(On Nov. 17, Fr. Mariusz suffered a heart attack and is now recovering well)
Dear CFR Associates and Friends,
With deep gratitude I write to thank you for your prayers for my recovery. Certainly this experience has reminded me again of the precious gift of life, and especially of the precious gift of our Faith.
On November 2, 2011, Pope Benedict spoke these words:
"If we reduce man exclusively to his horizontal dimension, to that which can be perceived empirically, life itself loses its profound meaning. Man needs eternity for every other hope is too brief, too limited for him. Man can be explained only if there is a Love which overcomes every isolation, even that of death, in a totality which also transcends time and space. Man can be explained, he finds his deepest meaning, only if there is God. And we know that God left his distance for us and made himself close. He entered into our life and tells us: “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and whoever lives and believes in me shall never die” (John 11:25-26).
Be assured of my prayers for you and best wishes for a joy filled Advent Season. Please continue to pray for my recovery, that I will use this time as a time of prayer and renewal. Your intentions are in my heart at the celebration of Holy Mass. May God bless you abundantly!
Sincerely yours in Christ,
Fr. Mariusz Casimir Koch, CFR
Community Servant
Your friends from the distant past wish you the best, and hope you are back in Newark soon to continue doing your usual outstanding job of bringing God to all of us!
ReplyDeleteA Happy and Holy Christmas to you and all the brothers!
John and all your friends from Edgewater