurture and pass on its own roots and traditions to the next generations.
He emphasized: the church building decorated with Kalotaszeg motifs "was an unquestionable and unavoidable exclamation point" in the Rákosi era, which was sinking into terror, and in the Kádár era as well. "It was a refuge", where you could find the way to God even in the most difficult times.
The minister in charge of the Prime Minister's Office also touched on the fact that Zalaegerszeg has undergone significant development in the last decade. World-leading companies have settled there, roads and utilities have been renewed, and last month the museum named after Cardinal József Mindszenty was handed over .
"The communities of Zalaegerszeg are getting stronger", the life and work of the reformed people is proof of this - Gergely Gulyás summed up.
Source: Vasarnap.hu
Image: MTI/Varga
