Father Csaba’s reflection on the gospel….
Tuesday 18 April 2017
“Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.”
How much naivety , simplicity and at the same time so much love, devotion is in this woman’s only sentence ! Early in the morning she is there at the grave and weeping looking for her Master ! She is rattling, knocking searching , not even giving a thought how much sense her words make , she simply just wants to see, find Christ !! For her it’s unimportant that on Holy Thursday He was betrayed , on Good Friday Christ was humiliated, broken, killed , she loves the “Rabbouni" and is attached to Him, even like this she would like to find Him, embrace Him !!
How great it would be if we also would love , search for our Lord Jesus Christ with this blazing love !! How great it would be if in my thoughts, words, deeds this great love of God would lead me !! Jesus from His flame gives every candle just the same amount of light , but the candle that has a larger wick is capable of accepting , carrying more flame , it glows more , it radiates more light into the world !! God loves all of us the same , but He certainly can, wants to give more to the ones who have in their hearts more longing , devotion towards Him. Let us open our hearts wider , nourish within ourselves with prayerful love an unquenchable love towards God and then it is certain , that our relationship with our Master will deepen, will be fulfilled and magnificent !!
May God’s love like the big rivers’ rising current fill our entire lives!
With love,
Father Csaba
translated by dr k.e.
But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb; and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had been lying, one at the head and the other at the feet.They said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.” When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?” Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.” Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She turned and said to him in Hebrew, “Rabbouni!” (which means Teacher). Jesus said to her, “Do not hold on to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord”; and she told them that he had said these things to her.
John 20, 11-18
Father Csaba’s reflection on the gospel….