Pfingst-Wallfahrt in Csíksomlyó
The pilgrimage web site Csíksomlyó (Roman. Sumuleu) is positioned in Transylvania. The massive Catholic church and the Stations of Christ’s Ardour on the adjoining hill have been cared for by the Franciscan Order for hundreds of years.
The pilgrimage has the sacred objective of paying homage to the late medieval statue of the Virgin Mary and of spiritually renewing oneself. At first it was the inner affair of the (Hungarian) Catholics within the space. Later, the Whitsun weekend developed into a gathering of the Seklers and the Tschangos. The “székelyek” and “csángók” are two Hungarian tribes that differ ethnographically and in dialect in sure respects from different Hungarians: they’re extra deeply non secular and cling extra persistently to their traditions.
Pilgrims from all around the Carpathian Basin
After the autumn of communism in 1990, folks’s need to reorganize these beforehand forbidden pilgrimages arose with elementary drive. However now not regionally, however for all Hungarians. Accordingly, final weekend, like yearly at Pentecost, many teams of pilgrims from all international locations within the Carpathian Basin got here to Csíksomlyó – and never simply Catholics!
Regardless of the wet morning on Whit Saturday, lots of of hundreds got here to this 12 months’s Holy Mass in entrance of the altar of the Three Pentecost Mountains on the saddle, the place the climate was already clear. The sermon was given by László Felföldi. The Bishop of the Diocese of Pécs emphasised that the message that shapes and renews our lives doesn’t come from outdoors. “It’s born in our hearts and turns into an intention following which a realization. Nevertheless it requires a residing relationship with God and with one another.”
Youth with empty pockets
In his sermon, he devoted a particular part to younger folks, warning them of the risks of the digital world and mentioning that they, “the younger people who find themselves chasing the longer term and constructing the longer term,” additionally want the enjoyment of religion.
He recalled the historical past of the statue of the Virgin Mary of Kismanyok within the diocese of Pécs, which was introduced from Hadikfala to Batschka (Serbia) in 1945 by the fleeing Szeklers from Bukovina. After one other escape, the folks of Tolna County adopted her as a result of they knew that “you can’t survive with out religion, with out hope, with out connection to God.”
Felföldi referred to the custom that in school commencement ceremonies a small faculty bag is symbolically positioned across the necks of graduates, as a result of “youth are value what we put of their faculty baggage.” He stated many younger folks as we speak have empty pockets, so we should not be stunned by their worry and confusion. “Be smart, as a result of as we speak it’s rather more troublesome so that you can distinguish between fact and lies, between actuality and the digital world,” the bishop warned.
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