It must be said who the perpetrator is and who the victim is – Paul Feri on the war in Ukraine and Putin | Hungarian Courier
Paul Feri pointed out how shocking in the history of the daily gospel (Luke 9: 28b-36) that Elijah, Moses, and Jesus were talking about what death Jesus would have to suffer. And this moving scene takes place in the light of glory. The speaker spoke of this tension, of sacrifice, in his homily.
By being condemned, killed, died, Jesus will be a victim of a situation, Paul Feri said, referring to the experiences of the victim helpers.
not only can those who are the specific victims of a natural disaster or war be considered a victim, but everyone who is a member of the victim’s family, who is in their immediate vicinity, will benefit from the sacrifice.
Their guard will also be characterized by all the pain, suffering, hardship, struggle, trying that is directly affecting their loved ones.
It is uplifting and wonderful how much it is worth saying in this current war situation, but it is also in their best interests: throughout, they are, in a sense, part of what the victims are simply going through. then
those who somehow witness a catastrophic event, that is, all of them through the media, also share in the sacrifice.
in this sense, they will be victims who are sensitive-minded, who have enough to see a picture, to hear a story, to meet someone, and it touches them very deeply. Even a sixth group becomes a victim in some way: those who have the possibility and the idea that “I could be there,” “it could happen to us, too”.
Paul Feri then took stock of what the victims themselves were saying later, what had given them real help. The real help, on the one hand, is what so many are now doing, directly or indirectly, trying to meet their most basic physical needs. Are you hungry Are you thirsty Where do you sleep? Do you have clothes Does the child have anything to eat? Do you have any medicine?
Equally, real help is for victims who are currently at a low point to find someone whose hand can be grasped, or who is holding their hand – the most basic physical connection to help the victim.
It is a real help to the victim to have someone to tell you what is in it: “But it’s good you don’t have to keep it to yourself!”
It is also a real help that there is someone who will address us. When many times we don’t even know what to say or who to say – we can be so vulnerable that we are paralyzed – and then there is someone who comes up to us, considers us human, and addresses us.
It is also a real and real help if the victim gets information about their own situation, what is happening now or what will happen in an hour, a day with him, where he can go, where he can get food.
Then the real help is getting news and accurate information about your loved ones, those with whom they have a narrower and broader meaning in common. Even in a soldier fighting on the battlefield, he keeps his soul in knowing that his wife, his child, is safe, that they love him.
And what is it that really helps if we can’t help directly? Let’s help the helpers and those who help them!
There are those who have this huge opportunity, ”the pastor added.
Shouldn’t we make three tents here? Says Peter in the gospel. Those who set out to help in any sense of the word have already chosen the elements they are struggling with, Feri Paul said. “Then someone has gone beyond being a victim of a situation and is thinking, how can I deal with becoming a victim of my own by helping others who may have become more of a victim?”
The first step in helping a victim is to say: he really became a victim, a victim of a situation. We need to testify because testifying means that the victim has credible information about their own situation. When a parent abuses their child, it is not an upbringing but an abuse, and there the child becomes a victim. When a man is sexually or otherwise abused by a woman, it is quite obvious that we have a perpetrator, a man, and a woman victim. When one child writes badly abusive things to a classmate through the panties of the World Wide Web, there is a perpetrator and there is a victim. And
it is important to say, precisely so that in addition to the victim, that you are now the victim of this situation.
In our Hungarian reality today, I can’t see teachers as perpetrators either, they are the victims of a situation.
This is how we get there, that Jesus is not just a victim, the speaker emphasized. “But first we look at the light of His glory, so it must be said: it is.”
it is quite certain that Jesus is the victim and others are the perpetrators.
In a month, at Mass, we will hear how the trial of Jesus took place. The power against Jesus, as the logic of power at all times, required that things be set as if Jesus were the culprit. He is the one who rebukes the people, he is the culprit, he is the one who does not obey the law, as a decent Pharisee, he is the culprit, he is the one who is followed by many, and from this we do not know what will happen, so then he the perpetrator.
Isn’t it shocking that eleven apostles — ten and one more — are winding down, not even under the cross? John is there and Mary is. What does that mean? They do not testify that Jesus is not a perpetrator but a sacrifice ”
Feri Paul called.
“The Russian president is not a victim but a perpetrator, and those living in Ukraine are not perpetrators but victims. Strange as it may sound, these have to be said because otherwise we did not stand up for the victims, ”the pastor added. We know what Pilate and Caiaphas did, the high priest also argued that it is better for a man to perish than for all the people to suffer.
When the President of Russia experiences before us that “I am the lord of life and death” and there will be plenty of sacrifices as a result of his actions, we must know, “he is not a lord of life and death, but a war criminal. And what he’s doing is a series of murders. And those with whom they do they are the victims ”.
In the rest of Paul’s sermon, Paul sought the answer to how the sacrifice knows the face of Jesus so that not only the sacrifice is reflected in it, but also that he is not a mere sacrifice.
The pastor recalled that, as a mental health professional, a lady in her forties at the time had been accompanying her for more than a year a week, she needed it, she became a victim at that level. When he was starting to get a little better, Feri asked him, “Now that you can look at your past as to who the perpetrator is and who the victim is, can you articulate what hurts the most for you? Maybe we still have work to do. ” “What hurts the most is that my parents didn’t realize I was a child of God. How is it possible that my father and mother did not see this on me? ” When someone says this, it means that they are no longer just a victim, they no longer see themselves as just a victim. Suddenly, the light, the light, appears, from which the face of the victim can be transformed, and in the meantime we are in reality.
I can then not only be a victim of a situation, but consciously make a sacrifice, ”added Paul Feri, who said that the glory of Jesus and his face are reflected in this difference.
The speaker also pointed out that the phrase “what kind of death must he die” may remind many: then is God the culprit now? Am
God does not say, “You will be the victim, and we will do this to you.” Jesus is the one who says, “This is my mission,” and the heavenly Father and us offer sacrifice because He loves the Father and us.
A catastrophic situation is not a punishment from God, Pál Feri continued. Referring to the coronavirus pandemic, he said, it was shocking to him when some people began to say what God’s plan was for the epidemic. On the one hand, because they can’t know. On the other hand, if we say that this is the meaning of the epidemic, we may be abandoning the victims, the sick, and the suffering. “That’s the point, grab it, do whatever you want with it!”
Paul Feri therefore recalled Elie Wiesel’s Holocaust survivor sentence, who was asked, “Looking back, what was the point of Auschwitz?” Elie Wiesel replies, “I hope nothing.”
In my heart, I would say beware of everyone telling us what this war means. I hope nothing ”
He continued. The mental health professional pointed out, in the midst of an epidemic or war, when we just stand on the ground and are covered in darkness, we may think we can’t stand by life until we tell us what it makes sense. But no, we don’t need to know, we need to know to live meaningful human life when there is an epidemic, when there is war.
One for all, one for all – Jesus did not live up to this slogan known to many. He found that he was for everyone, everyone against him. But
how beautiful it is for someone to say: my life can have a situation that I live in a way that everyone is against me, but I continue the sentence: I still do it for everyone.
It is the light of glory when the sacrifice is no longer a mere sacrifice.
Finally, Paul Feri also said, “Do we not say in our faith that Jesus is a real man? It really is, but God is real. Jesus really suffered, but in the meantime we know it is a reality when, in the wake of his suffering, he said, “It is fulfilled.” We say that Jesus really died, and so it is, but we also say he was truly risen. Jesus has been the victim of this situation for two thousand years, but it has been much more than that: it is the savior of us all. ”
Written by Sonia Agonás
Photo and video: Pálferi
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