Amerikai Magyar Hírlap, 2002 (14. évfolyam, 4-45. szám)

2002-10-25 / 41. szám

AMERICAN Hungarian Journal MEDITATIONS by Dr. Bela Bonis Consul General Szabolcs Kerék-Bárczy’s Address - MacArthur Park, October 20, 2002 Pastor (562) 430-0876 (CONTINUED from last week) It has never been quite clear to me whether St. Paul got it exactly right or all wrong abut Abraham. He says Abraham "did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, or when he considered the barren­ness of Sarah’s womb. (Cf, Ro­mans 4:19-20). The problem is Abraham’s laugh. When God comes to Abram to rename him Abraham ("father of many") and to tell him that he and Sarah will have a son though Abra­ham is 100 and Sarah is 90. Abraham falls on his face and laughs (Gen. 17:17). At first glance it looks as though con­siderable distrust makes him waver, because he goes on to remind God that he already has a son, Ishmael, and suggests that God should settle for the possible. Perhaps Paul reads the laughter differently - not as a denial of faith, but as affirma­tion. Abraham’s laughter may mean "No way!" or it can mean "isn’t that something!" God moves anyhow right through it: "No, but your wife Sarah shall bear you a son, and you shall name him Isaac." Isaac, of cour­se, means "laughter." At any rate, Paul takes Abraham not only as the father of many, but as the ancestor of all of us in the faith. The good news is that Abraham does believe in God’s promise, "hoping against hope.” God took that faith, that hoping, and "reckoned" it as righteousness. Paul knows that God’s promise to Abraham is not at all different from God’s promise to Jesus. The God who brings forth Isaac from loins and womb "as good as dead" will bring forth Jesus from death itself, for our jus­tification. But "is anything im­possible for the Lord" - Abra­ham was asked by the Lord after Sarah, too, laughed at the divine promise for her to have a son. Nothing is too hard for the Lord. However, the psy­chological reality is Sarah’s laugh. We may wish that noth­ing is too hard for God, but we fear that we are mistaken. And laughter is a reaction to fear. In the life of trying to be one of God’s people we can bounce between a religious naivete on the one hand, that knows and mouths the right answers but is separate from our every-day sel­ves or, on the other hand, a protective cynicism that can view biblical promises and hope as only metaphor, only "stories", sugar-coating reality. .Our life in God calls us to be present to the Lord with all of ourselves, our hopes and our fears alike. In the final reckoning Abraham’s faith, his hope against hope (despite his laughter, along with his laughter), was the right way of relating to a gracious God. Ladies and Gentlemen! Very Distinguished Guests! Let us remember! Let us remember those who wanted freedom and national independence, who expressed these wishes, and who, if they saw no other alternative, were ready to fight for these ideals. Let us remember our heroes: the victims of dictatorship and terror, the young people of Pest, who disregarded dangers and fought against tyranny, the people of other cities and the provinces who participated hand in hand in the revolution and freedom fight. Let us remember the soundness and the good heart that made most of the politicians join the revolution. 1956 was not a one-time sparkle in Hungarian history. During our long history we had always been able to prove to be ready for freedom and sovereignty. This readiness was embodied in the in­tentions, the works of the mind, in the deeds of leading personali­ties, and in our faith. In our 20th century history we had several of these sparkles: after the Second World War only foreign weapons could prevent Hungary from introducing democracy, and in 1956 it was again the Soviet tanks that crushed the uprising of the nation. These sparkles flickered, but the embers kept on glowing, so that in 1990 we could irreversibly make our long-time dreams come true: Hungary is now an independent, free, and democratic country! Saint Stephen was dreaming of a stable country in the Car­pathian Basin that was built on faith in God and strong ties with the neighbors. This is what he passed on to his son and the generations to come. The character of a nation stems from the depths of the soul, the desire for what is good and beautiful. And we know that if we let the external circumstances ruin our integrity the whole body will disperse, and similarly, if we resist the evil we will be able to create and build communities. This is why such ideas as faith that strengthen integrity are universal, therefore they are not dependent on politics or other social or scientific thoughts, but rather on humanity. Hungary was movingly unified in 1956. But the whole world was watching us, too, and realized the meaning and the importance of the fight. Man recognized the fight of man for good, and this is true despite what politicians did or did not do at that time. And no matter how strange or painful it is, we have to look deeply into the future in order to remember the past. Because the meaning of the past is the future. Ladies and Gentlemen! Let us remember so as to make others remember and take warning. Remember the course of events of 1956, so that we all can learn from the revolution. Remember what preceded October 23rd and what the consequences of the freedom fight were, because we have to make a difference between good and bad. We all have to re­alize that there is a strong line between morally good and morally bad. This is also the message for today and a lesson for the future. But we also have to remember that wherever evil is bom there is also goodwill. A deed that imprisons or executes a soul does not kill the Soul itself. We are frail that is why we commit sins over and over again. But we are thinking and feeling human beings at the same time, and that is why we also do good. This rather philosophical thinking is very practical, because it is about human nature. Thus, let us remember that hope, faith, and se­renity are also parts of revolutions, because these are ideals in whose name revolutions are fought. The counterpart of hatred is love. The creaking engine of dictatorships is hatred. The fuel of de­mocracy and freedom is love. Let us not forget this when we are now celebrating the 46th anniversary of the revolution and freedom fight of 1956. Thank you very much for your attention! "Fateless" Film Project Gets Nobel Award Boost BUDAPEST - Lajos Koltai, a Hungarian Oscar-nominated cinematographer, has been trying for years to raise money to shoot a film based on a Holocaust book by his friend Imre Kertesz. Last week, Kertesz became the first Hungarian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, and Koltai now hopes the money will come rolling in. Koltai, nominated for the 2000 Academy Award for best Cinema­tography for his work in Giuseppe Tomatore’s "Malena," said he was overjoyed when he heard his friend, who survived the horrors of the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps during World War II, had won the Nobel award. "I’m at a loss for words... my phone is ringing non-stop, it feels almost like when I received my Oscar nomination," - he said. Kertesz’s defining first novel, "Fateless" - a first-person story of a boy’s survival in a concentration camp - was written between 1960 and 1973, and published in 1975. The two men have been working on a film script for two and a half years, and Koltai hopes to start filming late next year. Koltai is trying to raise up to $8 million to make the film - high by East European standards. "I agreed with Kertesz that this story was not worth making into a movie unless it was done under the most perfect conditions." He said the best advertise­ment for the film would be the star quality of Kertesz himself. "When, the other day, he read some parts of his latest novel, I saw again that not only is he a highly unique thinker but also a great performer." András Muller CELEBRITIES AT THE CSÁRDÁS Pictured left to right: Valerie McConnell, producer (Vale­rie’s Stage, Speak Out America); Peter Allman, President, Celeb­rity Scene News, producer and host of Insights of Las Vegas and also host of Straight Up, a new half-hour TV show; Susan Jancso, Editor, American Hungarian Journal and co-owner of the Csardas Hungarian Restaurant run by her husband Julius Jancso. the goulash pot #1 Magyar Restaurant Nevadában Kedvesen fogadjuk önöket az elegáns kis étteremben finom ebédre vagy vacsorára. Nagy választékban lehet rendelni különböző ételeket, sokféle napi szakács ajánlatot. 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