Father Csaba’s reflections on the gospel 

Monday 16 January 2017

“Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?”

 I believe that the most favourable  fast is in the presence of God, if we carry out our everyday tasks, our standing duties with honesty, diligently !! We do not need to discover anything exceptional, conspicuous , it is sufficient that if where we are, what we undertook , the student in the school, the teacher at his desk , the cook in the kitchen , the driver at the wheel, if everybody nicely, accurately , collected would do his share!!

Amidst all this lets  think about God’s first commandment : “Worship your Lord, your God !” God’s commandment is amazing, beautiful , a huge task  as it is not enough not to reprimand God, He expects us to love our Lord, our God sincerely! There are four kinds of prayers:  The prayer of supplication, the prayer of repentance, the thanksgiving prayer and the fourth , that we practice the least is the prayer of praise !! I feel should we have a thousand lives and we would devote every single life on praising God , we would still remain in debt to the Holy Trinity that out of love called us into existence !!

I encourage you lovingly , lets do everything in our power , that our whole day , all our work be the joyful praise of our dear God , let us pray joyfully as the bridegroom is with us !

Father Csaba

translated by dr k.e.

A Question About Fasting

 Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. And people came and said to him, “Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?” And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.  The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.  No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the patch tears away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made.  And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins—and the wine is destroyed, and so are the skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins.”

Mark 2, 18-22