Mashiri in Ukraine: We help people not to bend in hatred

Svetlana Duchovic – Vatican City

“It is very difficult for me to travel outside Ukraine, because when it leaves you, you feel anxious and responsible for those who stayed. But only there are only four days, we decided to go. ” Father Olet Barbolik, one of the six Catholics priests who are these days in Rome on the occasion of the jubilee of missionaries, repeats the media in the Vatican the importance of participation in this holy year. He says, “In Ukraine,” every day he falls into a missile or drone, every day in the Russian attack, someone loses its life: adults, children, men or women, because the bombs do not make a difference. However, we were not important to participate in this act, but also in Sanning Sans, but also at the headquarters of Sans, but also in the introduction of Sanmina, but also in Sans San, but Pedro, our prayers for Ukraine, for our people, for our army, for all our people. ”

RatedIn times of war

Pope Francis’s missionaries from Mercy received the same forces to create sins that are strict efficiency in the Apostolic headquarters, but not only. They entrusted the special task of strengthening the secret of reconciliation and embodying God’s mercy in their pastoral service. What does this task mean in the context of the war that causes a lot of suffering and deep shocks? For Father Olet, “It is a very difficult question.”

The first thing that can be said, notes, “God’s mercy is never difficult to preach for those who believe. To understand the mercy of God, it is necessary to understand what is related to God’s mercy with evil. God’s mercy for all who can accept it. It is not something that can be imposed. When we talk about the mercy of God and the love of God in times of war, for those who do not have faith, this will remain invisible, because people are blaming God for everything that happens. People understand from faith that wars and all terrible events happen because people do not believe in God, and do not want to accept their love and the truth. The current war in Ukraine is a war -based war. It seems that in today’s society each of them can have their own reality, and this approach allows some to justify this war. For us Christians, there is nothing but an objective fact, and this fact is always revealed to man by God through his moral law, his commandments.

AMore is at risk of disappearance

The priest notes that this war outside Ukraine is seen differently. A episode of his last day, when he and the other priests were in the group in a store in Rome. “Oh, everything is calm now,” said the seller, when they know that they are the Ukrainians. Then the pictures of the bombings in Dnibro and other parts of Ukraine taught him, and I told him to bomb us every day. She replied, “They are not talking about it in our news.” Yes, war is seen in Ukraine differently. In war, it is the place where love is at risk of disappearance. ” Hence the extreme importance of preaching God’s mercy. “In Ukraine”, the priest continues, “the confessions have become different, there is more pain, more fear, sometimes more despair, and more questions in confessions. But the task of every confession, not only missionary of mercy, is to help people understand that society, under the influence of the negative news, they deliver the danger between the electrode between them, and for this reason is the reason that this is the reason for that. , For our soldiers, because this is what drives the fruit.

Another picture of the missionary of the mercy of Ukraine, during the Hajj

the heart From the task: Give hope

Father Ole tells that at the beginning of the great war, he was like many Ukrainians, “trapped” in the news: He read them where he could, sleep and wake up worried about what was happening and where. Then I remember, I realized that I was doing something wrong. This is not my job. What gives me? I waste time and energy. what can i do? It serves, confessing, celebrating the liturgy, gathering people to pray, and giving them hope, which is the source of the Lord, giving God to people. This is the task of every priest today: I bring hope, mercy and love for people, because God can transform the greatest suffering into the greatest good. God is able to do miracles, but we must learn from him to be patient, to find out the truth. But not as we want to see it, but as it is. The basis of human life must be the truth of God again. ”

Confession stops mthe

In the Vatican, Ukraine priests pray for peace, a fair and lasting peace. “We also want to pray,” the father says, so that everyone understands the truth about war, so that he understands what war is. The most important thing is that people who listen to this fact are able to accept it. Confession is an opportunity to stop evil in life, it is an opportunity to change. Missionaries of mercy, like every priest, every confession, are in fact people who stop evil, who give the opportunity to drink in the future.

After the jubilee of missionaries, the Father Ole and other priests will return to his country. “We will return with our people in Ukraine – to be there with them. In addition to whether it is bombed or not, it is our land, our people and our church, and we are called to live and serve it.