Father Csaba’s reflection on the gospel….Monday 30 October 2017
"Hypocrites !” Luke 13, 10
Stern talk ! Jesus points out sincerely how things are , He does not mince His words , but He states the truth openly about a person’s fault , there in front of all ! Today we live in a" politically correct world “, we tend to be refined, we smudge the truth , we try to obscure it because what is important not to have conflicts , tension ! Unfortunately we turn a blind eye not only to our own faults but also to the faults, sins of our fellow human beings , saying “it’s their business” , “it has nothing to do with me “, even whilst we can see that either our friend or even our own child is drifting step by step towards a precipice threatening to swallow them…..What would happen if doctors would act the same way only so that the sad truth does not shock the sick person?! Or if architects carrying out their task would only pay attention to the expectations of sensitive people and not to laws "set in concrete " concerning the building’s statics !
We would like to diminish God’s commandments, the laws governing moral life to make them relative, to downgrade them to subjective truth , but the ten commandments is eternal , not even a letter can be removed from it ! Our moral lives are also determined by such objective laws just as our physical health or the structure of a building!
Like it or not sin destroys , kills, good deeds undertaken out of love will heal, give life , that is why humbly , with a desire to help we have to be open, honest ! Yes kindheartedly we have to call hypocrisy as hypocrisy , stealing as theft, laziness as laziness , fornication as fornication, sin as sin , even if people will get offended by us or even if we'll have more serious consequences in life !
Love means honesty,
Father Csaba
translated by dr k.e.
Jesus was teaching in a synagogue on the sabbath.
And a woman was there who for eighteen years
had been crippled by a spirit;
she was bent over, completely incapable of standing erect.
When Jesus saw her, he called to her and said,
"Woman, you are set free of your infirmity."
He laid his hands on her,
and she at once stood up straight and glorified God.
But the leader of the synagogue,
indignant that Jesus had cured on the sabbath,
said to the crowd in reply,
"There are six days when work should be done.
Come on those days to be cured, not on the sabbath day."
The Lord said to him in reply, "Hypocrites!
Does not each one of you on the sabbath
untie his ox or his ass from the manger
and lead it out for watering?
This daughter of Abraham,
whom Satan has bound for eighteen years now,
ought she not to have been set free on the sabbath day
from this bondage?"
When he said this, all his adversaries were humiliated;
and the whole crowd rejoiced at all the splendid deeds done by him.
Luke 13, 10-17
Father Csaba’s reflection on the gospel….Monday 30 October 2017