Daily gospel

Father Csaba’s reflection on the gospel Tuesday 30 January 2018

Jesus looks up and then raises the dead child from the dead and "told them to give her something to eat.”Matthew 5, 43 .

Jesus turns towards the children! The Master does not just love the children “romantically” but He puts everything aside , interrupts His journey , undertakes, accepts tiredness, the journey, everything , because somewhere a child is suffering , is ill , is in trouble ! It is amazing to see , that even though the parents also have given up on the child , Jesus does not give up , goes and saves the little girl! 

Today’s man is selfish , only pays attention to his own needs , and this spirit of the time , whether we want it or not permeates all of us , this is why simply we do not hear the voices of children in trouble ! With an intentional blindness we just wave our hand in resignation , this is a matter for the parents, for the doctors, for the child protection agencies , after all we pay our taxes so that they can take care of it ! Jesus could have also said that in the great work of saving the world there is no room for Him to run after all sorts of children , or because He is working on the sermon of the Mount , and for this reason He does not go anywhere , the parents, the school, the teachers should look more carefully after the children another time ! 

It is not enough to love the children only in abstract terms and trust the rest to the different systems , others, but one has to notice if an underage child is in trouble, or got lost, or became sick  or hungry and if even from their own faults they get into trouble , they still have to be helped ! Our Lord Jesus Christ bending down to the children in trouble should be our example , so for the sake of our children we should be able to put aside our work, our goals , and we should also get going with an attentive tenderness on the way of love ! 

With an anxious love for our children,

Father Csaba 

translated by dr k.e. 

When Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered round him; and he was by the lake. Then one of the leaders of the synagogue named Jairus came and, when he saw him, fell at his feet and begged him repeatedly, ‘My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well, and live.’ So he went with him.

And a large crowd followed him and pressed in on him. Now there was a woman who had been suffering from haemorrhages for twelve years. She had endured much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had; and she was no better, but rather grew worse. She had heard about Jesus, and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, for she said, ‘If I but touch his clothes, I will be made well.’ Immediately her haemorrhage stopped; and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease. Immediately aware that power had gone forth from him, Jesus turned about in the crowd and said, ‘Who touched my clothes?’ And his disciples said to him, ‘You see the crowd pressing in on you; how can you say, “Who touched me?” ’ He looked all round to see who had done it. But the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in fear and trembling, fell down before him, and told him the whole truth. He said to her, ‘Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.’

While he was still speaking, some people came from the leader’s house to say, ‘Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the teacher any further?’ But overhearing what they said, Jesus said to the leader of the synagogue, ‘Do not fear, only believe.’ He allowed no one to follow him except Peter, James, and John, the brother of James. When they came to the house of the leader of the synagogue, he saw a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly. When he had entered, he said to them, ‘Why do you make a commotion and weep? The child is not dead but sleeping.’ And they laughed at him. Then he put them all outside, and took the child’s father and mother and those who were with him, and went in where the child was. He took her by the hand and said to her, ‘Talitha cum’, which means, ‘Little girl, get up!’ And immediately the girl got up and began to walk about (she was twelve years of age). At this they were overcome with amazement. He strictly ordered them that no one should know this, and told them to give her something to eat.

Mark 5:21-43