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Give me your wounded heart, Fr Slavko Barbarić (review)
Give me your wounded heart, Fr Slavko Barbarić (review)

„This book is the fruit of experiences connected with the events of Medjugorje, and it wants to help you on your journey.“

There's only one final path to walk on. Only one Road of Peace. Although, every new day gives us the opportunity to go where we want and how we want. There's no „highway“ to speed up our journey and lead us quickly to the right destination. Moving slowly, without any shortucts and benefits, tirelessly we search for Peace. Along the way we search for signposts such as a „written words“. These are books, which someone has written through their experiences to teach and inspire others. „Let the word of Jesus dwell in you richly, teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, and sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs...“(Col 3:16-17)

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To live with the heart - The life and work of Fr Slavko Barbarić, Fr Marinko Šakota (review, part two)

At the end of the book, Fr Marinko introduces about the spiritual profile of this special friar-man. He doesn't want to portray him as a perfect Christian. Nor was he. He had his weaknesses but he fought, day by day. Fr Marinko writes: „Another capacity strongly marked his personality: living in the present moment. He used to say that some people clung to the past because they regret what had happened yesterday, and worry about the future out of fear for what might happen tomorrow. They are fixed on the past or on the future, and they miss the present-day. As they feverishly hold on to the past and the future, they so not realise that they are losing grip on the present moment, which is fleeing like sand from a closed fist.“ Everything that Fr Slavko did in his life, where he participated in, founded and supported was achieved with lot of efforts invested in everyday minorities. The most beautiful activities, associations, festivals and...