HAVE COMPASSION WITH ME…
The course of the meditation: Sit or stand before Jesus. Look, if you have the chance, at His cross. He forgave everything so that we could forgive. He forgave everyone. He has forgiven you and that is why you can be free for others. Then go in your imagination from one man to another, especially those you cannot stand, and recognize everyone as a brother or sister. Have compassion for everyone. Behind the visible body, behavior, look, words, appearance, discover the eternal in man. But, go to everyone with your heart, not just with your mind. That is how you begin to love. You are becoming new.
All people are „thrown“ to Earth without knowing who put them to life and where they have to go from here. Everyone suffers, they are mortal, fragile, endangered. Everyone has various flaws and they are powerless to be good. Everyone sins and everyone is afraid before the last judgement. Everyone is bound by passions, flaws, their narrow views, their mentality. They did not decide to be born and they do not want to die, but „fate“ brought them here.
We are all equal in that. We all whine, cry and seek equally. For some, the moan is seen more strongly, for others it is hidden by apparent solutions. Both are slaves to evil. Both need only compassion. For man, therefore, one should have only compassion. We should pity everyone, help everyone, not judge anyone, not „break the stick“ over anyone. Love the enemy! We will all be in front of the same judgement, where the masks and deceptions around us will disappear, and then we will see each other with regret and fear – why did we hate each other so much? We are all children of the same Father. In every man your suffering, beloved brother cries and sobs, even though he is of another religion, race, ideology, nation, belief, even if he is an enemy.
How to love every man?
How can you forgive everyone? Remember: we are all seduced. The devil wants to destroy us, so he represents us to each another as enemies. Don’t let him seduce you against man! The strongest weapon of man is forgiveness. To forgive means not to be naive, not to let yourself be deceived and seduced by Evil One. It means to be strong and grown up, a mature man and – to defeat every evil.
He was born in Davor in 1938. After studying philosophy and theology in Zagreb and Rome, he was ordained a priest of the Zagreb Archdiocese in 1966. After achieving a master’s degree in philosophy and a doctorate in theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, he returned to Zagreb in 1971, where he became a professor at the Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb. He is the head of the Chair of Fundamental Theology, and was one of the editors of the Theological Review. Areas of his scientific work are philosophy, theology and literature. He explores the relationship between philosophy and theology, faith and science, atheism and religiosity, revelation and faith, the Church and ecclesial communities, Christianity and religion, the phenomenon of sects and issues of theological epistemology. His special field of interest is the study of man’s existential-spiritual dimension, where he discovers the way of modern evangelization and the necessity of the development of spiritual medicine, which, along with somatic and psychological, is indispensable in the complete healing of man, especially in the healing of spiritual diseases and addictions. For this purpose, he developed the method of hagiotherapy and founded in 1990 in Zagreb the Center for Spiritual Help, of which he is the head. From 1971, in addition to working at the faculty, he was a student religious teacher in Zagreb, the initiator of the prayer movement within the Church of the Croats, the founder of a religious society called the Prayer and Word Community(MiR), and the leader of numerous seminars for spiritual renewal and evangelization at home and abroad. After completing his studies and scientific doctorate in fundamental theology at … (Read more at https://hagio.hr/tomislav-ivancic/).
