Magyar Egyház, 1974 (53. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1974-01-01 / 1. szám
8 MAGYAR EGYHÁZ his wife. Second, there is moral love: a love for the goodness in men, a love which makes us want to help sick people and old people. But these two are not enough. Having moral love only, we scorn sinners, we despise prostitutes, gamblers, and publicans. Therefore, we need a third and super-moral love, for we must love the corrupt sinner, even as God does. Jesus was bom on earth to teach us how to love even sinners. Jesus had a great consciousness of God, and in this great cosmic consciousness he could understand the failures of God’s children and could feel the need of redemption. The suffering of sinners and the suffering of the poor was his own suffering. We know that God can preserve the bodies that mankind must lose, but it was Jesus who discovered God’s principle of restoration of values that mankind has lost. Abraham taught God’s method of Creation. Moses explained God’s system of Preservation. Jesus illustrated God’s law of Redemption. This was the meaning of Christ’s relationship to God and to man. Christ lived on earth as the perfect example of complete fulfillment of love for God. He taught us that to love God we must love all of God’s creations, even the most despised of sinners. He showed us that redemption through the grace of God could be achieved only through self-sacrifice made in fulfillment of the will of God. When we acknowledge the love of God we create new values in our own life and thus preserve the values that God has created. The more you love the more you will find that wonderful energy of God flowing into your consciousness and that God is trying to act through your consciousness. It is then that we can become one with God and can make our mortal bodies the true instrument of the will of God. Then we have a great, overpowering urge to help other men also find this wonderful love of God and we draw closer to Him. We want to help men when they are tired and share their burden of poverty and despair. We want to cut them away from their chains of bondage and give them the true dignity God intended. We want to fulfill their faith in righteousness. We want to do this because we have compassion for all the suffering of mankind. We want to do this because we have such love for all the elements of God in man. No one can say how this love should be fulfilled. Nobody can weigh the effort or the value of the sacrifice we make to help our fellow man. Only in ourselves will we know when God is satisfied with what we have done. Laws do not make a good person or a good society. It is spirit that makes people and society good. There is no use for outer disciplines, or laws made only by man. There is only one enduring constitutional law of society: the law of sacrifice through love. Jesus died that our spirits might know this and live. We must experience the blood of Jesus. We must not shirk acceptance of the cross that Jesus bore. We do not take up the cross to punish our bodies, but to fulfill the will of God, to justify our being in the eyes of God, and to enable ourselves to be one with God. The cross of Jesus means permanent progress toward God’s true kingdom. It means a process of permanent sacrifice by the individual to help lift society to God’s level of consciousness and love. The cross of Jesus, and each individual’s acceptance of that cross, is the foundation upon which humanity can develop. On this redeeming love of Jesus we can build a new and wonderful standard of morality. Here we shall have the spirit of service, the spirit of brotherly love, the spirit of sharing together, and the spirit of social solidarity. With this new standard of morality we can unite men and women; we can unite all classes of society; we can unite the different nations; and we can unite mankind with God.-----o----Suppressed Grief Harmful io Bereaved In their determination to avoid the ultimate reality of death, Americans are denying people the right to grieve. Jacqueline Kennedy became a national heroine, not only because of her grace and beauty, but because of the stoicism she exhibited in the face of her husband’s death. Now specialists in dealing with death are telling us that a little more weeping and open expression of grief is better for our mental health. In the old days, when widows wore black and wreaths were placed on doorways, at least people had permission to grieve publicly. Today society cuts people off from talking about death two weeks after it occurs, he said. A study made at the Menninger Clinic which showed that 40% of its patients were there because of unresolved grief. (Grief can result from loss of a job, change of residence and causes other than death.)
