Daily gospel

Father Csaba’s reflection on the gospel….Monday 9 July 2018

"lay your hand on her, and she will live..”Matthew 9, 18

The man from Capharnaum believed that Jesus was capable to resurrect his daughter ! He believed that there was a solution to the troubles, worries, he believed that the present task can also be solved !!I believe in the power of prayer and that the persevering work will bring its own fruit , that it is worthwhile to set our goals, because we can achieve them here in this world!?

Thank God we have many wonderful carers , but perhaps one of the most successful one out of them is the carer Krisztina , today I would like to praise her publicly also !! Years ago she took Ádi in from a fallen-apart Roma family from Szászváros ! Like every other boy he was also much more interested in soccer, friends then studying ! But Krisztina heard the lesson every day from the boy who was getting a  head taller than her ! There was the devil and hell to pay if she caught him idle instead of getting ready for his exams. “You did not go to school for 12 years -said the carer- that now getting near the end you give up and you don’t succeed in your exams !” During the last two months neither the carer nor Ádi went anywhere , only studying, every night sport , running , rest and in the morning it started all over again !! Poor Ádi was just blinking and studied . In the exams he got good marks for everything , but in maths he was just a few percent under a five !! There was great sadness !! Unfortunately in Déva this year nobody was successful in their matriculation, “ not even Ádi “ a few remarked , perhaps with a pinch of gloating ! Krisztina did not say anything , because she believed in their work  but went to contest the result, and asked them to remark  the written exam !! They went to pray every day , waited and based on the decision of an independent commission the pass mark was granted !! Great ! 

I would also like to praise Ádi publicly for trustingly taking his carer’s hand  and staying away from his contemporaries’ having fun, he settled down to study , fight , believing that together with his carer he is capable to break free from the slums, poverty, and being the first one from his big family with honesty, successfully pass his life’s first important exam !! I thank the carer Krisztina for not looking at the colour of the skin , background of the children entrusted to her , she took Ádi in into her small 3 room apartment with nine other boys !! I thank her that for not sparing herself often holding the hand , at times the ear of the child in her care lead him to the gate of life written in capital letters !! It was a work well done you both deserve the  well-earned vacation !!

With love,

Father Csaba 

translated by dr k.e.

Picture of Krisztina with the two “big boys” in final year. Ádi is on the right hand side !

While he was saying these things to them, suddenly a leader of the synagogue came in and knelt before him, saying, ‘My daughter has just died; but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live.’ And Jesus got up and followed him, with his disciples. Then suddenly a woman who had been suffering from haemorrhages for twelve years came up behind him and touched the fringe of his cloak, for she said to herself, ‘If I only touch his cloak, I will be made well.’ Jesus turned, and seeing her he said, ‘Take heart, daughter; your faith has made you well.’ And instantly the woman was made well. When Jesus came to the leader’s house and saw the flute-players and the crowd making a commotion, he said, ‘Go away; for the girl is not dead but sleeping.’ And they laughed at him. But when the crowd had been put outside, he went in and took her by the hand, and the girl got up. And the report of this spread throughout that district.

Matthew 9:18–26