Three Wise men had a great desire to find the Messiah, but they didn’t know much about him. What they did know led them to Jerusalem and then they had to look for more information. They had this great desire but too little knowledge. The Wise men started to ask about the Messiah and caused great embarrassment among the people,…
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For the last few days many people travelled for just one purpose: to meet their loved ones for Christmas. The desire of spending Christmas together was overwhelming and gave people courage to overcome many obstacles made by the bad weather. Some of them spent long hours in long traffic jams, some of them waited for cancelled flights or trains. Some…
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I want to tell you a story that happened many years ago when I was a student. My seminary was in a former Cistercian monastery, which laid beautifully and stunningly among meadows, forests and hills. Although it laid on a main road it was quite hard to get there or to leave the place. I was part of a retreat…
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I’ve got one particular problem with the English language. It concerns my ministry among you. As you perfectly know, there are very few pronunciation rules in English, and even they have a lot of exceptions. So, actually I have to check pronunciation of many words in a dictionary. But the dictionary doesn’t contain all of the biblical names of people…
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Over the last few weeks the celebrations in Berlin, Prague and Budapest drew the attention of the mass media. Twenty years ago the peoples of Central Europe liberated themselves from communism and Soviet power. The desire for freedom survived in the peoples’ hearts despite oppression, persecution and brain washing. Communists believed that new generations, grown in that system would be…