Father Csaba’s reflection on the gospel for today. 

John the Baptist is the first prophet of the New Testament !! He is not crying about the past , however he is looking into the tomorrows, i preparing the Lord’s way , straightening His path !! How great it would be if we spent less time with the passband more with the future ahead us !! Today everybody wants to be a historian , opening , tearing up old wounds , reminding people about painful insults, even though the one who keeps looking back all the time is going to have a great fall !! The future is ahead of us , the world is crying out for brave prophets !! Our Lord Jesus Christ in the sacrament of baptism wants to pass on, onto His children, the priestly , prophetic , the kingly calling!! He is not the God of mourning , bitterness but the Lord of life !! Let’s leave our dead to the dead and we put our hand firmly on the plough-handle and let us push it firmly into the earth, so it can tear out a life-giving  furrow for the tomorrow ! Man should not throw the towel in voluntarily , one has to fight for his own and his people’s life!! A few days ago I brought the 99 years old Father Antal to Kecskemét as he himself requested it, because he wants to write a book and he is seeking, asking for the doctors’ help to be able to continue his work !! I admire this elderly father because he is not giving up, practically  blind, deaf cannot really walk either  he would still like to compose his message , tell it to the young people , because he believes in the future of our beautiful world created by God , in the tomorrow and he is also are that this is only going to be built from prayer, joining forces and lots and lots of work !

With gratitude and love

Father Csaba 

translated by dr k.e.

Photo : Father Antal telling his physician about the structure of his new book.

And His disciples asked Him, saying, Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

Jesus answered and said to them, “Indeed, Elijah is coming first and will restore all things. But I say to you that Elijah has come already, and they did not know him but did to him whatever they wished. Likewise the Son of Man is also about to suffer at their hands.” Then the disciples understood that He spoke to them of John the Baptist.

Matthew 17, 11-13