Father Csaba’s reflection on the gospel Tuesday 3 April 2018 Jesus takes in Mary Magdalene .
Wake up call !! Humanity again and again as if struck down by a contagious disease , by a mass infection , at times like this the masses giving up all semblance of reality start chasing after a utopia !! After the events nobody understands where did the French go under the leadership of Napoleon but today we can no longer even understand why did so many people of sound mind, intelligent, move into so many castles in the air of fascism or communism without any reality , so that there for years they would be fighting for ideals, sacrificing everything that was leading to nowhere ? These sorts of “attempts”remind me mainly of the different whales when they “beach “themselves in large numbers and there they struggling for days before they perish" . What were they looking for on the shores , why did they undertake such a senseless road leading to nowhere , that forced them to perish and the members of the animal-protection society to undertake a huge operation!! The common denominator in both happenings is that here and there as well , the masses incensed by one another “march" into their senseless destruction !!
In Europe again a senseless sickly utopia flared up again ! Now some people want the “save" the third world countries by hauling them onto themselves !! Young people, elderly people , people who never travelled in the big world , but also people who received high qualifications mentally and physically are supporting and aiding the illegal immigration , in fact they see our future in that , if these people overrun us, and in mass move into our towns and villages !!
In the past days I sat down amicably and talked with several , otherwise sensible people who today would demolish the barriers protecting the Carpathian basin , so that anybody could come and go as they please ! I was astonished by this incredible naivety , this unfounded liberal utopia , by which they themselves as well, but based on their notion it would be our duty , that "endangering our existence we would en bloc swim out to the dry shore “!!
Jesus Christ took (accepted) in Mary Magdalene! The woman who was a sinner, not only repents, regrets her mistakes , stumbling but she also breaks away from her sins , lovingly looking for the company of Jesus !! Yes , Jesus includes this woman into the circle of His closest companions , whose many sins were forgiven , because she loved a lot !!
Nobody can accuse me of locking the door of my house ! During the last 25 years a vast number of people stepped over our threshold, there were some who only came for a visit , but close on six thousand people took advantage of and are still taking of our hospitality !! With all those who want to come in through our door , be it children or adults we sat down, had a chat trying to obtain as much information as possible, to get to know those with whom we shared our homes, our lives !! I tell them very clearly that here they have to work , I give them clothing , food and accomodation, but they in return have to study hard , be obedient , day after day they “train”so that slowly they can get back on their feet , to go where life takes them they can become “champions”!! To this effect we write a contract with them , that becomes null and void if they break it !! I do not let a child into my house, but consciously I take them in if they also accept these rules that are useful for them as well !! I believe that just letting someone in ,into a house, a country so there they can do what they want is not right and not allowable , but following the example of Jesus to take them into our lives , share our values lovingly with a stranger knocking on our door , even a reformed sinner is according to the will of God !
With love,
Father Csaba
translated by dr k.e.
Picture : children taken in, in Petrozsény .
Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb; and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had been lying, one at the head and the other at the feet. They said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him." When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?" Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away." Jesus said to her, "Mary!" She turned and said to him in Hebrew, "Rabbouni!" (which means Teacher).
John 20, 11-18
Father Csaba’s reflection on the gospel Tuesday 3 April 2018 Jesus takes in Mary Magdalene .