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Asked by the Duma how he decided to serve God, the church and accept this call at a very young age, Dom Gjergj Meta said that it is difficult to define exactly what happens in those moments and that it serves life that certain things remain a mystery.
"The moment I decided to make such a decision, my father says 'why?!' I want you to become a doctor and after you finish medicine, go. Decide then.' I tell him, but I have the call now. "Then explain this call to me because I don't understand," he says. This is the problem, I told him that even I can't explain it now that he is asking me ", said Dom Gjergj Meta.
The Catholic priest of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Tirana - Durrës explained that the call is like an internal force, an impulse that sometimes does not have a rational motive.
Duma: I have seen little or nothing about who your calling was to become a priest. '95, '96 started...
Duma: '95, '96 began your formal education to serve the church in a completely religious, ideological way, while today you are a high clergyman, a high functionary of the church and a very referenced man in terms of faith and very accepted in the wide Albanian population, so much so that both those who are Muslim and those who are Catholic follow it closely. How did it happen that you decided to serve God, the church and accept this call?
Dom Gjergj Meta: I'm trying, I'm trying because there are some things in life that the more time passes, the more they become inexplicable, how at a young age I made the decision to start this journey. This happened from '93, '94, so it is about 30 years ago and 30 years is a good age.
There were several months in which I thought, reconsidered, spoke, did not speak, remained silent, so that even the parents in the family became worried with the idea 'what's up', until I told them sometime in January 1994 that I want to follow this road. Sometimes I think that some things have a lot to do with youthful growth, like when a person decides to get married, or decides to go to university, but life, the journey in this case is long and brings you many beautiful things but also difficulties. and obstacles. That's why I say that the more time passes, the more difficult it is to determine exactly what happened in those moments.
It was the rational element, because at that time I had several points of reference, people who followed me closely, people who were clerics who gave me a very good example, but I also had the history of the Catholic Church of Albania, all those priests who had been killed, that had been shot, and at one point I said that I would replace one of these.
Dom Gjergj Meta: Yes, this is the rational element. The one on the surface that I seem to have always worked out in my mind. Then there is always something inexpressible, unspeakable, something that must remain a mystery because I myself have a mystery, to myself. No matter how hard I try to explain it, it remains a mystery to others as well, how a young man decided to receive a specific vocation in his life and in this case become a priest. So to sum up his life.
Duma: The moment you received the call and I'm not telling you the age...
Dom Gjergj Meta: I was 18 years old, somewhere around 17-18 years old.
Duma: I believe that every person as a creature should have a calling, and one of the things with the new generation is that they try to make something explainable to others. What you said now 'let it remain a mystery' is one of the best answers that young people who have their lives ahead of them should get. So the moment you feel something, it is unnecessary to explain everything, it is unnecessary if you decide to listen to this thing.
Dom Gjergj Meta: There must definitely remain something in us that should stay there undiscovered, it serves life. The moment I decided to make such a decision, my father says 'why?! I want you to become a doctor and after you finish medicine, go. Decide then.' I tell him, but I have the call now. "Then explain this call to me because I don't understand," he says. This is the problem, I told him that even I can't explain it now that he is asking me.
Dom Gjergj Meta: It's like an internal force, it's like an internal drive, it doesn't have a rational motive sometimes.
Duma: What is similar to this? Love.
Dom Gjergj Meta: I think so, I think that when you fall in love with someone, it is often not rational and there is no 'yes because'. Because we as human nature are rational.
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