Father Csaba’s reflection on the gospel…

Friday 13 January 2017

My Lord today those four men are  my ideals , who brought their paralyzed companion trustingly into Your presence!! I pray today with loving prayer for the soldiers who have been ordered to the front and have fallen ! In those  days I was also conscripted into the Romanian army , they placed a weapon in my hand and took me in winter in the big snow to dig a trench ! We did not have a choice either, just like the people who were sent onto the battle fields  between 1940-1945 , during world war II , to kill, to die !! Many young people were taken against their will to the  Don kanyar , just as the troops fighting on the other side in the Soviet army!!! The “greats” of the world have not learnt much from all the bloodshed , today as well many people, among them innocent children are forced onto the battlefields to kill or to be killed ! Our Lord we bring with pure heart into Your holy Presence the fallen young soldiers , although it may be possible that their hands may be stained with blood, we still pray for them , grant them in Your mercy and love, peace , eternal rest in Your kingdom !

With hope in the eternal life,

Father Csaba

translated by dr k.e.

Jesus Forgives and Heals a Paralyzed Man

A few days later, when Jesus again entered Capernaum, the people heard that he had come home.  They gathered in such large numbers that there was no room left, not even outside the door, and he preached the word to them. 3 Some men came, bringing to him a paralyzed man, carried by four of them. 4 Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus by digging through it and then lowered the mat the man was lying on. 5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralyzed man, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”

Now some teachers of the law were sitting there, thinking to themselves,  “Why does this fellow talk like that? He’s blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

Immediately Jesus knew in his spirit that this was what they were thinking in their hearts, and he said to them, “Why are you thinking these things?  Which is easier: to say to this paralyzed man, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, take your mat and walk’?  But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.” So he said to the man, 11 “I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home.”  He got up, took his mat and walked out in full view of them all. This amazed everyone and they praised God, saying, “We have never seen anything like this!”

Mark 2, 1-12