Good News (Proclaimed)

The essence of faith is incorporating invisible realities into our lives as certainties. Faith is an invisible sense organ, which comes to life within us through our soul. Instead of leading our living relationship with the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit to its fullness, what our sense organs – like our eyes or ears – do is to help us find the way to such a relationship. We hear about God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit at the holy mass, religion and Bible lessons, we see them on the altars, in frescos and paintings, practically anywhere – they come to life and show man the way to finding, preserving and strengthening the faith. There are countless answers as to when, where and how this happens to whom – this is what the series called ‘Ő és én’ (Him and Me) will show us during Christmastime by presenting a large number of personal testimonies.

Our eyes and ears as well as our soul, reason and emotions will come to form a blessed, harmonious unity at the 52nd International Eucharistic Congress next year, where we will have the chance to meet Jesus in Budapest. This good news will be proclaimed in a highly visible manner by the Catholic churches of Hungary, of which the main parish church of Saints Peter and Paul in Óbuda and the parish church of Saint Stephen of Hungary in Velence have been the first to display the banner promoting the Congress.

The banner featuring the words of invitation to the Eucharistic Congress was fixed on the façade of the main parish church of Saints Peter and Paul in Óbuda by the firefighters of the district in the presence of parish priest Zoltán Tercsi. In Velence, a municipality in Fejér County, parish priest Norbert Récsei placed the banner above the entrance of the church together with the sacristan, Dr András Sirák, local GP, and Balázs Farkas, head of finances of the International Eucharistic Congress.

Such banners will soon be seen all around Hungary, since the organizers of the world congress have sent one to all the Catholic churches of the country.

The parish priests of Óbuda and Velence, engaged in the campaign, were helped by firefighters and a doctor, respectively, which is in a symbolic and perfect harmony with the Holy Father’s tweet posted on Friday: ‘Let us give thanks for all the good there is in the world, for the many people who dedicate themselves freely, for those who spend their lives in service, to build a more humane and just society. We know: alone we cannot save ourselves.’