Father Csaba’s reflection on the gospel…

Tuesday 17 January 2017.

Székelyföld wakes up to a beautiful cold morning with snow covering everything . Am I able to rejoice in what there is ? Today’s gospel talks about the disciples   consuming the  heads of wheat they picked along the way. According to Jesus’s word because they are hungry! It is worthwhile to reflect on the God’s divine caring goodness ! The One who multiplies bread and fish for five thousand strangers , in Cana gave several hundred liters of good vine to the ones attending the wedding feast, that One only gives His disciples the grains of wheat picked from the side of the road ? Yes because by His divine dispensation He saw that fit  there and then ! 

With a childlike trust we have to accept all that we get. In winter the cold, the snow is God’s gift , we have to rejoice in that, in spring the rain is the gift that  brings us new life , in summer the heat that ripens the wheat, in autumn the passing ,colouring  everything rust brown ! All that we do not know or that we do not even have to change is God’s precious gift ! Our Creator  wisely knows the order of our world and gives us magnanimously all that we have the greatest need for ! Lets accept ourselves, our surrounding humbly and not following the example of a spoiled child lets not whinge, lets not be indignant because this world is like this or that ! With the help of our Lord Jesus Christ lets pick up the ear fallen by the side of the road for us and lets keep up our existence joyfully, in high spirits the way as his Holy Majesty sees it fit !

With love,

Father Csaba

translated by dr k.e.

Photo :Borzsova , Dr. Fodor István. 

Jesus Is Lord of the Sabbath

One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and as his disciples walked along, they began to pick some heads of grain.  The Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?”

He answered, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need?  In the days of Abiathar the high priest,he entered the house of God and ate the consecrated bread, which is lawful only for priests to eat. And he also gave some to his companions.”

Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”

Mark 2, 23-28