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Thursday 19 January 2017

b_300_300_16777215_00_images_stories_Szep_16113019_10207548363327934_5225279401170920948_o.jpgFather Csaba’s reflection on the gospel..
Thursday 19 January 2017
Interestingly enough , Jesus does not change the world from “up there”  neither from the inside, after all He could have been born into a well-to-do priestly family and following the example of Saul He could have studied in one of the famous school  training rabbis , but we could say that he started from the outside and from the bottom, so He could pour the new wine into a new wineskins! Often He is asked by whose authority is He carrying out His task , who entrusted Him with that ? Jesus does not fit into the earthly hierarchy of those times that is why He has to heal, teach in secret , keeping out of the way! In fact this is also the problem with the apparitions, visions of Mary as well, in Fatima where the Church  will be celebrating the 100 year anniversary , Lourdes, Medjugorje but even here in Transylvania in Szőkefalva , where Mary appeared to an uneducated woman from a Roma background , God does not take into consideration our human so called system of power, He , the great Lord  gives grace wisely and generously to the one ones He sees fit and when the time is right !! God grants His graces to the ones the He considers are worthy of them !
I am praying from the bottom of my heart , that God’s active power becomes evident in our times as well, that He’ll lead us with a firm hand , outstretched arm on the path of salvation!
With love ,
Father Csaba 
translated by dr k.e.
Jesus departed with his disciples to the lake, and a great multitude from Galilee followed him; hearing all that he was doing, they came to him in great numbers from Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, beyond the Jordan, and the region around Tyre and Sidon.  He told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, so that they would not crush him; for he had cured many, so that all who had diseases pressed upon him to touch him.  Whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and shouted, ‘You are the Son of God!’  But he sternly ordered them not to make him known.
Mark 3, 7-12