Reading Sentences from the ‘Epistles of St Paul’
Requires either a mood like from the final scenes Departure (Taking Off) Miloš Forman, or analytical abilities interpreting the messages of the RPP RP. Nevertheless, it is worth practicing. The most mysterious is the constant (for thousands of years, regardless of the scale of the current war) belief that what is most important either can be written down, signed and sealed, or - paradoxically - spills and flows faster than an ink blob or human blood.
All in all, it doesn't matter, as long as it's finally Hyper. "A Polish-Ukrainian service on the anniversary of the Volhynia massacre was held in the Warsaw Archcathedral." In a holiday climate, in shorts, flip-flops, cleats, flowers in your hair, such a ceremony could be acknowledged in short. This time it's not worth it (https://wpolityce.pl/kosciol/653673-oredzie-kosciolow-w-80-anniversaries-of-the-wolyn-slaughter-check).
Even when someone is completely out of the way with elderly gentlemen dressed so avant-garde, if he is not planning a quick and far move, he should take a look at the common Message of the Churches on the 80th anniversary of the Volhynia massacre. Church documents have their own specificity. This one in many places refers to John Paul, to earlier documents, but only in one (repeated in the title) to the verse from Letter to the Romans. A sentence written in Greek by a zealous Jew, from the profession of a public prosecutor, the sentence written two thousand years ago is now supposed to secure something in the conditions of war, to suggest the direction of action? Religious madness? Perhaps, in the end, it is an internal agreement between the factions of Catholics, and where is the Orthodox, where is the rest who no longer believe in anything, tired?
Nevertheless, before new announcements appear from the front, before the wave of disputes about crop exports over the fall, before the daring and uncompromising idealists of each nation insist on their own, before we have to learn to talk about anything with those who have returned from the trenches and do not really know what year it is now, this message is worth reading.
There is nothing careless about it, the hierarchs have mastered the technique of avoiding such words to perfection. There is a title reference to a strange sentence from the New Testament. The first part of it is surprisingly consistent with the logic of the battlefield.
The intensity of evil can only be overcome with greater intensity. St. Paweł uses a Greek prefix with an exceptionally military, rocket sound: Hyper (Ὑπερεπερίσσευσεν).If evil (Hamartia) Goes everywhere, Spills widely, grace must spill Hyper-wide, hyper-fast, hyperintensively, hyperabuntly. This is the logic of a children's cartoon. The signatories know this very well, so they added another Greek word in the comment, but well tamed by modernity: Paradoxically.
"Paradoxically, the result of Russia's attempt to annihilate the Ukrainian nation is a mutual rapprochement between our nations." "Where sin was increased, grace was poured out even more abundantly" (Rom 5:20).
And in the next verse (Romans 5, 21) it is only about the future, it is about an uncompromising victory, not even ours, but of life (“We are allies now!”).
There is no such laboratory yet in which it is possible to test from morning to night in subsequent serial repetitions of experiments how violence distorts memory. We guess that these should be experiments similar to Crash tests Tractors and attractors carrying human intentions. We don't know how to build such a laboratory. How to find regularities between violence and memory? Combing through the dustbin of culture from this angle, sometimes we are not sure whether such collisions deform, educate, or maybe even Educate Next generations of memory and post-memory.
We will need such knowledge very much and soon. Unfortunately, historical guslas, Hanna Arendt's conscientious reading, or even the memories of those who survived are not enough for this. Yes, it is useful, but it resembles too much the decorative, cultured pattern with which we try to compulsively bandage, tie, keep in one place our own fear resulting from trauma, which we have not yet experienced at all.
Time, the passage of time, as in any well-registered crash test is invalid, our reliable, alert memory can reproduce a sequence of events indefinitely, in any order.
Once upon a time (even before the war), Parisian doctor Jacques Lacan wrote about a terrible, incomprehensible crime in an eccentric surrealist magazine: He is souvient of the horrible circles of the massacre... We still know as much as he does, "we remember terrible circumstances" more and more new crime scenes, we have an infinite amount of space in (anone's?) Memory.
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In the photo: in the middle of a common message on the eightieth anniversary of the massacre, on the sides and under the table phantasmagoria and inventions.