Tomislav Ivančić, ‘Hagiotherapy in the Encounter with Man’
Meditation is listening to the most superb human ability, which is called spiritual ability. It is the spirit that gives life, the flesh is powerless. Look into the dimension of the spirit within you, where all solutions are possible.
Remember: you can despair, but you can also hope for a way out of the crisis.
You can kill yourself, but you can also look for a way, a path and strength to survive all deaths. You can stare into the dark, or you can open your eyes to the light.
You can surrender to defeat and humiliation, but you can also defy evil, choose life, success, getting out of the darkness and healing.
It’s your call. It’s up to you. Today, remember that you only have yourself and that you are the decision for life. It all depends on your decision. You are allowed to lose anything but yourself, never and in no circumstances. Fall in love with yourself because you are all you have and all that remains after every single failure.
You are Creator’s gift to you. Have you accepted yourself?
What is of the utmost importance?
Only two things are: first of all, you are important and second of all your Creator is important. If you accept yourself, then go to the Creator to heal, protect and encourage you. Accept yourself, and find growth, purpose and fulfillment of all your longings drawing near the Creator.
Stay in meditation long enough, as long as you experience healing, transformation, new strength taking place in you.
Don’t forget: do such meditation every day.
Think and maybe write it down
Good and evil, health and illness, freedom and addiction are present in the world…
You have freedom; it’s your call, to choose good or evil…
Evil takes away everything from you, even your life…
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/).
