Vremea catacombelor şi urgenţa lucrurilor
The Time Of The Catacombs And The Urgency Of Things

Summary/Abstract: The pages written up to date as well as their general title (How much I Loved You) obviously refer especially to the past. Nostalgia after old times, after friends who are no longer and for whom I have an irrepressible longing. It is the need to remember them, those who remain so alive in my soul, my longing, thirsty soul. However, the time we are now experiencing is, in a way, a special time, a time finally known and expected, when we, the Christians, the strangers of this world – as the Epistle to Diognetus so beautifully says, following the Apostle of the Gentiles – we do not commemorate a tragic past, but we feel, we sniff, we anticipate the scent of joy that blossoms as days go by, growing hour by hour, overwhelmingly, relentlessly turning towards certainty, the guessed reality of the eternal kingdom of which we hope to be worthy while we are still alive, tangible, like the Risen One who confirms it. The time we are going through now has a different dimension than the coordinates of the past, present and future. It is the time of eternity that comes, heals, ennobles, sanctifies. It is the unending of all those who once had an end. It is the time of the Resurrection in which How much I loved you turns into How much I love you. An endless love. For Christians, the meaning of these days should be deeper. The way how man cared only for the body in the exclusive sense of external ornaments and pleasures, of his own comfort built on the many injuries to God’s creation, became the crevices of selfishness and led here. Over time, the trial will pass, but my feeling is that the man will not understand the message, he will still not do his homeworks.

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