Beautiful and heart-wrenching. Thank you for sharing Fr. John Bolek. We walk by faith and not by sight. God Bless you and your ministry. 🙏📿✝✝

Thank you so very much, Fr. Eric Bolek for pouring out alll the heart-wrenching details! Truly God is soooo merciful! You are HIS Treasure for humanity!✨️ Rest in peace Mama Bolek🙏 Thank you for your gift of The LIfe and Gift of Fr. Eric Bolek🙏 ✨️🌹 Praying even 7 Sorrows in union with The 7 Sorrows of Our Lady is so powerful, healing and strengthening 🙏🙏🙏

We had the pleasure to meet Father Bolek In LaSalle parish

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When the ill will of others harm us and pierce our hearts, our hearts too can become ill, especially if this happens to us when we are vulnerable like in childhood. Some people manage not to take the harm done to them to heart. I suppose taking bad things to heart and letting them deeply effect us depends on the degree of harm done, how intimate one is with the one doing the harm, and the underlying disposition of the one being harmed. Thus, children severely harmed by their own parents take it to heart more than an adult of sound mind would take little harm done by a stranger. The greater the harm done, the more intimate the relationship, and the more emotionally unstable the one harmed, the more likely the one harmed will take it to heart, feel their heart pierced, or receive a broken heart for it. When people do take bad things to heart and their heart becomes ill and hurting, why do some people respond with ill will towards others or towards themselves and hurt others or further hurt themselves, whereas some people keep the hurt to themselves without hurting others or themselves any further? Is it because they have different underlying dispositions? Can the hurt done to us make us poor in spirit instead of depressed in spirit? Can the hurt done to us make us poor in spirit instead of angry in spirit? There seems to be two different types of ill hearts. One type of ill heart aches, experiences sorrow, and might get depressed, but doesn't have ill will because of the harm done. Another type of ill heart does become ill willed and further hurts others. The sickness in the soul turns evil. I like to think that for every physical healing Jesus did a corresponding ailment in the soul was also healed. There are lameness, blindness, deafness, and leprosy of the soul besides of the body. These poor souls were ill, but not necessarily evil. Jesus also healed demon possessed souls who were evil. He can heal the two types of ill hearts, ie, those with sorrowful souls and those with ill wills. In either case, the soul can be saved. Forgiveness helps both the one hurt besides the one who did the harm. It's healing.