For more than 70 years, CHF has been helping to preserve our community, regardless of the thousands of kilometers often separating individual Croatian groups. During the Easter holidays, we are aware of this more than usual. We are convinced that we will continue to help preserve and enhance the sense of closeness of our entire nation
Dear emigrants, members of Croatian minority communities in the surrounding countries, dear Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina!
The feeling of closeness and mutual connection with other people is a fundamental human need. Such feelings are the basis of our Croatian national identity. It enables us to meet these human needs in a community of millions of people both in Croatia and in the world. That is our Croatian hearth, the warmth of which is created by feelings and to which we always feel the need to return.
This is especially the case on those days of the year that we consider particularly important. Easter, the feast of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, is one such date, and perhaps the most important day on which we turn to the warmth of our community. That heat does not come from some external source, rather we create it ourselves. We can contribute to the ember of the common hearth regardless of the geographical distance and the time that has passed since leaving our original place of residence.
For more than 70 years, the Croatian Heritage Foundation has been helping to preserve and increase the warmth of our community’s feelings, regardless of the thousands of kilometers often separating individual Croatian groups. During the Easter holidays, we at CHF are aware of this more than usual. We are confident that we will help preserve and enhance the sense of closeness of our entire nation in the future.
While basking in the common feeling of warmth and light of Easter morning, I wish you a happy Easter on my behalf and on behalf of other employees of the Croatian Heritage Foundation.
Mijo Marić, director of the Croatian Heritage Foundation