Church heads send Easter messages in Hungary

Budapest, March 26 (MTI) – Jesus sacrificed himself on the cross to free mankind “from the trap of its wickedness” and thereby broke the “shell of history”, Cardinal Péter Erdő, head of Hungary’s Catholic Church, told MTI in his Easter message.

Cardinal Erdő, Archbishop of Budapest-Esztergom, said this divine behaviour shows history and the world in a different light.

“Even though the horizon sometimes seems dark and hatred seems to prevail, … the sky of history can still clear up and the sun of divine love can shine over us again”, he added.

The head of the Hungarian Reformed Church’s synod, Istvan Bogárdi Szabó, said the history of mankind is a series of crises, but Christ’s resurrection introduces mercy in the history of cruelties.

The crucial and overriding message of Christianity is that “if we look at Christ’s resurrection, we can see the mercy in .. hopelessness and this mercy has the capacity to change us”, the Protestant bishop said.

Hatred, violence and fear cannot have the last word, and violence is certainly not the right answer to violence; this is the painfully topical message of Easter this year, Péter Gáncs, the head of the Lutheran Church of Hungary, told MTI.

He said the world has been unwilling for two-thousand years to listen to what Jesus has got to say: that mankind cannot be led to peace with arms and violence.

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Source: http://mtva.hu/hu/hungary-matters