Ignis numquam dicit: sufficit
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One thing must not be forgotten, however, that in today’s world, everyone must provide what God has entrusted to him: so I can only write about Father Kerkai what I have experienced next to him and about him. Neither “inspiring episodes” nor “cheerful things” can be selected about Father Kerkai. We experienced the strained work and the strained sacrifice, and we were forced to see the continuous “insignificance” and spiritual “declassification” of the man we consider to be the “greatest Hungarian” after Széchenyi from the age of 55. And he undertook all this consciously, without a word, and offered it for the Hungarian people. His favorite folk song really applies to him:
“In the snow of a rainbow, a rosemary thread opened.
Oh! Can't find a place, wants to migrate… ”
Heavenly Father took him out of there and put him in a new place, because “his only love: the Hungarian people” could not and did not want to appreciate him!
But on the 30th anniversary of his death, I do not want to grieve, for for him it was a heavenly Birthday, and it is the anniversary of the “true Birthday” of the present commemoration. That is why I want to commemorate how we, our last co-workers, saw Him. And from this, perhaps others can guess who JENŐ KERKAI S.J. was, who will help us, even from heaven, to accomplish what He has sacrificed his whole life for.
