Daily gospel

Father Csaba’s reflection on the gospel 3rd Sunday of Lent 4 March 2018

‘Zeal for your house will consume me.’ John 2, 13

There are many coldblooded Christians ! Lets not turn on others , but first of all I should cleanse my own body , the temple of the Holy Spirit ! If Jesus would enter into my heart today what would He find there ? Are faults, transgression , sins that live in me ? Whether do I dare , can I by repentance willingly  make a whip and cleanse my own heart , spirit ?

Secondly should not I put my own house in order ?! Are my dearly beloved ones living in peace, harmony, whether their only lives are not sullied by some sort of bad habits, sinful omission , liaison ? Lets not live together with the evil one ! Lets not regard it as acceptable , either in my own, or my family’s life to let sin set up home !Lets cleanse my own sanctuary and lets decorate it by beautiful virtues !

Naturally I would like to cleanse people’s temple as well ! Now before the election , I would like to sweep out the sin of discord, dissension before anything else !!! The lust for power , the divisions arising from greed from my people’s lives , that discord , which is not about standing up for a set of values , but only that someone wants to rule even if it has been proven that they are unsuitable for the post ! Not the person has to be banished but the spirit of dividedness from mankind !!!Lets not kick over the lego put together by others , but lets make my own mark, my productive principals, ideas present them to the public , so through me the world, the big family of the Carpathian basin will be more, more beautiful, more precious ! 

I would sweep out the spirit of betrayal from the temple of my people , also that certain people not out of conviction , but out of a thirst for power , because of  their momentary financial gain stand behind one or more causes ! 

Last spring I was at the border of Nineveh where the battle of the big city of the two million people was still going on ! I can still see even now the smoke that painted the magnificent blue eastern sky black , at  many points in this big city set ablaze ! In the summer of 2015, 1500 ranting young people appeared dressed in black, started whizzing past in white Toyota jeeps . Who gave them the cars, the weapons into their hands is not known, but within hours hundreds of thousands young people filled the streets, the ruling powers fled and the “revelry” started, the "glorious “ fighters ransacked the houses , the shops , and the state of Islam was born ! What has become of it ? The revolution devoured its sons ! I saw the mass graves they are in the vicinity of the freed cities, villages borders , in their parks, in their football fields , where the victims of this dissension have been buried ! One irresponsible political adventure set the whole city , the country back into the middle ages !

I am praying for my people to be wise and support a political system  that builds, gives peace, unity , will protect together with their citizens the values, and the borders !

With love,

Father Csaba 

translated by dr k.e.

The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the money-changers seated at their tables. Making a whip of cords, he drove all of them out of the temple, both the sheep and the cattle. He also poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. He told those who were selling the doves, ‘Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father’s house a market-place!’ His disciples remembered that it was written, ‘Zeal for your house will consume me.’ The Jews then said to him, ‘What sign can you show us for doing this?’ Jesus answered them, ‘Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.’ The Jews then said, ‘This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and will you raise it up in three days?’ But he was speaking of the temple of his body. After he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this; and they believed the scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.

When he was in Jerusalem during the Passover festival, many believed in his name because they saw the signs that he was doing. But Jesus on his part would not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people and needed no one to testify about anyone; for he himself knew what was in everyone.

John 2:13-25