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Resurrection of the Lord (C) – April 17, 2022

It is the greatest miracle in the world! Jesus rose from the dead to testify to the man that there is no obstacle that cannot be overcome by believing in God. We have probably found out about it many times. Remember how many times Jesus helped you when you were in need, when you put your trust in Him. Remember those times that were humanly hopeless, and everything ended well because you believed that Jesus would help you.

There were times when you came out of the grave of your sins to be resurrected and start your life anew with God. It was your miracle of resurrection by the power of Christ who rose first from the dead. This world will be better only when we will be better, when we have the courage to live God’s life. Then, when you live like this, you will be a witness of the Risen Jesus. We must live in such a way that Jesus will be not ashamed of us. We must to resurrect, to wake up and at all costs turn back from this wrong path of pursuit of material goods. Well, you will have many goods and you will not be happy. Your future – heaven or hell – depends on what kind of person you are.

At the final judgment, Jesus will ask you – what good have you done for others? He will not ask you how much you do have in your account, what kind of house and car you had. He will only ask you – did you have a heart for those with whom you lived. A wise man  asks God only for bread, so that he does not stop on his way to heaven, because he knows the time is short and there is nothing to strive to have, but to be. When you die, people will ask you how much have you left on your account? The Lord will ask you – what kind of man you were. I should live each day as if it would be my last. The Lord will knock unexpectedly to our door, and when He knocks you cannot say: Lord, maybe knock tomorrow because I didn’t have my confession yet, I haven’t reconciled with my brother yet, I haven’t fixed the wrong what I had done, I did not reconcile with my wife yet. We need to be vigilant so as not to sleep through the grace of meeting the Lord.

Jesus is alive. He lives in us through holy life. We cannot be like the soldiers guarding the tomb who slept through the moment of Christ’s resurrection. We cannot sleep through our lives. We must proclaim with our lives that Jesus is risen, that he is risen in you!

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Holy Saturday (C) – April 16, 2022

Today, a man can do nothing for God when he sees the empty cross and the stone at the tomb. Today man can only wait. It is true that this is a different expectation from that experienced by Mary, the Mother of Jesus or the Apostles. She waited with hope, believing in the miracle of her Divine Son. They waited without faith that anything else would happen in their lives that would help them overcome their fear and uncertainty for the future.

Today, after so many centuries, we already know what we are waiting for. Holy Saturday, this day of silence and reflection at the Lord’s tomb, is for us a time, if not blessed, then a very necessary time to look into ourselves, into our humanity, in our faith. Hence we have the variety of readings in today’s liturgy – God wants to remind us of everything from the beginning, once more. And we are to, by listening to all these biblical stories, give God another proof of who we are and where is our place. God wants us to re-declare our belonging to Him, initiated by baptism and the profession of faith, by the action of His Son and the saints in our lives, supported by the renunciation of what is bad and what distances us from Him. This Saturday liturgy is to confirm that we are His – Gods’ children and we want to remain with Him through our entire life. And after this Holy Saturday’s liturgy, tomorrow morning, we will stand before the empty tomb of God’s Son and find out that everything what God has promised us – had happened and that the empty tomb is the beginning of our eternity with God.

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Good Friday (C) – April 15, 2022

On Good Friday, the world stumbles once again over the dead body of the Convict of Golgotha. Stretched on the cross 2000 years ago, and yet almost a billion people stand by Him every day – celebrating the holy drama. The cross shows that Jesus’ agony, His suffering and death cannot be removed, talked about and forgotten. Jesus is crucified! He sees TOMORROW from the cross, although this tomorrow is stripped of Him today. God is in helplessness and suffering. He cannot be separated from the cross.

The paradox of the cross consists in this – as the Polish priest, Father Janusz Pasierb writes – that what was supposed to kill, gives life. The Middle Ages created a mystical cross – a green tree full of leaves, bearing the fruit of life – the body of Jesus. It is not only a universal lesson in understanding of the human fate, constantly passing through death to life, but also a practical teaching that a man is not doomed to crawl, but that he can do something even out of the dark layers of his suffering. Mahatma Ghandi, not elsewhere but from the Gospel took his basic idea that the suffering accepted voluntarily can be a method of liberation. The cross teaches us not to suffer, but to WIN”.

Jesus immersed in fear, darkness and uncertainty throws himself into the embrace of God. He is afraid of death, but also expects a new birth from it.” At the bottom of the fear, He sees the future. He sees eternity as an extensive green landscape.

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Holy Thursday (C) – April 14, 2022

Holy Thursday of the Lord’s Supper is the great with the greatness of the Gift – the Sacrament of the Eucharist, that is, the mysterious presence of Jesus Christ under the forms of consecrated bread and wine transformed into the real Body and Blood of Christ – the Food and Drink of Eternal Life. 

This Thursday is the great greatness of the Gift, which is the sacramental participation in the One Priesthood of the New Covenant by virtue of the sacrament of Holy Orders – the great dignity and ministry of priests in preaching the Gospel and administering the sacraments. Especially the Sacrament of the Eucharist, that is, making present the Death, Resurrection and Glory of Jesus Christ present for our and the world’s salvation.

Finally, this Thursday is Great with the greatness of the unsurpassed Love that Christ loved us, giving His life for us through His Death on the Cross, and a great illustration of the Commandment of Love that we love as we are loved: “If I, the Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you should wash each other’s feet. For I have given you an example that you should do just as I have done for you ”(John 13:14-15).

If we believe that God is Love, then we must also believe that the more we love, the more we are like God, the more we are of God’s. We may ask ourselves, are we capable of such love? It is the Gift of the Eucharist and the Gift of the Holy Spirit that makes us capable: “God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us” (Romans 5:5). “Do you understand what I have done to you?” (John 13:12)

God knows that we are threatened primarily by ourselves. By our own weakness, naivety, ignorance, and sometimes just our own thoughtlessness. That is why, when the fullness of time is accomplished, God decides to come to us personally. He knows that we really need to experience His presence and His love close. We need the visible love of the invisible God. Christianity is no doctrine, no ideology, no philosophy. Christianity is the story of the most extraordinary love of a God who lives, loves and teaches us to love.

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Fourth Sunday of Lent (C) – March 27, 2022

The good news we receive today is that in God’s heart there is a room for all people without exception. Even if we are weak and sinful, if we often fall and feel so small before God, we can count on His mercy. The first words of today’s Gospel invite us to look confidently towards a loving God.  Tax collectors and sinners were approaching Jesus to listen to Him. He welcomed everybody who were lost and sat at the table with them. We too can come to Jesus and taste His love, and strengthen ourselves with His forgiveness.

It is true – it is difficult to understand the patient love of the Lord, who, despite our constant failures, shows His mercy constantly. However, this is how God loves, and His love is different from ours, which often recalculates the balance of profits and losses. The merciful father in the Gospel’s parable does not give up his fatherly tenderness, waits patiently for his son’s return, meets him with open arms, gives him a feast for joy and dresses him in his best clothes. In short, he restores his son’s lost dignity. God also prepares such beautiful gifts for us. It is only necessary to constantly patiently return to the Father’s arms, because only there is love and forgiveness. St. Paul invites us: Be reconciled to God!

You can start all over again today. The old is passing away, and now something new, better, more beautiful is born. But will you take another chance given to you from God …?

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Third Sunday of Lent (C) – March 20, 2022

The example of the tree mentioned in today’s Gospel shows that we cannot speak of a guarantee everywhere.  Where there is an organism which – like this evangelical tree – lives its own life, it is difficult to speak of a guarantee.  There is only a silent hope: “it may bear fruit.”

The season of Great Lent prompts us to certain sacrifices, mortification, and various forms of penance. On the one hand, with coming of Lent, arises an anxiety of the vineyard owner in many hearts, who says: “I am coming and looking for fruit on this fig tree, and I do not find it”; on the other hand, you can hear the words full of determination: “one more year…maybe it will bear fruit.”

Today’s Gospel is part of the Lenten call to conversion. Perhaps this is a good opportunity to make an examination of your conscience about wasted opportunities and repeated promises. “It’s been three years since I’m coming looking for fruit,” says Christ … Isn’t it time to say to Him, “Lord, it’s still one more year year“. You have to find a little hope in you, some faith in God’s help and, quite simply, a little self-denial. When we use well our time of conversion, the joy of Easter will truly be the joy of life that bears the fruit that God seeks in it. 

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First Sunday of Lent (C) – March 6, 2022

The story of Jesus in the desert tells about temptations of the evil and how to overcome them. When we analyze Jesus’ answers, we find clues for our conduct. The desert is a symbol of man’s spiritual struggle. Jesus goes there full of the Holy Spirit. Before He begins the fight against Satan, He is filled with the power received from the Father. This fact means that then God allows us to be tempted, first He grants us His grace to face them. The first temptation is about our needs. Sometimes it seems as if there are things we couldn’t live without. The world of advertising further enhances this impression in us. Jesus does not reject our desires or needs, but He makes us realize that, as believers, we are to nourish ourselves by God’s Word. It contains the truth about our lives and answers to the most difficult questions. In the second temptation, Jesus straightens our thinking about the value system. Wealth, power or beauty are not the most important things in life. We should care more about cultivating a relationship with God, because our happiness depends on Him: “For what profit will a man receive, if he gains the whole world and suffers a loss of his soul?” In the third temptation Jesus reveals our dignity. It is a gift from God and no one can take it from us. Regardless of our sins, God always loves us and we are priceless to Him. It is worth to remember it as we begin the time of our conversion.

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Quinquagesima Sunday (C) – February 27, 2022

Hypocrite, remove the woodden beam from your eye …“.  A warning sent to all of us. Because in each of us there is a little, and sometimes even bigger, hypocrite who likes to admonish and rebuke others, often doing not better himself. But Christ wants us to see ourselves differently. First look on myself, then on others. That we would see our beam and really care about it, because it is a real danger for us.  Hypocrisy is like a small worm that bites from the inside and works systematically, destroying what is still healthy. And again we hear the words “a tree is known by its fruit ...”.  And it is worth to remember this Gospel phrase.  Because it allows us to look at others and see the truth in life and be sure that we are doing well ourselves.  Let us also see this hypocrite in us, and not let him dominate too much.

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Sexagesima Sunday (C) – February 20, 2022

Who enters an evangelical way of living must be prepared to meet enemies, which cannot be softened by adapting to their way of thinking and proceedings. Jesus was constantly surrounded by enemies focused on destroying Him. Neither did He gain them for Himself, nor did they win Him for themselves. Jesus’ disciples should go in the footprints of the Master. A disciple of Jesus should love even enemies. An enemy can use all sources: slander, calumny, gossips, violence, and Jesus’ disciple has only one answer – it is the goodness of heart filled with love. Such an attitude overgrown human opportunities requires a close relationship with Jesus. A Christian cannot destroy anyone, always should be focused to gain his opponent. It is about to win an enemy for God and His matter. Such love is fighting. Her victory consists on filling the heart of an enemy with love. Every day we say: Father, forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. Let’s ask ourselves, if our hearts are filled with love for our enemies?

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Septuagesima Sunday (C) – February 13, 2022

Blessings, today’s Gospel speaks about, it is Jesus’ encourage me to: firstly looked at my own misery, hunger, tears and contempt, with which I would come…, and secondly, I would look at the agglomeration of misery around me. With this look at poverty, God becomes the greatest value and treasure with His kingdom and the other man – my neighbor.

We can see how some people do everything to achieve wealth at all costs. They can do harm a neighbor for money in various ways. Just to such Christ says: “Woe”. Material goods should be drawn into the service of the Kingdom of God and the other man living next to me. Who adores these goods and uses them, not watching God and neighbor, this deserves “Woe.” Money is not cursed, but a heart which stuck to the money. Even the poor are not blessed if they think about the bread only, and never about God. The rich people are not cursed because they have everything, but because they don’t need God. We are not allow to use material goods for purposes of goals which are opposite to the love of God and man; you cannot get rich by using an uncertain situation of your neighbor. A Christian – with the spirituality of the poor – always feel in solidarity with the poor and hungry man, with a crying and persecuted … not because of humanitarian reasons, but because faith in the Merciful God, who gave His only Son to redeem all of us. Thus, the heart and a life attitude decide about the blessing and curse, not poverty or wealth.

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