Father Csaba’s reflection on the gospel Wednesday 28 February 2018
Who is the greater, the more important among us!?
Ambition, jealousy are one of the more serious cankers of our societies ! In one of our child protection homes the children coming home from school ran with great joy to a kind , young new carer and then went to the person in charge of the house with equal enthusiasm . Kisses were exchanged but I could see that the evil spirit of jealousy became embodied in the house ! Soon such tensions developed between the colleagues that I could bot solve ! What’s at the bottom of one or more decisions is hard to say , but it is certain that ambition and any injury in this gives rise to jealousy , rage in a lot of people . Jesus knows a way out of this sticky labyrinth :
"You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones are tyrants over them. It will not be so among you; but whoever wishes to be great among you must be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you must be your slave; just as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many."
In today’s world many want to become “great” by proving to others living around them that they are all like “dwarfs”,unfortunate , idiots ! Unfortunately many times we do everything possible so that our colleagues really become like that , to even appear as such , because we believe that by doing this we become irreplaceable giants, wonderful people ! Even though this is simply not the case , according the the logic of Jesus ,we’ll only become a valuable , grownup Christians , if the ones living in our vicinity also become saints , if they can also grow up by our side , that they can work by themselves , successfully , and their greatness is capable of making us great as well , to sanctify us !
This is why consciously we should want to be lesser brothers , may it give us joy to raise each other high ! As in all good teams lets help one another to score a goal , to score !
I have to know that our children or the success of my colleagues working as part of a team is our success! Their good deeds, the successes achieved by them , all of these raise me as the head of the family high , make me into a happy father , the trustworthy servant of Christ !
We were invited for serving love , let this be the goal in our lives !
With love,
Father Csaba
translated by dr k.e.
While Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside by themselves, and said to them on the way, "See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death; then they will hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified; and on the third day he will be raised." Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, and kneeling before him, she asked a favor of him. And he said to her, "What do you want?" She said to him, "Declare that these two sons of mine will sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your kingdom." But Jesus answered, "You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink?'' They said to him, "We are able." He said to them, "You will indeed drink my cup, but to sit at my right hand and at my left, this is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father." When the ten heard it, they were angry with the two brothers. But Jesus called them to him and said, "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones are tyrants over them. It will not be so among you; but whoever wishes to be great among you must be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you must be your slave; just as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many."
Matthew 20:17-28
Father Csaba’s reflection on the gospel Wednesday 28 February 2018