Father Csaba’s reflection on the gospel …Wednesday 24 January 2018
On my birthday as a present I ask for peace in your hearts.
“ What remains after a war in the midst of where we are living ?”-asked Pope Francis . “ Ruins, several thousand children without education , innocent victims , and lots of money in the pockets of the arm dealers “
Christ sows good seeds in the world, but the seeds of peace are choked in our hearts by the many sinful desires , and this is why they do not spring up and bring a good yield ! Unfortunately we let our governments to prepare for wars, send mercenaries, to make good business from the money of the armament manufacturers!
I played with the thought what would the world be like if the superpowers would seriously think about peace and together would fight against ignorance, poverty , illnesses !? How different a place the world would be if that immeasurable amount of money spent on arms , would be used for the development of our world ?! How many new schools , hospitals , cultivated , sown fields would there be, how many new research centres, leisure and sport centres could be established if there would be no more wars !
Lets cleanse our hearts from hostilities, the infertile thorns of war covering everything! Lets not put up with the divisions around us, the wrangling, hatred, anger , because they are the seeds of war , that if they grow big they will kill our bodies , thrust our souls into eternal damnation !
On my birthday as a gift I am asking for the peace of your hearts ! Present me by chatting with each other lovingly and forget about each other’s debts ! Forgive the insults, hurts , and as good brethren , give me the flowers of joyful love springing up in your hearts !
With love ,
Father Csaba
translated by dr k.e.
Photo : With our children in Kisiratos.
4Again he began to teach beside the lake. Such a very large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat on the lake and sat there, while the whole crowd was beside the lake on the land. 2He began to teach them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them:3‘Listen! A sower went out to sow. 4And as he sowed, some seed fell on the path, and the birds came and ate it up. 5Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and it sprang up quickly, since it had no depth of soil. 6And when the sun rose, it was scorched; and since it had no root, it withered away. 7Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no grain. 8Other seed fell into good soil and brought forth grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirty and sixty and a hundredfold.’ 9And he said, ‘Let anyone with ears to hear listen!’
10 When he was alone, those who were around him along with the twelve asked him about the parables. 11And he said to them, ‘To you has been given the secret* of the kingdom of God, but for those outside, everything comes in parables; 12in order that
“they may indeed look, but not perceive,
and may indeed listen, but not understand;
so that they may not turn again and be forgiven.” ’
13 And he said to them, ‘Do you not understand this parable? Then how will you understand all the parables? 14The sower sows the word. 15These are the ones on the path where the word is sown: when they hear, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that is sown in them. 16And these are the ones sown on rocky ground: when they hear the word, they immediately receive it with joy. 17But they have no root, and endure only for a while; then, when trouble or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately they fall away.* 18And others are those sown among the thorns: these are the ones who hear the word, 19but the cares of the world, and the lure of wealth, and the desire for other things come in and choke the word, and it yields nothing. 20And these are the ones sown on the good soil: they hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirty and sixty and a hundredfold.’
Mark 4, 1-20
Father Csaba’s reflection on the gospel …Wednesday 24 January 2018