Daily gospel

Father Csaba’s reflection on the gospel….Wednesday 6 June 2018

"you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God” Mark 12, 18

We Christians, day after day  should have our eyes peeled to our Creator’s magnificent face . I am convinced that most of the problems either in our lives or in the lives of the people living around us that surface ,  arrise from the distorted , superficial pictures of God. We don’t know God’s mightiness , His shining , magnificent beautiful face that in the revelation He disclosed for us , and for this reason we are wandering in the dark , we live our lives badmouthing each other unnecessarily .

I encourage my dear brethren to quieten down , and contemplating the created world let us reflect upon the power of our creator God. The past days I watched a short film about DNA and it almost seems unbelievable that in all our cells , embedded in the chromosomes that are rolled into a spiral ,of approx 2meters  long, there is so much information stored , that if printed would fill a library of 6000 volumes of books . In one single cell how much information is stored then ?! Every person is unique , in a way that this can never be replicated  not only the colour of our hair , but every single thing is coded in a way, that these cells are born again daily, weekly, die, are changing . From the world of the minute things if we start out we can observe , with amazement the biodiversity , that the living things together produced the balanced animal and plant kingdom of the planet called Earth. The giant whale swimming in the oceans is also made up of tiny atoms, cells, travelling hundreds of kilometres looking for a mate that in its own way to bring life into the world and nurture it as a good mother her several hundred kilograms newborn ! Seeing all this , I admire it in an awe ! And if we raise our eyes towards the sky above us, are the sparkling stars . Using the Hubble telescope just concentrating on a black area the size of a stamp , during a long week gathering the lights taking pictures . In this tiny area the image of several thousand galaxies appeared , upon the analysing of which in each galaxy billions of stars are shining , around them planets, moons, comets . The scientists discovered to their great surprise that there are more stars in the universe than grains of sand in our worlds’ seas, oceans .

We really do not know God’s infinite power, wisdom , His caring goodness. I am convinced that even in our wildest dreams we cannot even imagine the might, power of our God who with a fatherly love , care sustains our world .

At the end of the school year with humility I go down on my knees and give thanks to this Infinite Goodness , who with infinite caring love this year as well provided our more than two thousand children the daily nourishment , clothing , school equipment , and protected us in this entangled world from all troubles , scandals . I am well aware that only by holding the hand of our caring God did we manage to arrive to the safe end of school year of 2018 . Praise and gratitude for everything ! 

Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

On bended knees ,

Father Csaba 

translated by dr k.e.

Picture: The district of Torockó 

Some Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus and asked him a question, saying, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us that 'if a man's brother dies, leaving a wife but no child, the man shall marry the widow and raise up children for his brother.' There were seven brothers; the first married and, when he died, left no children; and the second married her and died, leaving no children; and the third likewise; none of the seven left children. Last of all the woman herself died. In the resurrection whose wife will she be? For the seven had married her." Jesus said to them, "Is not this the reason you are wrong, that you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God? For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. And as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the story about the bush, how God said to him, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? He is God not of the dead, but of the living; you are quite wrong."

Mark 12:18-27