Daily gospel

Father Csaba’s reflection on the gospel Tuesday 13 March 2018

‘Do you want to be made well?’ John 5,1

Our physical ailments we can all feel, indeed many times one tends to overreact paying  too much attention to one or more of our illnesses !! 

We carry our spiritual problems around quite happily often not even noticing how deep wounds we are carrying within ourselves !!During the holy time of Lent we should become more aware of our sins , map out our inclinations to lead us astray and we should start a revolution ! Lets win our spiritual freedom !!

In the event if a poisonous snake bites us , we run to the doctor straight away and fight for our lives !! If the evil spirit deceives us and leads us into sin , we tend to lie low , thinking if our brethren cannot see our sins , then they don’t even exist ! Even though the poison of the snake is within us , our upbringing , faith does not effect it , quietly continues on with its destructive , devastating effect !! Sin does this as well , it takes away ,our flexibility, our liveliness , good mood, our hopes , faith cast in the tomorrow and finally it extinguishes all love that exists in us !! Carrying our empty , sullied , human frame we live an unproductive life !!

Lets look for a cure !! In the sacrament of reconciliation our Redeemer creates us anew !! He says "You are My Son; today I have become Your Father. “ looking into our eyes. Yes the meeting with Christ gives us life, , every sacrament is God’s creative act ! The sick man  who has been ill for thirty eight years is cured, do you believe that  there is a remedy for your sin, that God can create you anew as well ?! He is capable to give everything back that sin took away, if you ask for His love and on top of it all He lavishes you with graces of the converted man !

Convert and you will live ,

With love,

Father Csaba.

translated by dr k.e.

Photo: The tabernacle in the chapel of the Padre Pio house, Székelyudvarhely .

After this there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, called in Hebrew Beth-zatha, which has five porticoes. In these lay many invalids—blind, lame, and paralysed. One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, ‘Do you want to be made well?’ The sick man answered him, ‘Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; and while I am making my way, someone else steps down ahead of me.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Stand up, take your mat and walk.’ At once the man was made well, and he took up his mat and began to walk.

Now that day was a sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, ‘It is the sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your mat.’ But he answered them, ‘The man who made me well said to me, “Take up your mat and walk.” ’ They asked him, ‘Who is the man who said to you, “Take it up and walk”?’ Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had disappeared in the crowd that was there. Later Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, ‘See, you have been made well! Do not sin any more, so that nothing worse happens to you.’ The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. Therefore the Jews started persecuting Jesus, because he was doing such things on the sabbath.

John 5:1-16