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- Praised be Jesus Christ
- Forever amen
- What I will say, let be for the glory of God and help to You.
You are here of different religions.
There is not just one way to heaven, the catholic way,
sincere protestants will get to heaven,
czech-brethrens will get to heaven,
sincerely moslim will get to heaven,
jew or sincere faithless, will get to heaven.
Who is searching sincerele, will get there, certainly.
I am a catholic priest and therefore catholic mountain guide to the top.
But there are other good paths, as to the objective.
Yes, the objective is good and so the paths are good.
I'm not saying equally safe, equally demanding, but they are good.
Therefore any honest man will not be lost, don't fear.
One calls the same being God, the other calls it Yahweh, another Adonai, another Alah,
another nature, another higher principle.
Name it as you want, right?
My mother taught me to call this being God.
I was born as a catholic, but I do not believe that this was crucial, that I had some merit to that I am catholic.
If my mother was jewish, I am jew,
if she was muslim, I am muslim,
and if she was atheist, I am atheist.
And therefore all brothers and sisters that we are here:
it is only essential that we won't stay down, but we walk upwards.
What upwards means, I'll say later in the speech.
When I was young - little about myself, so that you understand me better -
I wanted to get married. I hope you will not loose faith when I say that,
I was greatly looking forward to wife, I was looking forward to wife, I was.
I was interrested in horses, guns, karate, rock climbing.
What does it have with clergy? Nothing.
But I didn't want to be a priest I wanted to get married.
I was looking forward to a daughter.
If I had a daughter, I would get crazy from the pleasure.
Point your finger, show what you want, I will trade for a daughter, trade for daughter. Show what you want, I will trade,
so big was my yearning.
When I graduated, I had my plan. Like you, just like young people have a plan.
Maybe like your son, your daughter, addicted.
They had their plan, as I did.
I had my plan, to graduate.
To graduate. When I graduated from high school,
Lord God, I became strong believer before exams, I began to pray, right
Oh my God, let just graduate somehow!
I say - Jesus, it doesn't need to be best marks -
I was negotiating, I say, I was a slacker,
Jesus, if my classmates will have best marks, I will not envy them, they are swots, they deserve it
My Jesus, but the worst marks, neither the worst, or my father ....
So I said then as this lady says, three will be ok (marks 1 - 5).
My Jesus, I don't have to, I don't have to be nuclear physicist,
just any college, doesn't matter which, you know I want to work in Mountain Rescue Service,
I want to live in a forest, I would like a wife, a daughter, a horse, a rifle.
This is how I negotiated with Jesus.
And it seemed, I am faithful man.
I have my plan and help me God.
Like you say - I have my plan and help me God.
And it seems you are very faithful.
I have my plan and help me God.
So I had my plan, same as you.
But then I think, my God, I would like to live in the woods, but would a women would like to live in the woods?
I began to consider, I think - I will ask my classmates(girls) if they would like to.
So I asked them, made a test:
- Would you live in the woods? - What? Are you crazy? In the woods?
I asked the other one - And you, would you live in the woods? - What? What am I, Tarzan?
So I modified my plan, Lord God, at the foot of the forest, on the edge of the forest.
You know, so that the woman had it close to the city and I to the woods.
But it always was my plan.
I have my plan. So how you do. I kept to my plan.
I have my plan and help me God.
And man, you are nervous if something is not according your plan.
You've got your plan and help me God.
Worst, the proudest man is the one who is nervous about God.
Lord God does not follow my plan, how can it be? That are the super-proud ones.
And since pride and foolishness are two sisters, twins,
the proud one will work the way to foolishness,
and a fool will work his way to pride.
They are twins, notice it, right, twins.
When you have nerves on Lord God - that is grand foolishness,
and you will work your way to pride and that is your bust.
I have my plan and help me God.
So I had my plan so as you, so as your son and daughter.
Then I had an accident, I fell in Tatra mountains,
from Gerlach peak, thirteen hours until they brought me down,
six climbers, at 12 at lunch I have fallen, at 1 o'clock at night I was in the Poprad hospital.
Six guys from Prague, were thirteen hours getting me down.
If some of you saw the Vertical Limit, climbing movie,
I had been to the movie five times,
and not that the boys would go with me, I seldom go to cinema,
the boys would say, they don't go to watch the movie, but the priest - how he does not even breathe -
I, during the movie, right?.
It was our case - They also went three of them, one woman, I went first.
Like there, blue heaven, everything, I was whisteling, no worries, up there, like world champion,
I was making little balls of dirt -
I don't mean to offend women, but she was slow so I was provoking her,
and was throwing the balls down on her.
I gave her my helmet, I had an orange colored one,
and the seat, I was proud about it, an austrian seat, blue and orange
and one such green rope,
sharp green from France and also a purple one from West Germany.
I was such dasher, having all that, right,
so I was pulling those balls in 2000 meter height, no worries, and was throwing them at her.
- Maros, Maros! (his name)
- Yeah?
- Common, you hit me.
- Really? But that's what I wanted.
Well so I thought she comes, I was going gaily up.
Ten to twelve I looked at watch, it was so, it is engraved into me here and here,
I looked at the watch, I grabbed a surely sure solid hold,
and that got loose.
And like this turned my life.
When I went up gaily and slowly,
all of a sudden I went by accelerated movement, full of worries, down.
So, I yet even turned back and it came to me - excenter, three meters under me, that will catch me.
But it twisted, took off such block,
and like in that movie, like buttons on a shirt, so it started to tear,
ts ts ts ts ts - cut.
Last clinch caught all three of us The last one.
Had the last clinch not caught me, today there is someone else here.
The last one, last.
At a height of two thousand, about twenty meters drop.
You know, when I flew down, I was sure, this is death.
This is death, my God, this is death, this is how death looks like.
Oak head - not even remorse would come to me, I think, no remorse, nothing.
Normally, when I flew around the lad and girl,
I saw them, maybe four, five meters from me,
he was by her, or she by him,
he concealed her eyes, pressed her to chest,
I saw them and I think - God, let at least them be saved, my God.
I think, the end, this is my end, this is how death looks.
All of a sudden, the rope tugged,
all black,
so it swinged me, the left leg was broken instantly.
Next to the joint I had such green blue meat,
that was what it done to me, right,
and from the ankle over up to the ear like painted with jelly, with marmelade.
Everything scraped down, here, everything here up, from blood, up to the ear.
Great pain, sharply,
now the rope caught, the rope has caught me.
I shut eyes, now I'll get a stone, now, now.
I am stubborn enough, not one stone.
So it went round me - if you were in the mountains -
when kamzik goat or someone from up makes loose,
you only hear - fiush you do not even know what, it just, fiush fiush fiush
that is the sound.
I looked beneath, aaah, I did not look again.
The rope caught me, I am stubborn enough, not one stone hit me.
Huge pain, but I was ashamed, I was so proud, I knew there is a girl up there.
You will not hear me, you will not, not even a beep, not this one.
I put palms in two and I started screaming.
There I screamed fully, but inside, to palms.
And he thought I was dead, that friend, he made a standpoint,