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The struggle against religion and faith in God has been waged since the 19th century in philosophy and the natural sciences. Man has been reduced to machine and physiology. It has been claimed that the spirit is only a manifestation of matter, and that the human brain excretes thoughts like the liver of bile. Darwin came up with the idea of evolution. Many thought. We have everything explained. And without God. How pathetic this way of thinking was. As if someone was saying that we no longer needed to attribute the car’s origin to the designer because we discovered that the car was moving by burning gasoline. Whether there was a development or not, whether we have already discovered individual physiological processes in the human body, or whether we have already discovered the pattern of nervous activity. The crucial question remains. Who arranged the structure, called the car, who set the fantastic design, the system with consciousness and thinking, called man. The essential questions around man existed and therefore continue to exist. There are also questions about God and the question of human religion. All these great questions of man sought to refute the natural sciences and the particular sciences of the human psyche – psychoanalysis and the psychiatrist. The first anti-religious stimulus was given to these sciences by Sigmund Freund, who declared religion to be a disease state of man and a manifestation of neurosis. Freud said that religious ideas are the fulfillment of the most vital and most urgent desires of humanity. The believer can also agree with that. But why should these desires be just an illusion? Why should God be just a projection of these desires? Why can’t He exist as a being that man desires? Why should religion be just an empty desire, and why should it just create the human mind? Why should human desire not be born because God, the originator of the world and man, is encouraged? Indeed, out of the very desire for God and eternal life, it cannot yet be concluded that there is a God and eternal life. But it also cannot be supposed that God and eternal life do not exist.

All Souls’ Day 2021 B.
Introduction
The cemetery is not one of those places we enjoy going to. Nobody rushes there; it is more likely to leave the graveyard quickly. We go there out of awe to our neighbors, and I think I’m telling the truth about that. In the cemetery, in front of the graves, we feel strange. We become aware that we have no solution to death, and that makes us insecure.
Sermon
Questions arise: Where is the goal of our life? What is the meaning of our life? What will happen to our dead? Where are they? We cannot answer these questions with our knowledge, and we can only answer them out of our faith. When we talk about our end from the perspective of God, we are talking about a beginning. In our opinion, we are approaching the future; we call it death; from the point of view of faith, it is the beginning of a new life. Isn’t that a paradox?
God loves us, and our mistakes and sins are not an obstacle for him either because he loves us so much. We always have the opportunity to start over, i.e., to renew our relationship with God. Faith in God means having hope. Even when we look death in the face, we look in front of God. And where God is, there is life. Our earthly life will come to an end. But let us surprise ourselves! God has a new body for us, a new life; that is why we are of Hope fulfilled. There was an interesting broadcast on Czech radio, and it was a human interview with God.

Once, God supposedly said to a journalist: “So you want to do an interview with me. What do you want to ask me?” He said, “Dear God, what surprises you most about people?” God gave the following answer: “I am surprised that people risk their health to make a lot of Money, and then they give a lot of Money out so that they can get their health back in order. I am surprised that people are afraid of their future, but that they forget to live in the present. So, they actually live neither for the present nor for the future. I am surprised that they live as if they never have to die and die as if they had never lived. “
The journalist then asked God one more thing: “Dear God, what should parents teach their children?” God answered: “Loving parents should teach their children that they should love, love each other. They should also realize that what is most valuable is not what they have, but who they have. You should realize that it is not good to compare yourself to others. They should know that the richer is not the one who has the most, but the one who needs the least. I want them to know that it only takes a few seconds to strike someone deeply, but that it takes many years to heal such miracles. They should know that Money can buy anything except happiness. They should recognize that he is a real friend who knows everything about them and still loves them. “
After he finished the interview, the journalist’s impression was: “I sat there for a while, and I was happy to see God present. Then I thanked God that he had time for me. God’s answer to his thanks: “Whenever you want to speak to me, I’ll be there. I am available to everyone 24 hours a day. “
I have an essential question: Do we also count on God in our lives? If so, then death will not be a problem for us!

The meaning of holiness (Mt 5: 1-12)
Is holiness still current and temporal?

Do you remember the purpose or meaning of your life? Why do you live? What else do we want to achieve in life? And why?
In personal, social life, we hear that a climber wants to overcome a “four thousand,” a student graduates or obtains another diploma, fiancés to start a family, to raise offspring. And finally, we all want to live forever in heaven.
And what about the work of ourselves, to sanctify ourselves? To live according to God’s and the church’s commandments?

Climbing a high mountain “four thousand” or working on yourself – it seems simple, not challenging. When there is less oxygen at altitude, the ascent becomes strenuous. But there is also a risk of rapid weather changes, such as storms and fog. It so happened that alpine hikers and climbers regularly accumulate small rocks around the road, and these help them to orientate themselves, for example, in times of fog.
How many of these brands, mounds, have saved lives.

By the beatitudes, Jesus gives us valuable indicators on the way to eternity. Jesus declared himself: “I am the way” (Jn 14: 6), and in his beatitudes is a guide to how poor, weeping, quiet, hungry and thirsty, merciful, pure-hearted, peace-spreading, persecuted for righteousness (cf. Mt 5, 1-12), can successfully gain merit on earth for a blissful life in the kingdom of God.

Blaborish paintings depict the face of Jesus Christ and describe his love, expressing the vocation of believers who share in his suffering and resurrection. Beatitudes are characteristic attitudes of the Christian life and are paradoxical promises that keep hope in adversity, proclaim the blessing and reward that disciples receive in secret. The model is the life of the Virgin Mary and the saints.

Jesus was the meaning of life for the Virgin Mary and the saints.

The famous writer Agatha Christie begins one of her books by talking about a man who wanted to commit suicide. He jumped off a cliff. However, his fall was slowed down by a tree, so his attempt to kill failed. He told his nurse that he no longer wanted to live at the hospital because no one needed him. The nurse thought about it and said, “Maybe God needs you.”

There is a beautiful newspaper hidden in the Beatitudes. God needs us, and he, omnipotent, turns to the man and offers him cooperation.
And so every single person is essential. Perhaps we can see that we are entirely irrelevant to this world. A man sighed, “If I did not live, the world would not even notice.” But the importance of human life is not given to the world but God. It brings each person to live at a specific time, in a particular place, and with a specific mission. Would God create something unimportant? Not!
Everyone is invited to work with him to fulfill his plan with the world. But not everyone is willing to cooperate. Not everyone understands the meaning of their existence. This is perhaps because we do not ask about the importance of our lives. The catechism to the question Why did God create humans? – he answers: “God created people to know him, to love him, to serve him, and so they came to heaven.” Neglecting this truth will distract man from seeking the true meaning of life. And so, when he does not seek God’s will for his life, he lives according to his own will. He realizes his plans, and at the same time, somewhere in the depths of his heart, he feels sadness and an unpleasant awareness of the nonsense of his life.
One of the greatest psychologists of our century, Carl Gustav Jung, was at first an unbeliever and rejected religion as unbelievable. But when he empirically examined the human psyche, he found that there were questions: who am I, where am I from, why am I, where am I going? Some people may throw these questions in themselves with the noise and hustle of worldly interests, the deposition of material pleasures, or various stresses. But another person who delves deeper into these questions will get to such a depth within him that his self-knowledge will meet the knowledge of God. And so scientist Jung, working on God’s experience, declared, “The crucial question of human life is: Am I focused on God or not? According to that, my life has value or not. ” Finding the correct answer to the meaning of life means finding the importance and value of one’s own life.

God always stops when someone turns to Him in faith. We will be blessed if we can free ourselves from the false spirit of material values ​​and place our desires above all on spiritual and religious values. We will be blessed if we can be led to the humility of the strong, we will be able to renounce vengeance and hatred, and we will be wise over the fear of weapons and give preference to generous forgiveness, freedom, and conquering the world with goodness and peace. We will be blessed if our leadership standard is not selfishness but control and moderation.

Dominik Pecka’s writer shows in one humorous reflection what gives value to our actions: Virtue is not possible without love. The greedy man, for example, is careful when he protects his treasures, is fair, is afraid of giving someone more than he deserves, is modest so as not to spend his crowns unnecessarily, is also brave in the fight against robbers who want to turn him for his gold: but caution, justice, sobriety, bravery are not virtues, because they do not come from love. From the point of view of love, Bishop Klaus Hemmerle concretizes the Beatitudes:
Happy one who likes to give and can give up something.
Happy is he who does not shy away from the hardships and darkness of life, but bravely takes up his cross.
Happy one who stays calm and friendly when the other wants something from him.
Happy one who is not satisfied with half-life and, despite all the disappointments, perseveres on the path of progress.
Happy is he who is not indifferent to the distress of his neighbor, who has a heart and time for a man next to him.
Happy is he who remains pure, clear, and transparent despite all the power of temptation.
A happy one who soils his hands in the distress of his neighbor and contributes to the inner solution of tensions and conflicts.
Happy one who is not cowardly and overcomes the fear of resistance.

Let us each try to concretize the Beatitudes into their life situation.
Even though we have not uttered the word holy, it guides us to be holy, as Jesus Christ wants us to be.

The climb to the “four thousand” to reach the goal is beautiful and good, but we must not forget that we are invited to work on our salvation, always and always. Today, let us ask those who have already received a reward from Jesus for their lives.

To love God, the neighbor, and oneself (Mark 12: 28b-34)
The command of love does not lose its relevance.

You, too, sighed as you heard the gospel: I will listen to again about love. He talks about love, sings about love, and looks around, and we quickly notice the absence of love.

Someone advised the priest to preach about anything but love. Even so, love is lost. And he argued with one breath: “Husbands divorce, siblings are judged, friends do not talk, neighbors look at each other, believers in the church are transformed.” so that they do not die in lack of love, and before they stand before God, who is Love (Jn 4: 8), it is our duty not to stop talking about the commandment of love.

We all have to fight for true love because we recognize the attacks of the temptation of the body, the world, and the devil daily; we long to strengthen ourselves to resist and persevere in true love.
Therefore, even today, we receive the words of Jesus not only with our ears, mind, heart but with all our being: “You will love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind and with all your strength… You will love your neighbor as yourself! There is no other commandment greater than these ”(Mark 12: 30-31).

Synoptics (evangelists Matthew, Mark and Luke) noted the importance and need for the command of love. In the Old Testament in the Book of Deuteronomy (6: 4-5), this command was not limited but the most incredible wisdom. He who knows this command of God, God’s counsel or direction for life, should accept it as the most astonishing wealth.
The coming of the Code and his question to Jesus, “Which commandment is the first?” (Mark 12:28), cannot be understood as a provocation or a bad intention. The Code hears how Jesus rightly answers the crowd’s questions. The Jews had 365 positive and 248 negative commandments. Such a number can be wrong. So which command is the first, most important, most important? Jesus commands two commands that do not stand side by side in the Old Testament. It is essential for us that Jesus not only combines these commands but also interprets: “There is no other commandment greater than these,” (Mark 12:31). It teaches that one command cannot be separated from another. One order without the other would be incomplete. To love God and not to love one’s neighbor is not true love. The truth is that God wants to be loved by the two ways of love: indirectly through people and directly by the sincere gratitude of faith.

The commandment of love leads us to follow God, who is love and who shows his love for us from the very beginning in creating the world. The worldview teaches us the love that God loved before he made him. The whole world is a song about God’s love. Jesus expressed his passion not only by word but also by his death. Could we have received more from God than we received in the Eucharist, the mystery of love, when we have the living and true God present among us in this sacrament? God promises us His love in God’s kingdom in the future.
The commandment of love is a challenge to return the love of Jesus. In our tiny hearts, we have to have enough space for God all over the world. You will love God, your neighbor, as yourself (cf. Mk 12:31). He who fulfills the order will achieve everything. He who does not obey the command did not accomplish anything, even if he did miracles. Our first duty is, “To love God with all one heart and with all understanding, and with all strength” (Mark 12:33).
The world does not want to hear about God’s love. All the more so, we, who have believed in God, must not stop talking about the commandment of love and live the commandment of love. The words are known: If you want people to stop listening to you, start talking about love. ”(P. Plus) What can you expect from a world without love? Murder in wars and unborn children, murder of conjugal love, sibling, neighborly, friendly love… He who does not love his brother, sister does not love God either. A Christian loves God in another person and himself. He who hates himself, his neighbor, hates God. Only man is capable of the created things of true love. Let us renounce any part of the command of love and stop keeping it, and we cannot talk about true love.

About Höss is said to be the commander of the Auschwitz concentration camp that his father wanted him to be a priest and become one of the greatest murderers in history. A few meters from the house where he stroked his children, he managed to kill children with mothers and fathers. What was that love? In the same camp, Maximilian Kolbe voluntarily goes to a hunger bunker for his fellow prisoner. What was that love?
It is also known about another murderer of humanity, Stalin, that he was in seminary, and none of his collaborators was sure of his life with him. He had many friends murdered. What was that love? How many people pray for their murderers, “as we forgive those who trespass against us.” What is love?

The command of love does not emphasize nice words, but actual deeds of love. This is a challenge for us. Everyday events speak of our love. We must not drive God out of our hearts through sin. God created the world out of love, and God also created man out of love and for love. God rightly asks us for love. About St. Francis of Assisi is known to have burned with love. One man complained to him that he had a problem loving God. As they walked together, they met a blind and a leper. Francis asked him, “Would you like me to restore your sight and be no longer a leper?” “Sir, if I loved you, but I would become your slave for life!” “See,” he said. František asked a man who told him that it was difficult for him to love God, “he would love me if I restored his health. Why don’t you love the Lord God for being healthy?” We have something to love God for.

The struggle for love reminds us of St. Paul in Corinthians (cf. 1 Cor 13: 1-13). And it would be beautiful if we read and thought for ourselves about the words from the First Letter of St. John the Apostle (4: 7-5,4), which begin with the words: “Let us love one another, for love is of God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God” (1 Jn 4: 7).

Motivate believers to find time for God on Sunday
Today’s Gospel tells us how Jesus accepted the invitation to the house
of some leading Pharisees. Jesus accepted an invitation to the house of the Pharisee. He did not shy away from anyone and knew how to get each Pharisee. Thus, he showed his feeling and kindness to man. Suddenly, however, among the present appeared a sick man. Whether he was invited as a guest or came himself, the Gospel does not speak of it. He had a water lily, which was a sign of difficulty with heart and kidney disease. The Gospel says that the Pharisees and scribes present
watched Jesus the whole time he came, what he would say and do. Especially now, they sharpened their attention when a sick man came. Indeed, many surprised the thought, “It’s Saturday, maybe it will heal him.” Jesus seemed to know what they think in their hearts and asked them, “Free to heal on the Sabbath, is it not?” (Luke 14: 3)

There were differing views among the Jews on this question. Generally, it was thought that healing was not allowed on Saturdays if it was not possible about the danger of death. The Pharisees present also held this view, but it is perhaps embarrassing to say it out loud in this very situation. Maybe that is why it is said: “But they were silent” (Lk 14: 4a). Strict Pharisees forbade the rescue on Saturday of an animal that fell into a tank or well. They were only allowed to feed him and wait for the end of Saturday, that is, at six o’clock in the evening. Milder Pharisees allowed the animal to save now.1 Jesus said to them, “If any of you fall into a well son or ox, will he not pull it out immediately on the Sabbath?” (Lk 14: 5)
In this question, Jesus agreed that if something like this happens, it may be an animal to save. And if that happens to a person, no one doubts that he needs to be held, all the more so. All the more so when it’s your child. And a sick person needs to refuse rescue? But they could not answer him (cf. Lk 14: 6). Jesus gave them a clear answer by taking the sick man, “he healed him and released” (Lk 14: 4b).
Jesus had previously asked, “If any of you have a son fall into a well …” I mean, if your son falls into the well. God accepted us as His children. We have become God’s sons and daughters out of his love. And so, God reveals that He cares for every person. He is figuratively restless of his sons. Or daughters will fall into the well. And therefore, he comes to pull him out of it because he loves it very much. In this case, it hurts a person out of the well by healing him. He doesn’t care that it’s Saturday, and it is a sacred time in which such things must not be done.
The Pharisees forbade healing on the Sabbath day. And so, they caused the man here was for Saturday and not Saturday for man. Even worse. They caused God here on Saturday was not for the man.
And suddenly, Jesus comes here and gives a clear answer. Sense and the fulfillment of the law is love. Therefore, he healed a man on the Sabbath. He not only healed him as a sign to answer the Pharisees. He healed a man as a sign of that God has now come among His people. And she’s especially with him on Saturday. At a time that it belongs primarily to God. God himself wanted to be with a man. Proof of this is that Jesus healed the man. That was a sign to show that God was between us. The one that is expected has already arrived. It’s Jesus. But he was in the body as man, which was an obstacle for the Pharisees to believe in him as in God Son. He was, so he could afford to interpret the law “in his own way.”
Therefore, he could heal a man even on the Sabbath because he was a giver of this Sabbath. Saturday it thus becomes a sign, the day of the Lord, the day of God’s mercy. The Jews celebrated the Lord’s Day on the Sabbath, the seventh day of the week. After the resurrection, Jesus became for us Christians this Sunday day because, on Sunday morning, Jesus rose from the dead. Therefore, the content of Sunday is the resurrection of Christ, his new life, which prevailed throughout creation. God wants us to seek Him at this time more intense than ever. It is when he wants to be with us and longs for us, they wanted to be with him. Let’s pray together. Sir, let us seek you for your love to us. Let us look for you and find you. Let us know you. Let us experience strengthin your presence because you are always close.

“Why are you withdrawing your hand and why are you holding your right hand in your lap?” (Ps 74, 11) Sometimes I ask myself: Why does the Lord God not proceed more magnificently, stronger, more open, why are there no more excellent signs in Heaven and on earth, why does he won’t reveal more his glory, that all men may believe in him?
But then I understood that if he did, yes, he would get ours amazement, he would gain our obedience, perhaps, and submissiveness for sure; he would gain fear and fear and indeed worship, whether sincere or apparently out of fear and calculations, but not love. Love cannot be obtained by manifestations of Power or, in any form of any kind, pressure.
If God were a lord who rules and reigns hard, he would give us, his
subjects, feel their Power and would undoubtedly be satisfied with the manifestations of ours obedience and obedience. So, it was pretty much in the Old Testament when he was beginning with us people – though not quite there either. But He comes as the Bridegroom. He longs for the love of man as his bride. Therefore, as the Groom remains hidden. He lets us know about himself; yes, he gives, enough to get to know Him, enough so that we can fall in love with Him – enough to seek Him. But never, not so much that His Size and Power will break us and destroy the hope of the subtle and the tender love of the bride instead of the submission of the slave.
“It’s not far from any of us. Because we live in it, we move, and we are.” (Acts 17: 27-28) And then he waits until we find Him with a longing heart full of love, not for Him Greatness and Power and our possible gain, but for His Beauty and Love – and He will be to us, he can find, believe, and undoubtedly be found to everyone who seeks Him with love! Today, just like then, and to those who sought Him in it with great love painful and then so joyful Morning: Mary Magdalene, the other women, and after them Peter, and John and the disciples … Jesus answered and said unto him, He that loved me shall keep my word and mine. The father will love him; we will come to him and make him his home. “” (Jn 14:23)
“You love him, even though you have not seen him. Even now you do not see him, but you believe and rejoice with unspeakable joy, full of glory, that you are achieving the goal of your faith – salvation of souls. “(1 Peter 1: 8-9) It is delicate and precise work, this everyday walk of the bride and groom, getting to know each other, tapping, until finally to love, so gentle, so tender, in the silence and intimacy of the two hearts … A peaceful journey to a soft and fragile goal.
And yet, in the end, in that tenderness and fragility, when it is born, there is more strength, then in the whole Universe! “Love is as powerful as death, and the passion of love is as hard as the underworld. It’s burning – that the flames of the fire, its flames, Yahweh’s radiance. Not even great waters will quench love, nor will the rivers wash it away. “(Cp. 8: 6-7)
It’s about love. Not about obedience, although love also obeys. But observation itself is not enough. It must be love. We have to fall in love. Really, and truly, to fall in love with the Groom, who is secretly waiting for our love. Love is the essence of God; love is the life of Heaven. Enough for earthly blessings, worship of slaves, and obedience to servants. But not for Heaven, not for deification. Only love, real love, applies there!
And when they had eaten, Jesus asked Simon Peter, saying, Simon, son of John, loves thou? me greater than these? “He replied,” Yes, Lord, you know I love you. ” (Jn 21:15) “… for no man shall be justified by works of the law.” (Ga 2, 16) “God is love; and he who remains  in love remains in God, and God remains  in him.” (1Jn 4:16) “He who loves was born of God and knows God.” (1Jn 4, 7)
Do you know, man, what love is? You know, perhaps you were in love. But if no … So, ask yourself this: Is God, is Jesus Christ, my hobby? My hobby? My hobby? Which I devote myself to with passion and joy whenever I have a moment? I have His paintings and posters on the wall, read in the library books about Him? I collect, buy, order, visit things that. Are they related to it? Because this is the beginning of love. But only the beginning. We can love Christianity more than Christ. Being more interested in the puzzles of theology than a person of the Groom. Biblical prophecies and fantastic fruits to interpret them (and this happens) rather than by their Originator. But it can be the gate, the outer courtyard of the inner temple within us, through which we can walk further, more profound, to the Sanctuary, where the Bridegroom awaits and where love turns into true and accurate love. It’s always about love. Love matters. The only one on it.
“He who does not love remains in death.” (1Jn 3:14) How does love begin? Don’t cook by timidly talking to who we are wanted to love? So let’s talk! “In those days, he went up to the mountain to pray and spent the whole night in prayer with God.” (Lk 6:12)
And then gifts, expressions of affection and interest, first and artificial attempts to make the other happy …? We can do this too, let’s give presents of attention to Christ! “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.” (Jn 14:15)
Love does not fall from the sky. Love must be born, grow, strengthened, and mature. Words of love, expressions of love, or at least interest and attention, gifts to whom we want to love.

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.” (Jn 14:15)
Love does not fall from Heaven. Love must be born, grow, become more robust, and mature. A word of love, expressions of love, or at least interest and attention, gifts to it, whom we want to love, is how love is cultivated and by which grows. This is how big little Therese understood it when discovering her “little way” to big love.
“… with eyes fixed on Jesus, the author and finisher of faith.” (Heb 12:2) Yes, the first on the path of love is attention. The attention of the mind, attention of the words and acts and gifts, receptivity to the Beloved, to what pleases Him and what does not, what pleases Him and what grieves Him, and what He would wish in His heart and rejoice in that from us … Yes, this is the beginning of love. And we can do that. It can be done. It can any of us if he wants to. If he desires to love. Suppose he hopes to find the Bridegroom.
To act not for our own sake but His. What pleases Him. To put Him at the center. It can be done. That goes. “As the eyes of servants look on the hands of their masters, as the eyes of maidservants look on the
the hands of their mistresses, so our eyes look to the Lord our God.” (Ps. 123, 2)

Pass on your life with all Christ and be able to enter through a narrow gate to Christ already here on earth the desire for heaven is powerful in man, and the desire to live once with God in eternal joy and happiness will never pass away. We also often ask ourselves the question, what will happen to us when we leave this world? What will happen next?
It must have bothered people in the time of Jesus. Not to mention that it must have upset them all the more so when God himself, Jesus, told them about salvation. He was the one who was most competent to talk about it because he knew well what it was all about. That this is about life, man. And out of a great desire to see the truth, and perhaps out of curiosity, someone took it he asked, “Lord, are there few who will be saved” (Lk 13:23)? He wondered so strangely.
There are a few of them … Why did he ask negatively? There are few of them, and no, there are many of them? I’d say it reveals the man’s idea of ​​how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God, and therefore it seems to him that there will probably not be many there. And maybe it seemed to him that everything Jesus said about salvation was quite hard. It seems to me as if he carried a fear in himself similar to those who took Jesus as well they asked, “Who then can be saved” (Lk 18:26) when it is so difficult to keep your word and the commands you are telling us here.
Jesus did not answer the man who was asking in the way he was expecting. He did not say how many would be saved. As if to say it doesn’t matter, don’t worry about it. But he began to talk about going to heaven. He said: “Strive to enter through the strait gate” (Lk 13:24). He used a picture of a gate that he explained instead because he had inserted himself into the image of the gate. That gate, indeed, he is alone. It says, ‘I am the gate.’ How does heaven go? Through the gate, which is Christ. And he is a tight game.
Why tight? For he alone is that gate; no one can replace him. Nobody
can imitate the silhouettes of his face, his person. Whether you’re slim or fat, either tall or small, it doesn’t matter. Anyone can walk through Jesus as a gate, decides to give him his life. He accepts everyone. For him, it is not a problem who what he looks like or what his figure is. For the light that flows from the silhouette of Jesus. The Spirit embraces the whole man. It penetrates to the tip of his bone. But then Jesus said what made us sad: “Many will try to enter, and they will not
to be able” (Lk 13: 24b). We ask why? What didn’t hit the gate? Or they went the wrong way?
Yes, there is a way to every gate. And the form also leads to God into God of the Kingdom. It is impossible to go there and not follow a path. Today we are they present many ways to come to bliss, and these are the paths on which man. He can experience a mound of experiences and fun as he twists in his head. It’s over, however, it is usually so that a person is disoriented and exhausted and falls to the ground. He finds out in pain that he was deceived because the path he took did not bring him peace, happiness, and true joy. How closely and inseparably the gate is connected with the way.
Who will show us the way? The path that will lead us to the gate. Everyone her we know. She is Jesus. Let’s remember him saying, “I’m the way, the truth and life” (Jn 15: 5). He lets us go after him. He gives us the grace to go in his light person, in the power of his Spirit. He guides us infallibly so that we do not get out of the way. Because, when we go along the main road, we sometimes notice turns, and we are tempted to look where those paths lead. The form and the gate are Jesus. The same Jesus is the way, and then so is the gate. If Jesus says that we should strive to enter through a narrow entrance, we must strive to follow in his footsteps along the way. And his footsteps take the shape of human feet: there are two, and the tracks from the lead only in one direction, always only forward. Never left or right, or backward. It cannot be followed Christ and at the same time live in sin. Jesus knows that sin tastes good to us because it is often pleasant. But it kills the human Spirit. And it is in this way; man has in Christ recognized that his nature suits him best when he loves. And it is possible to learn only in Christ truly. Only in Christ can we learn truly
to love God and people. Indeed, in faith, no one has seduced us even if we are on our way to experiencing difficulties.
Therefore, to follow his path also means to struggle. Fight for your own life, by which I will fill it. Fight for God so that I will not be torn from my heart. Wrestle for love. We will experience this match ideally on our skin when we decide to follow the path of Jesus. And even on our body, we will share that the course is narrow because it is only the path of love. Love that forgives the insults that come, sacrifices for others, and does not think about himself. There is no other option on it. I encourage myself and you to decide to go after every day again
his way. He will lead us on it, and we may survive on it what he experienced and he. After all, it is his path that means living Jesus’ life together with him. However, it is a clear and surest way that leads a person to the gate. And if we live in Christ here and now, we don’t have to worry about not hitting in his gates. He is a guarantee that we will hit her. And he will welcome us personally at the gate. It causes that we will see ourselves face to face and begin to experience, as never before his deep love, friendship with him.
Let’s pray together. Jesus, bring all the people on your path of truth
and accompany us on it yourself. Strengthen us with your merciful love. Bring us to the gate, to the place of our personal meeting. To when we try to come in, you have known us all and taken you in forever.

To be open to love everyone like Christ, who perfects us with a cross in love. “The worst disease is not leprosy, but when someone finds it nobody likes it.” That’s what the one who cared for the lepers all her life said— Mother Teresa.
Probably, we all experienced moments when something hurt us; we broke our arm or foot. But we also probably all experienced when our souls ached, and we had a hard time. There was sadness, joy disappeared, and we were in trouble. That’s when we wanted them to be there, our loved ones who will help us understand us and will be willing to endure together with us our pains; they will help us carry the cross.
We heard how Jesus healed a woman who was 18 years old in infirmity. She was hunched over and couldn’t straighten up at all.
Today we would say – a challenging situation. However, Jesus taught in the synagogue and in the strength of the Spirit with which he was led he saw this woman and laid her hands on her, and she was free of disease. Jesus did this with His power, which is alive and practical love. A special love that loves a person and at the same time has such force that it heals a sick body. In this case, Jesus’ love met with an evil spirit who did this, he tied the woman up so that she could not straighten up and saw only the ground. And how did man react to love then? Differently. The woman praised and celebrated God, for what Christ did to her. The second was introduced to the synagogue, which in the deed of Jesus did not know his love. For this, he shouted at the people: “It is six days when need to work; on these days come and be healed, and not on the Sabbath” (Lk 13:14)!

And here, we could paraphrase Mother Teresa’s words. The worst disease is not a hunchback, but when others don’t care about you. When he doesn’t feel love to you, and therefore does not even understand you. The superior of the synagogue considered him evil when a person suddenly healed.? And besides, did he see a miracle with his eyes? Jesus replied, “Hypocrites. And this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan held bound for eighteen years, there was no need to be freed from this bondage though on the Sabbath” (Lk 13: 15a; 16)? Jesus did not tell them directly, but in what he said, he revealed that he was the lord of the Sabbath, for he is God. And God is now among his own. Now is the time of salvation. Also, for this woman. God was there, although the Pharisees could not see any God. Paradoxically, the healed woman saw in Jesus, God’s servant, for she glorified God for healing her. The Pharisees objected because Jesus did not keep the law. However, he put in him what the Pharisees lacked. He put his Spirit of love in him because only so the law could be fulfilled. For only love that is of God cannot see.

Do yourself and love everyone without distinction. Only she dares to take that risk will be challenged for what it does because society has different ideas. Pharisees had other ideas. According to them, God could not behave in this way. But once he had to, the time will come when God will reveal his new and definitive way of love in Christ. It appears to us that God didn’t love so much before? He loved, but now he wants to prepare a man to receive even deeper love. For the love to which man has long been God called. But who was to come to show how he loves with such passion, if not God himself – the author and source of this love?
In today’s Gospel, we have met a woman who has suffered greatly. Today, many suffer severely in body and soul. Those who suffer like this need from us others to hear that they have not lost their place among us (in society), even though they are strapped to the bed, and they seem to be out of action for a while. Each limb has its place in the Church, and its life has meaning because Christ has pressed it on it.
And therefore also he who suffers is a sign for all. A sign that doesn’t have us leave indifferent. As if the lives of these people didn’t concern us. Especially today in a busy time we live fast, we have many worries and problems often with us themselves. If we look into ourselves, we can hardly perceive the needs of others.
It often happens that we can not perceive the impulses of the Spirit. However, the point is that we never lose the human way; we should approach not only the sick but also everyone. We believe in Christ, who sanctified his life and death our human ways to become his ways of acting. His way of conduct, his style, was love. He approached everyone with love. With love without conditions, as well as to all: or to the rich young man, to Jair, too to the centurion, or to those who cried out, “Crucify him.”
Let us not be afraid to throw ourselves into the arms of Jesus as we suffer. After all, he is the master of life. He is the one who gives life. He has suffered; he understands us well when we suffer. Yes, suffering is also tricky because it does not have sorrow in itself since. Then we are disoriented and do not understand why I suffer, why it just happened to me. Maybe even God won’t give us an answer then. However, he wants us to trust him without bounds. Because he is like a father who is sometimes strict with his child, but he never wants him bad. He’s like a father who wants to teach his child, and he never wants him bad. He’s like a father who wants to teach his child to once she truly and deeply loved as much as he did. Perhaps the strangest thing, the way God does it, is to perfect us with suffering.
Let us ask the Lord together. Jesus, grant us health of body and soul, for you, are a source of life. Please strengthen our faith whenever we suffer so that they may have grown about you despite the daily cross. Sir, give us a moment when we suffer understood in the light of your cross. Help us carry it, and never us, do not leave.

The pursuit of happiness
It is difficult to buy a gift for another person – especially when we do not know the person well. That’s why it was so many books had been written about it in the world. It is not good or pleasant not to match the taste of the person we want to give. “Well, what would I give her … I could buy her a fern, for example.
Um … But what if she doesn’t care for plants, or what if she’s right allergic to fern …? “I could buy him a cashmere tie. But no … Who knows if I would blame him … “Or I could buy him a bottle of Scotch whiskey. Um, but what if is an abstinent?” The whole point of buying gifts is that they would have to buy the person concerned with something he did not have and what he wanted. What will make her truly happy for a moment?
It seems that we have managed to solve this problem with congratulatory postcards. “Happy Christmas! Happy New Year! Happy birthday! Good luck to your wedding’s quarter-century! ” Happy this, happy that, regardless of what it is. People usually like to listen to and accept their wishes. Because there is something we are sure everyone wants, and it is clear that there is never enough. But how does this relate to human values? Happiness is the queen of values, a vessel full of gold at the end of the rainbow. Everyone wants me, and then it’s clear that we all appreciate it. Well, luck is for us, excellent? Let us remember again that everyone wants to be happy. This is our destiny – to be satisfied forever. Moreover, all our other deeds are fortunate as their end. You are not a means to an end. It’s not a tool, either, at some stage on the way to something else. No one uses happiness to get more money or more enjoyment. After the funds
or we long for pleasure because we are convinced that they us make you happy.

Is everyone happy?
Why, then, does a person’s efforts to be happy often end in disaster? Not many people seem to be satisfied. An article was published in Time magazine on September 13, 1993: “Satisfaction is … everywhere in the world is difficult in our time. find – or so says a group of experts who did an international survey. ” Many people laugh or have fun amid fun or delusion, but they don’t seem to find happiness. When we get closer to them and look at them, it will become apparent that these people are running away on their own in front of me. This is confirmed by such a frequent reluctance to be quiet. So, we fill the world with sounds and music, one activity after another. Rarely do we dare to reflect for a moment about our lives and where we go. Happiness has been written about in many books – from ancient philosophers to contemporary pop psychologists – and it still doesn’t seem that people would become happier. Walk on the sidewalk of Paris, New York or London. Target looks into the eyes of people whose
you meet. Do they radiate happiness? This is usually not the case. Ask a neighbor or a colleague at school or work whether he is happy. The answers will be confusing. It is a real tragedy that most people are not satisfied with. Sometimes we mistakenly think that there are many things that we cannot do without, and therefore without which we cannot be happy. “You can’t be happy if you don’t have a lot of money, power, a wide range of joys, experiences, and so on.” These are the prerequisites for happiness. Presented to us by contemporary culture. The United Nations have even gone so far that its officials have formulated a list of twelve things without which one cannot be happy. There was a radio between them; there was a bicycle and a set for China appliances.

If we begin to combine happiness with material things or with joy, we can get into trouble. All these things are outside us, so we can’t even influence them to some extent. More importantly, none of them are permanent or inevitable. if I can’t be sure of owning necessary things
to happiness; then, I will never be thrilled. I will still live in anxiety that my joy is as shaky as a house of carats: it can collapse instantly. Because we know many theories of happiness, it will be paramount for us to think about what homeland is not happiness. But let’s say in advance that our answer must have something to do with what we came up with when we discussed human nature in the previous consideration. Most of us should probably have trouble defining happiness. It is also the case that there are many kinds of joy. Saying “I feel happy” after drinking a glass of good wine is not the same as to say, “Peter is a happy man,” or “Michael and Lucia are. We must be able to distinguish between different types or degrees of happiness.