Father Csaba’s reflection on the gospel Sunday 30 September 2018 Sunday , Memorial of the Holy Scriptures.
"For truly I tell you, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you bear the name of Christ will by no means lose the reward.” Mark 9, 38
Looking at the pictures taken of the happy , smiling faces of our children from our different child protection homes in Transylvania and in the turmoil of the Arena , my heart is filled with gratitude towards those who bent down with love, goodness and welcomed these young people drifted away from their families, with this wonderful experience . Who could say how many glasses of water our children received between the 12-16 September in Budapest !?
It is good to be good ! ! Together to give thanks to our Creator , from whose kind-heartedness we received all that we have is joyful and good ! To teach our children to give thanks joyfully for all that we receive day after day is the most important task of every teacher ! This joyful gratitude that I feel , that fills me that makes our faces more beautiful , turns our glances towards each other , give meaning to our work and leaves a good taste in our mouths for life, to start again tomorrow , to move on !
Our gathering in the Aréna for me in putting it in the most appropriate word was a joyful praise of God , of our big family gathered from so many different places , a psalm of the XXI.century with its own colourful bustle !
May God grant us that such and similar events to this thanksgiving, may fill our schools, our villages, our churches !!
With love ,
Father Csaba
translated by dr k.e.
John said to him, ‘Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he was not following us.’ But Jesus said, ‘Do not stop him; for no one who does a deed of power in my name will be able soon afterwards to speak evil of me. Whoever is not against us is for us. For truly I tell you, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you bear the name of Christ will by no means lose the reward.
‘If any of you put a stumbling-block before one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be better for you if a great millstone were hung around your neck and you were thrown into the sea. If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life maimed than to have two hands and to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire. And if your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life lame than to have two feet and to be thrown into hell. And if your eye causes you to stumble, tear it out; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and to be thrown into hell, where their worm never dies, and the fire is never quenched.
Mark 9:38-43, 45, 47-48
Father Csaba’s reflection on the gospel Sunday 30 September 2018 Sunday , Memorial of the Holy Scriptures.