Back from Hospital -- Thanks For the Prayers and Encouragement

For Christ Has Reconciled Everything to Himself

On Easter Sunday, I went over many things in my mind, even some that have to do with Katholisches.info. I had not expected to spend the Easter Octave in the hospital.  Everything came unexpectedly quickly and radically.

The instantaneous decision to visit the hospital, proved to be  true coincidence. "This is very serious,"  I was told, after 48 hours the cause had been securely identified. The statistics speak indeed of an impressive situation. In the German speaking areas alone,  tens of thousands of people die every year of it because the symptoms are misinterpreted and the danger is not recognized.

The events led me to consider once more, just how fragile human existence is in this world. Out of the blue life and death come close. And how wise and humane, is the Church Who exhorts us to be prepared.

The so kind wishes, which were communicated to me, especially those of the readers, did not make it easier for me to stay in hospital, but I was also very touched inwardly. Praise for me dissolves in me a certain amount of embarrassment, but I could accept this gratefully as it was in brotherhood. It's an experience in such a situation for which I would like to thank from the depths of my heart.

The "Spiritualized" Emptiness of the Full Tomb

Minden Cross (almost 1000 years old)

In the hospital, there was the opportunity for some good conversation, which demonstrated the innermost desire and longing of people for beauty, truth and goodness. In each hospital room of a public hospital there was hung a cross, all anti-cross-judgments and secular attacks notwithstanding.

The visit to the hospital chapel was sobering, as far as the "spiritualized" emptiness found. It reminded me of the outrageous content, of the arrogant  Easter paper of the EKD, according to  which it was "not definitive" for the Christian faith, whether the grave of Christ was empty or not on Easter Sunday.  But Christ was present in the Blessed Sacrament. What a grace in such a place. The Tabernacle: a charming cube of a steal shell from a creative designer whose configuration might  be more suitable for a luxury refrigerator.

The wall before which  the priest celebrated Mass versus populum, though pleasingly colorful, was but meaningless. On the altar, after all, was a metal cross as the only support for the troubled human eyes. The bars of the cross without corpus were so thin that one's eyes could hardly fix it, they did not want to fall into the position of having to constantly watch the priest in his actions. On a side wall, a wonderful wood corpus of the Lord caught the eyes, hung a larger than life.   What a contrast in the same chapel.

A young man kneeling reverently beside me in the pew, I invited afterward in front of the chapel to an event, where he had the opportunity to get to know the tradition.

The appreciation of the readers made it easier for me to switch off completely for this time. This also means that I now have some catching up to do, it is read to follow up on contacts to gather information and to rate the seven and.

Call genocide genocide also - The Martyrdom of Armenians

Armenian settlement area in 1896

The only report, despite the "intermission", that I've received in the hospital bed, has pleased me: Pope Francis named the 100th anniversary of the suffering of the Armenians for what it was, namely genocide. That had been done before him by John Paul II. Already in 1915 Benedict XV, raised his voice in favor of this ancient Christian.

In the international sense we speak of genocide, in the canonical sense in a far higher level of martyrdom. What happened in parts of the Ottoman Empire and wanted the beginning of the 20th century by the young Turkish government, was the martyrdom of an entire people, even more so: the martyrdom of Christians. Flayed, interned, displaced and killed were the Armenians, the Greeks, the Syrian Christians (Chaldeans, Assyrians, Arameans).

Their crime? To be Christians. Expressed cynically: Your crime was to be Christians in the "wrong place". The new nationalism demanded uniformity by hegemonization. The hegemon was Muslim, Sunni and Turkish. There was no place for Christians, was the verdict that was mercilessly and violently executed in all directions in bloody deeds.

Unfortunate and disturbing is the reaction of present-day Turkey. It is doubly questionable because those governing now  stand in the tradition of the Young Turks and yet have a greater distance to the events. Only what insight can  be expected from other Muslim governments and political / religious movements in the Islamic world, when the Turkish government, which has been courted by the West for so many decades and is considered the closest partner of Israel in the Middle East, shows so little insight?

It is distinguished from the Church of Christ,  Who calls a spade a spade and stands to behind her brothers and sisters in the faith. Especially where the policy is prepared, based on which interest whatsoever, to expose merciless killing on the one hand  and on the other hand to cover up the killing of the other.

Days of Recovery

Now, these are still days of recovery, but the doctors were convinced that the therapy is going well and have released me to home. It will take a bit to close the gaps. The longer essay on Dom Helder Camara, on which I worked on Tuesday in the Octave of Easter and from which I was torn out, will have to be postponed for the time being. I hope to publish it as soon as possible.

I want to thank all of our readers and also all employees, authors, and not least the editor, for the sympathy and prayer, but also for the patience in such  fast-moving times and especially the "blindness" somewhat in the information area.  It will be my job and obligation to comply with this confidence through their daily work. In the meantime, I would ask you to recommend me the grace of our Lord, so that the recovery completely successful and no complications.

In grateful Bonding
Your Giuseppe Nardi

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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