Daily gospel

Father Csaba’s reflection on the gospel….Saturday 1 September 2018

..I would not like to live in a house that was taken away from others , nationalised ….

How can we best invest the talents given to us?! I know several people who perhaps in good faith moved into the properties of others that were nationalised during  communism . Over the years unquestionably they beautified, kept in order , even built onto the  original house , then came the changes and the original owner appeared , that either by nice words or by taking action in court wanted to reclaim their lawful property !! Unfortunately many human tragedies date back to this, that the house that was not built on Christ , clean honest foundations , but on all sorts of shaky ground , unclear swampy chaos! I am reading an attached writing :" In the  present area of Namibia there were uprisings between 1904-1908 against the colonising Germans. The armies of the German empire suppressed the unrest , and out of close to one-hundredthousand members of the Heroro tribe hardly ten thousand people were left alive , the Nama tribe and many other smaller tribes were practically wiped out. “ Infinitely sad lines ! One person, one nation is capitalising its wealth , through the suffering , blood of others !!

Walking across Székelyföld often it hurts me that it is lagging behind compared to other Western countries it is simpler , poorer and yet I am filled with unbelievable joy , peace here at home, in my precious homeland !! Here there is no foreign property !! Here every single haystack, barn , house, church , every but everything was born out of the industrious, sweaty labour of our people !!! Our people did not colonise or are colonising in the big , wide world we did not build, from obtaining by force , or improper trading, by trafficking arms , drugs , our schools, hospitals , public buildings but from the joining of forces of communities, parishes , villages by honest work! 

So visibly the talents entrusted into our care did not grow so spectacularly as with other nations , but what we have is ours ! Despite our weaknesses , insignificance humbly we can stand in the sight of God , because here in Székelyföld , the Carpathian basin there are no plundered treasures that would be stained by the blood of other nations !! For our sins we payed a high price !! For me these are very important facts ! This is one of the many reasons why I never moved to the West I would not like to live in a house that was taken away from others, nationalised afraid when when will they hand me a request for an account rendered !! 

With love, 

Father Csaba 

translated by dr k.e.

Photo : A Székely house in Oroszhegy.

‘For it is as if a man, going on a journey, summoned his slaves and entrusted his property to them; to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. The one who had received the five talents went off at once and traded with them, and made five more talents. In the same way, the one who had the two talents made two more talents. But the one who had received the one talent went off and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s money. After a long time the master of those slaves came and settled accounts with them. Then the one who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five more talents, saying, “Master, you handed over to me five talents; see, I have made five more talents.” His master said to him, “Well done, good and trustworthy slave; you have been trustworthy in a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master.” And the one with the two talents also came forward, saying, “Master, you handed over to me two talents; see, I have made two more talents.” His master said to him, “Well done, good and trustworthy slave; you have been trustworthy in a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master.” Then the one who had received the one talent also came forward, saying, “Master, I knew that you were a harsh man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter seed; so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here you have what is yours.” But his master replied, “You wicked and lazy slave! You knew, did you, that I reap where I did not sow, and gather where I did not scatter? Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and on my return I would have received what was my own with interest. So take the talent from him, and give it to the one with the ten talents. For to all those who have, more will be given, and they will have an abundance; but from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away. As for this worthless slave, throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

Matthew 25:14-30