Often it does not make sense to get down on our knees again and again, to try and embrace values , although they attract us , yet they seem to slip out from our hands , but grace purifies us and raises us up even when seemingly our purity seems to evaporate. Sinners, feeble, fallible , pilgrims perhaps we are the hundredth but we can  count on God , because our journey is fraught with danger and we have a great need for His help .

Father Csaba

translated by dr k.e.

Prayer in the Armenian church!

Aleppo 22 April 2018

Little Margit turned 9 years old yesterday....her wish was to have her ears pierced , well she got a nice pair of earrings from her carer, her grandparents rang her but unfortunately her mother and father could not even wish her a happy birthday. How much would that have meant for this little girl ? This is where the Saint Francis Foundation is doing a wonderful work , how can parents not appreciate their three beautiful daughters being brought up by the foundation.

Special thanks to Babi nevelő and others who made her day so special.

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To all our requests we should add , that not my will should be done but the Heavenly Father’s.

Unfortunately they are those who in their thoughts pray the Our Father : “my kingdom come , my will be done !” , who mix their own notions with a large amount of self- assurance , religious selfishness , quote passages taken out of context from the Holy Scripture and that is what  they call faith. God loves them as well , does not want their destruction, ruin , but again and again offers them the grace of conversion.

Father Csaba 

translated by dr k.e.

First holy communion of the  Catholic children of Aleppo Sunday 22 April 2018

Father Csaba

I do not think, that God would let difficulties, illness, worries , tragedies out of fun, it is not possible that He accidentally dosed off , and a painful event just happened to slip into one’s life, everything has a reason here on earth . He is not a sadist to find joy in our pains , but our wise Father , who would like us to grow up into eternity , and sitting together with Him at the one table He can share with us not only the joy of eternal life , but His divine wisdom, His caring goodness , His world forming power . 

For this at times we need God’s sculpting chisel , hammer . We have a need to be cleansed at times , to be free of our vainness , haughtiness , arrogance, and our eyes to be opened to the more profound truths .

Father Csaba

translated by dr k.e.

Your journey never ends, because God is infinite , and you need infinite time to roam  infinity - do not be anxious , you have time, you are immortal. Trust in your God who called you into existence and presented you with the miracle of the unfolding life  He wants in His wisdom, goodness, love , that you get to know everything, and you also experience the joy of existing, being. You are on a journey from the non-existence towards existence , every day is a gift so that slowly you yourself become a gift .

Father Csaba 

translated by dr k.e. 

Following Jesus Christ Saint Francis is my ideal , neither of them were renowned for sitting in one place or being “sour”.I also travel on my journey loving God, and the little ones , that God dictates to me through my Székely common sense , and I can humbly state that my life is not boring at all. The children call me either Brother Csaba or Father Csaba , and they do this genuinely . I think if they regard me as their brother or father , then there is no great problem , then they understood the heart of the matter .

Father Csaba

translated by dr k.e.

The Holy Eucharist is the food for the sinful, fallible man, the bread for the journey. A medicine, a balm for the aching wound . When one feels, insignificant, fallible , feels that the waves break over one’s head, then whom could we go to, where could we go ?! Our Lord says it so beautifully 28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11,28

We do not go to holy communion because we deserve it , but because without it , we would get lost, and God like,  a life-jacket for a shipwrecked , gives Himself , so that holding onto Him we may stay alive .

Father Csaba 

translated by dr k.e.

I am looking the disintegrating spring , in front of our home in Déva the flowering lilac bush ! The narcissus , the jasmin and the tulips have partially shed their petals , not long ado there was an inch of snow covering it , but behold the petals of the laburnum, the magnolia have already fallen down! The unceasing barrage of spring are besieging my heart, there is no stopping in nature , birth, bursting into bloom , and already the fruit is ripening , the blessed seed !" God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; “ Book of Genesis said our Heavenly Father at the dawn of Creation , before the Fall! And see , everything that lives keeps this commandment of God - no matter how adverse the circumstances are ! There is only one exception , man who wants to have fun , and because of all sorts of reasons postpones establishing a home , the holy duty of establishing a family , the acceptance of children ! 

Let us pray that we do not cause the loss of our human race by our timid coming to a holt or because of  chasing after the pleasure of partnerless existence !! No matter how saintly we may live , we can sit daily in our churches , but if we sin against the commandment of God regarding race preservation, self-preservation, if we don’t dare ,can’t or want to live committed , pledged by life either in a family or even in a monastic community , then as a lawbreaker God will push us away from Himself !

 A priest is called Father , the nuns are called Mother in the monastic orders and this is rightly so because all those who really serve life , they are all father and mother , they fulfil God’s very first commandment , they accepted life, they already have children !

Do not let life pass by you,

Father Csaba.

translated by dr k.e.