Father Csaba’s reflection on the gospel..Friday 1 June 2018
It is not enough if you don’t do anything bad, it is not enough if you avoid sin, it is not enough if you rule out the possibility of making a mistake from your life ! Passivity, the sterile , barren life is bad, because you were born to produce fruit, lasting fruit ! Just because a garden has no weeds , that is not enough in itself, there should be valuable fruits , tasty vegetables growing in it, beautiful flowers should be blooming! Your richness is your fruit !!
Quieten down, slowly a day has come to an end , what was the fruit of your day, what is it that from the past week will remain for eternal life ?? What have you got in your hand , with what do you dare, can appear before God ! ?
With love,
Father Csaba
translated by dr k.e.
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Then he entered Jerusalem and went into the temple; and when he had looked around at everything, as it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.
On the following day, when they came from Bethany, he was hungry. Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see whether perhaps he would find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. He said to it, ‘May no one ever eat fruit from you again.’ And his disciples heard it.
Then they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who were selling and those who were buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold doves; and he would not allow anyone to carry anything through the temple. He was teaching and saying, ‘Is it not written,
“My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations”?
But you have made it a den of robbers.’
And when the chief priests and the scribes heard it, they kept looking for a way to kill him; for they were afraid of him, because the whole crowd was spellbound by his teaching. And when evening came, Jesus and his disciples went out of the city.
In the morning as they passed by, they saw the fig tree withered away to its roots. Then Peter remembered and said to him, ‘Rabbi, look! The fig tree that you cursed has withered.’ Jesus answered them, ‘Have faith in God. Truly I tell you, if you say to this mountain, “Be taken up and thrown into the sea”, and if you do not doubt in your heart, but believe that what you say will come to pass, it will be done for you. So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
‘Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses.’
Mark 11:11-26
Father Csaba’s reflection on the gospel..Friday 1 June 2018