From the speech of prof. Tomislav Ivančić, PhD at 8th Study of Hagiotherapy in July 2016
Man, get to know yourself! That means: see, man, that you are not an animal. You are not a monkey, nor did you come from a monkey. You are above all animals. Why? Because you have a person, a conscience, an intellect, a mind. You have freedom, you have responsibility and awareness. You are creative, you create; you are a social being, you live for others. You are connected to the Creator; you communicate with Him.
First, look at what your name is? That is your name. Second, what family do you belong to? That is the last name. Third, what nation do you belong to? It is your family, even bigger. Everyone has their first name, last name and nationality. Without a nation, man is nobody and nothing. Without a name, there is no man.
Then, remember who chose you to come to this world? Did you choose to be born yourself, or? Then, remember, have you fulfilled your life plan? What is the meaning of your life? Why are you here on earth? How many more years will you live? Will you leave something behind, visible traces in people, in culture, in yourself? What does the word Creator mean to you?
You need to penetrate the world of Spirit and Light. That is, simply seek the Creator’s presence; to become aware that every detail around you is full of the Creator. There is no place where He would not be because the Creator holds every detail of the matter, every detail of your body and makes every cell of your body function.
Finally, if we all come into the world, then there has always been something. Philosophers call it Being. There has always been someone because life is around us. Therefore, Being must be life. So, Being is life! That Being is a person. And everyone so far, over millions of years, has always called that person God. Therefore, that Creator is in everything. He holds every detail.
Nothing works without God. Be aware: He is here!
Let us get rid of the fact that the Creator is somewhere in heaven. If He is not on Earth, then He is not even up there. If God is not there, if I am not on His palm and in His heart, then there is no God! God is the breath of your soul. And as long as you breathe Him, you live. If you don’t have oxygen, if you don’t have air, you die. Inhale faster: there you are, there you are, there you are! There is no place where you are not present!
As soon as you enter His light, dirt is seen on you. Whom did you hurt? Whom did you gossip about? Who did you say ugly words to? Whom did you criticize terribly? Who don’t you want to talk to? Go to them in spirit and ask them to forgive you: “I am sorry! I said an ugly word. I thought evil of you. I spoke negatively. I muttered again, shouted again that I was sick, that I would die, that I could no longer… “
First, ask God for forgiveness: “I am sorry that I do not acknowledge you as God at all, but I think you are someone among us. I am sorry! Almighty, Eternal… Forgive me!”
Look into your body and tell it, “Forgive me, my dear body! I didn’t respect you. I did not respect your intimacy, I am a slave to fashion… “ Wash yourself completely to feel that you are finally your own. Now you know who you are!
Now go to those who hurt you. And it hurts you, it leaves a lot of dirty, immoral, evil, vindictive things on you, a lot of hatred and it is not letting you be healthy. It destroys you. Go, tell them: „I forgive you!“ And that means: „I do not accept your negativity. I don’t accept your ugly criticism. I am not what you say, but what God thinks of me, and God loves me.
Forgiving another is not a virtue but a condition for you to be a normal person at all, to live.
As soon as you are good, as soon as you forgive and pray for forgiveness, you are eternal, you exist, you are indestructible!
Understand, there are seven billion people in the world, but how do you personally benefit from them? When you get sick, who can help you? When you die, who can help you? Who can help you when you are sad and miserable? When you get sick when you get an incurable disease, when you are in pain? When everyone leaves you and everyone gossips and slanders you… What do these people mean to you? Nothing at all! But there is always someone left who never leaves you and who loves you – the Creator, the one who called you into the world, created you, who watches over you, holds you with his hand. Become His friend now: “Creator of the world, here I am! I come out of ideological misconceptions. I want to be an intelligent, free man to whom the whole universe belongs, all people, eternity. ”Make a friend with your Creator today. It all depends on Him!“
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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/).
