Father Csaba’s reflection on the gospel ..Wednesday 18 April 2018
For living faith, just as for one’s existence one has to strive for !! For our weaknesses, setbacks always someone else is at fault : our parents, the teachers, the priests ,the mayor , the government , and if there is nothing else then the “circumstances”! There is always a scapegoat , we can explain everything ,but we are never responsible for our own destiny ! What sort of car is the one that only starts at 10 degrees but not at minus 25 degrees or plus 25 degrees ? A motor like this is unwanted !!
The plants, the animals are fighting for their own existence , it is man who leans back to be served in Mother’s Hotel ! You expect the school to solve everything for you , call in a psychologist , a speech therapist , a developmental pedagogue , everybody and you just lean back and let yourself to be carried around like a sack of potatoes! Even many of the adults do that ! I often see in amazement how many demonstrations, protests there are ! Always someone else is at fault !!! It is your duty you have to do it ! The sun is blazing or the wind is gusting , set the standard high and face the unknown ! Fight , it is possible that you may fail, but the coward, , protesting , whinging man will never become a champion ! You were born to fight , not to avoid the difficulties but to conquer them , because that will make a man out of you, it will harden your muscles , strengthen your willpower !
Unfortunately as far as faith is concerned as well there is a lot of whinging, , great indifference ! It is certain that everything is grace , but if you do not pick up the Holy Scriptures , if at least on Sundays you do not attend church, if you never kneel down in front of your God, so you can pray over with Him your everyday problems , if you do not receive the life-giving sacraments then don’t be surprised if your spirit becomes dried up and changes into a desert ! Unfortunately a prophet even today has no honour , just as in the times of Jesus in His own birthplace, He could not perform a miracle then and not even today as the Holy Scripture says - "He was amazed at their lack of faith.” Mark 6,6
If the blessed Virgin in Bethlehem would have been catered for in a guesthouse with running cold and hot water , if at least the Archangel Gabriel would have led them to Egypt , or Divine Providence would have paid child support for the Child to solve all their problems certainly their lives would have been much easier , but I think that Mary would have never become the Queen of Heaven ! Brooding over problems trying to find solutions , striving, struggles lift you up make you great , worthy of the company of the saints!
Avoiding the difficulties , struggles , looking for and finding the reasons for your own idleness, then not only here in this world you are a pitiful weakling , even if it is not your eternal life that is in danger as the Holy Scripture says :"So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth” Book of Revelations 3,15
Your are responsible for your own faith , life take your destiny into your hand ,
Father Csaba
translated by dr k.e.
Picture : Our children taking part in the stations of the cross !
Jesus said to them, 'I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe. Everything that the Father gives me will come to me, and anyone who comes to me I will never drive away; for I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day. This is indeed the will of my Father, that all who see the Son and believe in him may have eternal life; and I will raise them up on the last day.'
John 6:35-40
Father Csaba’s reflection on the gospel ..Wednesday 18 April 2018