{"id":3138,"date":"2017-02-05T22:41:15","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T11:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/?p=3138"},"modified":"2017-02-27T23:17:21","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T12:17:21","slug":"prezentacia-knihy-pamatnica-vernych-a-veriacich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/prezentacia-knihy-pamatnica-vernych-a-veriacich\/","title":{"rendered":"Presentation of book Pam\u00e4tnica vern\u00fdch a veriacich"},"content":{"rendered":"

5.febru\u00e1r 2017 bol pre na\u0161u komunitu pam\u00e4tn\u00fd! Do jej hist\u00f3rie sa zap\u00ed\u0161e rovnako, ako sl\u00e1vnostn\u00e1 vysviacka Slovensk\u00e9ho kostola v Lidcombe (21.3.1982), otvorenie komunitnej haly, \u010di vz\u00e1cne n\u00e1v\u0161tevy kult\u00farneho, svetsk\u00e9ho ako aj cirkevn\u00e9ho charakteru. Priv\u00edtali sme u n\u00e1s biskupov, umelcov, \u0161portovcov, ale i stovky n\u00e1v\u0161tevn\u00edkov Svetov\u00fdch dn\u00ed ml\u00e1de\u017ee v roku 2008.<\/p>\n

5.febru\u00e1ra 2017 sme na v\u0161etky tieto udalosti nielen spom\u00ednali, ale im aj d\u00e1vali bud\u00facnos\u0165. Uviedli sme toti\u017e na trh najnov\u0161iu knihu Ivana Hupku \u201ePam\u00e4tnica vern\u00fdch a veriacich\u201c. Ako u\u017e n\u00e1zov napoved\u00e1, kniha je pln\u00e1 spomienok, fotografi\u00ed, novinov\u00fdch v\u00fdstri\u017ekov a historick\u00fdch faktov. Na vy\u0161e 200 stran\u00e1ch mapuje hist\u00f3riu Slov\u00e1kov v Sydney (kde \u017eije ich najpo\u010detnej\u0161ia skupina), zrod prv\u00e9ho Slovensk\u00e9ho kostola v Austr\u00e1lii a v\u010faka nemu aj slovensk\u00fa, cyrilo-metodsk\u00fa trad\u00edciu tu, pod Ju\u017en\u00fdm kr\u00ed\u017eom.<\/p>\n

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Jej autorom je Ivan Hupka, ktor\u00fd s man\u017eelkou M\u00e1riou pri\u0161li do Austr\u00e1lie v roku 1968. Vtedy tu u\u017e bolo Slov\u00e1kov viac. T\u00ed prv\u00ed za\u010dali prich\u00e1dza\u0165 koncom 20-tych rokov. Hoci ani to nie je \u00faplne presn\u00e9, preto\u017ee v ist\u00fdch z\u00e1znamoch sa p\u00ed\u0161e o slovenskom mision\u00e1rovi, bratovi Jakubovi Longovi, ktor\u00fd sem mal pr\u00eds\u0165 u\u017e v roku 1888 z Mal\u00e9ho Slavkova na Spi\u0161i.<\/p>\n

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Najv\u00e4\u010d\u0161ia a skuto\u010dn\u00e1 Slovensk\u00e1 emigr\u00e1cia do Austr\u00e1lie sa v\u0161ak za\u010dala a\u017e po 2.sv.vojne. A na rozdiel od emigrantov smeruj\u00facich do Ameriky, Kanady, \u010di Dolnej Zeme, na ju\u017en\u00fa pologu\u013eu smerovali Slov\u00e1ci hlavne z politick\u00fdch d\u00f4vodov.<\/p>\n

Rozpt\u00fdlen\u00ed do r\u00f4znych k\u00fatov Austr\u00e1lie, sp\u00e1jala ich Slovenskos\u0165 a trad\u00edcie. \u201cNie je dobr\u00e9 by\u0165 \u010dloveku samotn\u00e9mu\u201d, hovor\u00ed p\u00edsmo a Sydneyjsk\u00ed Slov\u00e1ci sa ho dr\u017eia dodnes.<\/p>\n

V nede\u013eu 5.febru\u00e1ra 2017 sme knihu ofici\u00e1lne \u201cpokrstili\u201d (ako sa to hovor\u00ed v komer\u010dnom svete). A ako sa patr\u00ed na nede\u013eu, sl\u00e1vnos\u0165 sme otvorili sv\u00e4tou om\u0161ou, ktor\u00fa spolu-celebrovali k\u0148azi Emil Kr\u00e1lik, Peter Diko\u0161 (ktor\u00fd nieko\u013eko rokov p\u00f4sobil aj v Austr\u00e1lii) a Provinci\u00e1l SVD otec Henry Adler.<\/p>\n

Pr\u00e1ve on sa ujal mikrof\u00f3nu aj v hale a svoj pr\u00edhovor za\u010dal cit\u00e1tom zn\u00e1meho americk\u00e9ho spisovate\u013ea a novin\u00e1ra, Normana Mailera.<\/p>\n

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\u201cNap\u00edsa\u0165 knihu je ako vynosi\u0165 a porodi\u0165 die\u0165a\u201d. Otec Henry sa spolupodie\u013eal na publik\u00e1cii s historick\u00fdm obsahom, a ve\u013emi dobre si pam\u00e4t\u00e1 \u0165archy, v\u00fdzvy a bolesti, ktor\u00e9 t\u00e1 pr\u00e1ca so sebou niesla.<\/p>\n

P\u00e1n Ivan Hupka na tej na\u0161ej knihe pracoval viac ako 10 rokov. Od prvej my\u0161lienky, cez zhroma\u017e\u010fovanie fotografi\u00ed (v knihe ich je okolo 300) a faktov, a\u017e po h\u013eadanie vydavate\u013ea. Otca Henryho obzvl\u00e1\u0161\u0165 pote\u0161ilo \u010d\u00edtanie prvej \u010dasti knihy, ktor\u00e1 mu pripomenula rozhovory s mision\u00e1rom Emilom \u010cernajom, pred zhruba 20 rokmi, po\u010das jeho teologick\u00fdch \u0161t\u00fadi\u00ed. S hrdos\u0165ou mu vtedy rozpr\u00e1val o Slov\u00e1koch a ich nad\u0161en\u00ed. V\u017edy vraj vyzdvihoval slovensk\u00fd patriotizmus a r\u00e1d hovoril aj o slovenskosti a katol\u00edckosti, ktor\u00e9 boli pod\u013ea neho nerozlu\u010dite\u013en\u00e9.<\/p>\n

Hoci u\u017e odvtedy pre\u0161lo 20 rokov, Henry si st\u00e1le pam\u00e4t\u00e1 nad\u0161enie otca \u010cernaja, ktor\u00e9 mal tak pre misie, ako aj pre Slov\u00e1kov. Raz ho dokonca zobral so sebou do Lidcombu, kde mu hovoril o tom, \u017ee \u013eudia potrebuj\u00fa nielen kostol, ale aj miesto, kde sa m\u00f4\u017eu stretn\u00fa\u0165, porozpr\u00e1va\u0165 a vyzab\u00e1va\u0165. Ako pripomenul vo svojom pr\u00edhovore, vtedy ur\u010dite ani jedn\u00e9mu z nich nenapadlo, \u017ee Otec Henry bude v tom istom kostole sl\u00fa\u017ei\u0165 om\u0161e (t\u00fdm ist\u00fdm) Slov\u00e1kom.<\/p>\n

\u201cAko Provinci\u00e1l Spolo\u010dnosti Bo\u017eieho Slova \u010d\u00edtam va\u0161u knihu s ist\u00fdm stup\u0148om hrdosti. Strana za stranou opisuje mision\u00e1rov SVD, ktor\u00ed pri v\u00e1s st\u00e1li a st\u00e1le stoja, po\u010das ostatn\u00fdch 65.rokov. Od otca J\u00e1na Kras\u0148ansk\u00e9ho, cez otcov J\u00e1na Kov\u00e1\u010da a Emila \u010cernaja, a\u017e po ned\u00e1vno zosnul\u00e9ho Victora \u0160tevka a teraj\u0161ieho k\u0148aza Emila Kr\u00e1lika\u201d doslova povedal Henry Adler.<\/p>\n

\u201cVa\u0161a kniha ob\u0161\u00edrne a s re\u0161pektom hovor\u00ed o d\u00f4le\u017eitosti k\u0148aza v komunite. S\u00fa obdobia, kedy jeden od\u00edde a in\u00fd pride. Ale s\u00fa aj obdobia, ke\u010f Slovensk\u00e9ho k\u0148aza nieto. Komunita sa v\u0161ak aj napriek tomu nestrat\u00ed. Aj na\u010falej \u017eije a sl\u00fa\u017ei svojmu z\u00e1meru. Svojej misii v \u017eivote Slovenskej diaspory v Sydney.<\/p>\n

N\u00e1dej v st\u00e1leho Slovensk\u00e9ho k\u0148aza je e\u0161te aj dnes \u017eiv\u00e1, hoci komunita prijala realitu tak\u00fa ak\u00e1 je, a aj na\u010falej vo svojich \u010dlenoch \u017eiv\u00ed vieru a Slovensk\u00fa identitu\u201d.<\/p>\n

Ako \u010falej pripomenul otec Henry Adler, kniha nie je len o minulosti Slovenskej komunity v Sydney. Je aj o jej bud\u00facnosti. O \u010fal\u0161\u00edch gener\u00e1ci\u00e1ch, ktor\u00fdm sn\u00e1\u010f pripomenie sny a vizie, ktor\u00e9 mali ich predchodcovia a zakladatelia komunity. Z ktor\u00fdch mnoh\u00ed s\u00fa st\u00e1le medzi nami.<\/p>\n

\u201cJe o misii, ktorej zakladatelia va\u0161ej komunity verili, s ktorou sa stoto\u017e\u0148ovali, a ktor\u00fa sa aj na\u010falej ne\u00fanavne sna\u017eia naplni\u0165. Aj dnes ve\u013emi presne vedia, ako svoju v\u00edziu \u010falej \u017eivi\u0165, aby sl\u00fa\u017eila svojmu \u00fa\u010delu. Ide o spojenie vo viere. O \u013eud\u00ed, na pleciach ktor\u00fdch stoj\u00edte a o tom nerozlu\u010dite\u013eom pute medzi vierou s Slovenskou trad\u00edciou.<\/p>\n

Z m\u00f4jho poh\u013eadu va\u0161a kniha dokazuje, \u017ee Slovensk\u00e1 komunita a jej prosperita nestoj\u00ed na k\u0148azovi (\u017eiadna komunita nestoj\u00ed iba na k\u0148azovi), ale na v\u00e1s, jej \u010dlenoch, spolu s k\u0148azom. Nepochybujem o tom, \u017ee existencia va\u0161ej komunity a pokra\u010dovanie jej mnoh\u00fdch \u201cpo\u017eehnan\u00ed\u201d, ak\u00fdmi s\u00fa napr\u00edklad s\u00fabor Stono\u017eka a in\u00e9 kult\u00farne aktivity, ktor\u00fdm sa venujete, bud\u00fa z\u00e1visie\u0165 od oddanosti k va\u0161ej origin\u00e1lnej v\u00edzii a misii, a od u\u017e spom\u00ednanej nerozlu\u010dite\u013enosti viery a slovenskej trad\u00edcie\u201d.<\/p>\n

Otec Henry Adler svoj pr\u00edhovor uzavrel v\u00fdzvou n\u00e1m v\u0161etk\u00fdm: \u201c Bol by som r\u00e1d, keby ste aj na\u010falej p\u00edsali hist\u00f3riu tejto komunity. Aby ste boli tak\u00fdmi oddan\u00fdmi \u010dlenmi, ak\u00fdmi boli jej zakladatelia.<\/p>\n

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Na z\u00e1ver mi dovo\u013ete pogratulova\u0165 P\u00e1novi Ivanovi Hupkovi k tomuto kr\u00e1snemu dielu a k jeho anga\u017eovaniu sa v Slovenskej katol\u00edckej komunite Sv.Cyrila a Metoda v Sydney. A bez \u010fal\u0161\u00edch okolkov vyhlasujem t\u00fato knihu za “uveden\u00fa do \u017eivota\u201d<\/p>\n

Hovor\u00ed sa, \u017ee \u010dlovek skuto\u010dne nezomrie, k\u00fdm spomienky na\u0148ho nevybledn\u00fa. V\u010faka knihe \u201ePam\u00e4tnica vern\u00fdch a veriacich\u201c bud\u00fa na\u0161e spomienky ucelen\u00e9 na mnoho rokov a pre mnoho gener\u00e1ci\u00ed.<\/p>\n

Knihu si m\u00f4\u017eete k\u00fapi\u0165 ka\u017ed\u00fa nede\u013eu priamo v Lidcombe, po sv\u00e4tej om\u0161i o 10:15am. Jej cena je $20<\/p>\n

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Book launch introduction by f. Henry Adler, SVD<\/h2>\n

Norman Mailer once said: \u2018writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.\u2019 The metaphors about writing a book are usually to do with childbirth. Many years ago I had a modest part in a publication that included a historical component and I remember the struggles and pains that this exercise involved. Thankfully, unlike childbirth, in the process of writing and publishing a book there\u2019s not a lot of blood. The other big difference is that a human baby only takes nine months, from go-to-whoa, but publishing a book \u2013 I have no doubt this book too – took more than that. Ivan told me that it took him almost 10 years, including the task of finding a publisher, get the book into print and then shipping it back to Australia. But having read more than half of it so far I have no doubt that the child-birth like experience was worth it, as it always is when a new person or a new thing is born.<\/p>\n

Reading the first part of the book reminded me of the stories I heard some 20 years ago from Fr Emil Cernaj, a Divine Word Missionary and one of the founders of the Slovak Community in Sydney. At the time I was an SVD theology student in Melbourne and Fr Emil use to come regularly from Sydney to meet with the Slovak Community there. With great pride he was telling me about the ministry to the Slovak Communities all over Australia, the Slovak patriotism and the Slovak predominantly Catholic tradition\u2019 stressing the inseparable unity between being Slovak and being Catholic.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been more 20 years since I met Fr. Emil in Melbourne but I clearly remember the missionary zeal that radiated through him as he spoke of the importance of ethnic chaplaincies in Australia and his role as the Slovak chaplain. Few months later, while visiting Sydney, Fr Emil took me for short visit to Lidcombe to show me the Church and the community hall of which he spoke with pride. Once again he explained that there was a need for both a place for worship and a place to come together for social activities and one could not and should not exist without the other. It never crossed my mind (and I\u2019m sure, it never crossed Fr Emil\u2019s mind at the time) that one day I would have the privilege to serve God\u2019s Mission in Lidcombe.<\/p>\n

As the Provincial of the Divine Word Missionaries I read this book with a degree of pride as page after page I read about the Slovak Divine Word Missionaries who have served this community for most of these 65 years that are the subject of this book, starting with Jan Krasnansky, Jan Kovac, Emil Cernaj and Victor Stevko and now Fr Emil Kralik.<\/p>\n

The book extensively and very respectfully speaks of and acknowledges the importance of the role of the priest in the community. But as we read it we see Slovak priests coming and going and at times there is no Slovak priest at all. The community however adjusts, perhaps shifts somewhat, but continues living its purpose; it\u2019s mission in the life of the Slovak Diaspora in Sydney. The hope for a permanent Slovak priest continues to be there but the community has now embraced the reality and continues takes charge of its Mission. The book therefore is not so much about priests serving the Catholic Slovak Community but the whole community committed to its Mission of nurturing the fait and Slovak identity of the community.<\/p>\n

Secondly, for me this book is not only about the history of the Catholic Slovak Community in Sydney. I think it is more about the future than the past. It\u2019s there for you and the generations after you to remind yourselves about this Vision of the forefathers; the founders of this community, many of whom are here with us today. It is also about the Mission of this Community which founders identified and tirelessly continued to fulfil. They have been very clear about what the Vision and Mission has been and should continue to be to ensure its existence and its purpose. It is about a faith community, the people on whose shoulders you stand and about that inseparable unity of faith and Slovak identity.<\/p>\n

For me the book shows clearly that the existence and prosperity of this community does not depend on the priest, (it never does,) but you, members of the community, together with the priest. I have no doubt that existence and continuity of the many blessings of this community like Stonozka and other cultural activities will depend on the commitment of the Community to its original Vision and Mission and that unity of faith and tradition.<\/p>\n

I would therefore like to ask you all to continue to write the history of this community by committing yourself to be part of it like the founders of this community did.<\/p>\n

Lastly, I would like to congratulate Mr Ivan Hupka for this wonderful achievement and his commitment to the Cyril and Methodius Slovak Catholic Community in Sydney. And without further ado I declare this book\u2026. LAUNCHED.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

5.febru\u00e1r 2017 bol pre na\u0161u komunitu pam\u00e4tn\u00fd! Do jej hist\u00f3rie sa zap\u00ed\u0161e rovnako, ako sl\u00e1vnostn\u00e1 vysviacka Slovensk\u00e9ho kostola v Lidcombe (21.3.1982), otvorenie komunitnej haly, \u010di vz\u00e1cne n\u00e1v\u0161tevy kult\u00farneho, svetsk\u00e9ho ako aj cirkevn\u00e9ho charakteru. Priv\u00edtali sme u n\u00e1s biskupov, umelcov, \u0161portovcov, ale i stovky n\u00e1v\u0161tevn\u00edkov Svetov\u00fdch dn\u00ed ml\u00e1de\u017ee v roku 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3138"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3157,"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138\/revisions\/3157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}