Monsignor Josef Mixa

“I started teaching at a high school here in 1990. There were a few young people interested in Christianity so I visited them, I had classes there. Subsequently they started working with me. They met their partners. If they weren’t baptised I would also baptise them. New marriages, new children. I have already baptised about sixty kids born to these couples that I taught at this high school. And they’re doing great to this day. (“That’s a huge achievement.” – coordinator Lukáš Květoň, ed. note). That was also in Prague but on a much bigger scale. What’s interesting is that these people still keep in touch with me and now during the ninetieth anniversary the church was full of these people of mine and little children came to participate. Those are children of the children that I raised here.”

“I was finishing a business school. The final exams were around the corner and I was baptised in 1948. I was 23 so that was quite late. And a year later I participated in the last seminars in Morava, before the communists closed everything down. During an evening prayer I was sitting next to my love, my childhood love… well, a childhood love and I heard a voice: “You shall be my priest.” I thought it was nonsense. I thought it was a hallucination or something like that and I refused it. But I was very stupid back then even though I was already baptised, because I didn’t realise that when God says the words, the deed is already done and just waiting for man to agree.”