Father Csaba’s reflection on the gospel Wednesday 19 September 2018
My grandmother’s sponge cake was the best in the world . I remember the wood stove’s purring , and as a child listening to the crackling of the fire, we the grandchildren were waiting for the nice cake to be ready. Grandmother never complained about the stove , the flour, eggs or other ingredients necessary for the cake , carried on with her work the best she could!! During the communist dictatorship she used the simple ingredients available during those needy times, on the old stove for her grandchildren to prepare the world’s best cake , because she loved us very much .
Over the past years we had many such children who did not do well with one or another carer , but when a switched on carer appeared and it turned out how clever, bright , resourceful the child was !! The years passed and the mischief-maker child became the foundation’s pride and joy . Yes the person who wants to explain their own inadequacies , they always find a problem, worry in the work entrusted to them , in the colleagues, in the surrounding, in “others” except in themselves they cannot find the “solution”.
Jesus’ contemporaries did not want to convert , step on the way of love and for their decisions they made Saint John the Baptist , but even Jesus Christ responsible. May God grant us that we don’t always look for faults in others , but using the given situation, opportunities given to us by God lets love those with with whom we live, work together . Lets not love humanity en-gros , but as individuals and especially those whom God sent our way . Their faults, their shortcomings or even their sins do not give us the right to get off the way of love . Lets not be choosy in the people, circumstances , but lets love those who are where I am , whom God presented me with !
With love,
Father Csaba
translated by dr k.e.
Picture: Pál Éva carer , with the children in her care.
Jesus said, 'To what then will I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like? They are like children sitting in the market-place and calling to one another,
"We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not weep."
For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, "He has a demon"; the Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, "Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax-collectors and sinners!" Nevertheless, wisdom is vindicated by all her children.'
Luke 7:31-35
Father Csaba’s reflection on the gospel Wednesday 19 September 2018