Letters from Transylvania
Get Involved / Committees / Partner Church :: Dec 2001
 Dear beloved Friends, brothers and sisters in Faith! As you can see from attached picture the Angels have arrived here already. They have flown across the oceans and have brought here for the Christmas of 2001 gifts under the simple Christmas tree of many people: trust in the future and hope in the better living. We here are all very greatful to you all DEAR ANGELS and we thank you again for your help, for your warm hearts and your standing by us. Thank you for visiting us during the years. Maybe then we didn't realise that these pilgrimages will bring once the hope, the trust in the better future for many Transylvanian Unitarians. Today as we stand under the Christmas tree we can see that another dream has become true. And these dreams will join us forever. May God Bless you all and may this Chrismas bring you happiness and joy, and may it bring peace on earth and and trust and good will among people.
The staff of Harvest Hope Pro Homorod Foundation
Messages from our partners in Europe after the attacks of September 11, 2001
- The Rev. Kinga-Reka Szekely Who Was at UUFRC in October 1999
Dear American Friends
It is hard to find words which can express our astonishment and our fear in regard to the events in NY and Washington. What a shame for those who call themselves human beings, and for those who say believe in God. Our God doesn't have to do anything with killing innocent people. This wasn't God's will, but it was sick minded people's deed.
We are thinking of you every minute, and wish you strength to bear the fear. We mourn those who died, and hope that you together can find a way to console those who lost their loved ones.
We put out the black flag in the towers of our churches, because your funerals are ours as well. We pray for you now on our own, and Sunday we'll pray together in the churches for your safety.
You have to know that you are not alone in suffering, and that we hold you in our hearts because you are dear to us. Find peace in your souls, and hope that this won't happen again.
Much love and compassion,
Kinga-Reka and Csaba
Spirit of Life, our Heavenly Father, our "Egy Isten"!
Even if it is hard this days, we trust, we hope and we love...
Meet my minister colleges in Maros district, they asked me to express our sympathy and compassion to our American friends. We are shocked by tragedy what is happened in the Land of Freedom...
Our will is strong to help our partners, who suffer and are in needs. How can we help from long distance? We send our sorrows and hopes, we send them spiritual help. We pray and act for them.
Isten! You are everywhere: help ours with real human helping hands, help with tears-drinking fingers, give silent for hopes, inner peace for rebuild what we lost.
Help us to find the good way for love and life! Give us strength for having again the power of freedom in trust. Show us how to protect the values of past, of the present and of the future!
You are eternal. Give us the blessing of power, of freedom and of trust!
Amen and Amen
Szilard Sandor, Rev
Let me write here the names of Unitarian Churches and ministers in Maros district, whom I represent. We all are with you and we all send or sympathy and hopes:
- Bordos: Erika Demeter
- Bozod: Levente Lajos Fazakas
- Csokfalva: Levente Lazar
- Erdoszentgyorgy-Bozodujfalu: Erika Demeter
- Ikland: Attila Molnar
- Iszlo: Sandor Varga
- Jobbagyfalva-Nyaradszereda: Sandor Szen
- Magyarzsakod: Attila Pavelka
- Marosszentgyorgy: Albert Kozma
- Marosvasarhely: Laszlo Nagy, Csaba Kecskes, Maria Anna Szilagyi
- Nyaradgalfalva: Elek Torok
- Nyaradszentlaszlo: Mihaly Kiss
- Nyaradszentmarton-Csikfalva: Sandor Varga
- Nyomat: Szilard Sandor
- Rava: Arpad Csete
- Szabed: Sandor Jenei
- Szentgerice: Sandor Balazs
- Szentharomsag-Kisadorjan: Szilard Sandor
- Szekelykal: Attila Molnar
- Vadad: Adam Pal
You could be sure of all of the Unitarians in Transylvania we are with you in all of the districts and the Bishop Arpad Szabo. Keep up!
Isten aldjon!
- The Bishop of the Unitarian Church in Transylvania
Dear Unitarian Universalist Sisters and brothers in the United States of America,
Time has come that it is we, ministers and members of the Unitarian Church in Transylvania, who address to you words of compassion and support now that destructive terrorist forces have hit the democratic society of the United States.
We never thought that we would have to live up this day. During the almost 200 years of our relationship and cooperation, it was always you, citizens of the free and safe America, that intervened for us when nationalist or communist forces attemted to destroy the very existence of our Unitarian comminities.
Today, it is with shock and sympathy that we are taking part in your losses, especially the lives of thousands of innocent people. It is also embittering to see how a country, built by the ideals of freedom and justice, is suffering for speaking up for these ideals all over the Earth.
We trust that the Unites States will respond to these attacks by searching for justice, with the conviction that no political or social ideals can be served or corrected by violence. We also believe that it is our duty as witnesses of this horrifying crime to make sure that neither the United States, nor any other democratic society in the world would ever have to live through events like these again.
Our prayers and thouthts are with you in these hard days of trial. May God bless America and humankind with a safer future.
In our shared faith,
Rev. Dr. Arpad Szabo
Bishop of the Unitarian Church in Transylvania
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