This is the 'Mucha Quartet' of Slovakia. It is performing a piece by one of the most famous musicians of this country, J\u00e1n Levoslav Bella.<\/p>\n
ANDREJ MATIS<\/strong> When he was 21 years old, Andrej decided to join Opus Dei and put his life at the service of God and the Church. A few years have passed and he will now become a priest along with 28 other deacons.<\/p>\n ANDREJ MATIS<\/strong> ANDREJ MATIS<\/strong> Andrej does not have a single favorite composer, but he is fond of Russian composers from the first half of the 20th century, such as Shostakovitch, Prokofiev, and Stravinsky.<\/p>\n As a priest, he will not spend the same amount of time on the violin, but with his new life as a priest, he will touch many people's souls.<\/p>\n The ordination will be on Saturday, Sept. 5. There are 29 new priests in Opus Dei from 13 countries. They will be ordained by Secretary of State, Card. Pietro Parolin. <\/p>\n JMB<\/p>\n Translation: CC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" September 4, 2020. \"I see a lot of continuity because music is a path that brings me closer to God, that brings God closer to my friends, and as a priest I would like to do the same,\" says Andrej Matis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/l_eQluZbXSs","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bcuraviolinistaeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bcuraviolinistaint.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n'When I was 15 years old, I decided to play the violin professionally and so I went to live in Bratislava, the capital of my country. There, in addition to receiving violin lessons, I met people from Opus Dei. It was there that I learned that music, besides being my professional vocation, can also be a path that brings me closer to God and brings my friends closer to God.'<\/em><\/p>\n
\n'My life has been an adventure. Like many adventure books, you don't know what's going to happen on the following page.'<\/em><\/p>\n
\n'My friends would ask me, 'Are you sure you want to give up music? You've dedicated a lot of time in your life to the violin. You've worked so hard, and now you're giving it all up to do something else.''
\n'I see a lot of continuity with what I did as an artist, and what I will do now as a priest. As I said, in the end, art, music, can be a path that brings me closer to God, and that brings God closer to my friends. As a priest I would like to do the same.'<\/em><\/p>\n