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It is interesting how our technical maturity manifests itself in our speech and thinking. If they escort a child out of the house, they don’t tell him: I love you, may the angel protect you, come back to me healthy… Rather, they say on the run: Do you have the keys?; you have it ready for lunch…; didn’t you forget anything?; I’m running… If we add economic thinking to it, we also put the question in relationships: What do I get out of it? This is especially so in extramarital relationships. Or even in them? We are not surprised that this also resonates in our relationship with God. What is our religious, catechism, and especially theological speech?! In today’s first reading, we heard: Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love has not known God, because God is love.

It says that we are born of God. However, we speak of baptism, in which we are born of God, as a sacrament – you see – as a thing. With her, we received: Sanctifying grace, cleansing from original sin, the light of Jesus, the name Christian… It sounds like these are things – albeit spiritual. It’s all true. But! Isn’t this about something more? I am glad that recently it is emphasized: We have become children of God, we are brothers, we form one family – the Church… We go from things to relationships. John said it nicely: We are born of God. And it reminds me why. Because: God’s love for us was manifested in the fact that God sent his only-begotten Son into the world so that through him, we might have life.
And Jesus behaved like that. He had time for people. He devoted himself to them, he thought about them: When Jesus saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. And he began to teach them many things. When he told them about the kingdom of God, he did not tell them that they would have a blessed vision through sanctifying grace at death… But he told them that it would be like a royal wedding – a feast. He didn’t even tell them that much about it, but he prepared a feast for them. So, what is our relationship with God? Let’s call him Heavenly Father. Doesn’t it happen that we just ask something from him, do we find time to pray because it is an obligation, or do we build a relationship with him? Yes, we are children of this time. Technical, economic, or whatever you want to call it. But let’s create relationships. Both to the Heavenly Father and to people. Let’s find time for them.

​​It helps everyone to navigate life’s paths in a way that will benefit them for eternity. If children fall away from God, they cause pain to their parents. Today, it is not uncommon for a child from a good Christian family to choose a different path than he was led at home. Even in Christian families, children are exposed to the plague of our time, such as drugs, computer games, and sects, but also to the difficulties of mixed marriages. They conclude marriages outside the church. God respects the reason and will of every person. God can do everything, but not against the reason and will of man. Despite prayers, tears, and other sacrifices, parents witness that their child is deaf and dumb to what they raised him to do. It often takes a long time. It is necessary that parents do not lose hope despite the long time. Knees often win this battle.

Each they keep in mind that God will not forsake. Mary and Joseph searched for Jesus for three days, and Jesus was the Son of God after all. Mary and Joseph did not understand why Jesus acted like that. Despite this, they faithfully fulfilled their parents’ mission. Let this be an encouragement to those parents whose children have found a different way or philosophy of life. In the same way, our families suffer from the separation of spouses. Today, infidelity and illicit married life are mainly promoted by the mass media and presented as something harmless. Where the spiritual life is weaker, the divorce rate increases. Not only in the beginnings of life together, in the first crises, but also when the spouses are in years. Likewise, parents are pressured by material and housing difficulties, and contraception is also related to this. Today’s world does not want to call abortion a sin. Even many Christian spouses do not consider illicit married life to be a sin.

Today more than ever in the past it is true that it is not enough to just lay the foundation of a family, but to build it more and more carefully. The Gospel tells about two men who were building their houses. Only he was “wise” and built on the rock. What he cared about was the foundation. What was in no hurry to quickly finish the house. He reckoned with the difficulties that might arise. And marriages today? We have to take it, instead of: we are already mature. Better, parents, tell yourselves that you will help your daughter raise her grandchild, but not advise her where to take him. But also, young women and young men, remember that words are quick to say but hard to put into practice. Once said “yes” before God, it applies “until your death and mine, and in any adversity” it does not stop when all the conditions for the valid and permissible conclusion of the sacrament of marriage are fulfilled at the beginning.

Maria points to the obligation to work on the sanctity of our families. Life is often very short and eternity does not pass anyone by. Prayer for the family, for its members, and joint prayer at least once a week are strength, encouragement, and strengthening for our families. Mother, father, son, or daughter are also very significant and multifaceted for us in connection with the words my or mine. Let’s pray for them and ourselves at Holy Mass.

The biblical readings from the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus have a common theme: the love of Jesus Christ for people. Not the love of God in general that we find in the prophets, but the love of God made flesh. The heart of Jesus is the deepest place in His humanity, the place where all His humanity is concentrated and meets the Divinity, thus realizing the great mystery of God who became man; it is the wedding room where the betrothal of the king’s son takes place with the body born of the Virgin Mary and, thanks to her, with the whole Church (cf. Mt 22:2; Eph 5:32). If the entire humanity of Jesus is the source of the sacrament of salvation, then His heart is it specially.

The image of Jesus Christ with the heart on the palm or the outside of the chest did not help us to the piety of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, because we carry the Heart in the chest, and not outside or on the hand. His characteristic is that he moves everything, although he remains hidden and humble. Having already built the feast of the Sacred Heart on the solid rock of the mystery of the Incarnate Word, let us discard the doubts and restlessness that have kept some of us from drawing water from this source of salvation for a long time. The Sacred Heart is our cradle, we were all born there! One of the Psalms says the same about Zion: Everyone was born on it… This one and that one were born on it (Ps 87, 4-6); but our true Zion, that in which “all our springs are,” is the Heart of Jesus. We emerged from Him together with water and blood, that is, through Baptism and the Eucharist. Another psalm adds: The intentions of His heart – through the generations (Ps 33, 11); now we know what they are, or rather what the thoughts of His Heart are. We are the thoughts of His Heart! The thoughts of the Divine Heart are not abstract and fleeting like ours (my thoughts are not your thoughts – Is 55:8), they are always a reality; God thinks and everything exists. We are God’s thoughts that clothed themselves with flesh during birth and became sons in the Heart of Jesus; sons in the Son. Now these ideas are said to “endure from generation to generation,” that is, always; God does not abandon those whom He has begotten. which clothed themselves with flesh during birth and became sons in the Heart of Jesus; sons in the Son. Now these ideas are said to “endure from generation to generation,” that is, always; God does not abandon those whom He has begotten. which clothed themselves with flesh during birth and became sons in the Heart of Jesus; sons in the Son. Now these ideas are said to “endure from generation to generation,” that is, always; God does not abandon those whom He has begotten.

There must be a reason why the Church recommends the Heart of Jesus to us, and not some other organ of His humanity, as a concrete sign of the mystery of His Divine-human love. So let’s look for this reason in the Holy Scriptures and human experience. For the Bible, the heart is the noblest and most important part of a person; it is an essential part of a person, the seat of spiritual life, and a privileged place of meeting with God. From the heart comes what pollutes, but also what sanctifies a person. True purity (cf. Mt 5:8) and true humility (cf. Mt 11:29) come from the heart. The heart embodies what we now refer to as our innermost self. With the cult of the Sacred Heart, we include the whole person of the Savior and are led to the source of His feelings and saving actions: You will draw water from the springs of salvation with joy (Is 12, 3). This special interest in the Heart of Jesus has its genesis in the New Testament at the moment of Christ’s death. The evangelist John, by assigning extraordinary and seemingly exaggerated importance to the piercing of Jesus’ side on the cross, broke the way that leads to the celebration of the Sacred Heart of Jesus;

Today, the heart does not represent in man all that it represented for the Holy Scriptures; indeed, its importance in everyday speech and the general feeling of men has remained unaltered, but all the rest, its noblest functions, which were at one time ascribed to it, have at the same time been transferred to the intelligence, the will, or even the brain. However, in our current way of showing the heart, there is a thing that helps us understand by analogy the meaning of the heart of Jesus. The heart is the engine of the whole body; life and death depend on him; it is present in the whole organism and causes it to vibrate according to its movements; blood from the whole body full of toxic waste flows into it and it cleans, oxygenates and distributes it to the most distant cells of the body. The same is performed on the spiritual plane by the Heart of Jesus in the wonderful, immense body that is the Church! In this Heart, for the first time, the cleansing from all sins took place, and the birth of hope and human love took place; there, too, in a mysterious way every day, during the Holy Mass, the corrupted and infected blood of the world flows in, and from there, a mysterious wave comes out, which comes from the Holy Spirit, which purifies, renews and strengthens all the members of the Church. Every forgiveness, every grace, every inspiration, every ray of hope and joy, every encouragement to unity that we experience in our Christian life, has its beginning in the Heart of Jesus. Such was the Father’s plan, so that all fullness dwells in Him and that we receive grace after grace from this fullness (cf. Col 2:9; Jn 1:16). And this is because in this Heart on the cross was fulfilled the act of complete and perfect obedience, which was the fulfillment of the entire will of God; therefore God exalted Him and entrusted the salvation of all people into His hands.

The greatest hope that fills us on this day is that the Heart of Jesus is not something that passed away, that stopped beating on this Friday afternoon, shortly before the mercenary pierced it with a spear. The heart of Jesus lives on because Jesus rose from the dead and lives, and when he rose from the dead and lives, so also His Heart rose from the dead and lives. He lives in the Spirit like the whole Christ, and living in the Spirit means that this heart continues to beat, that it dwells in some place, or rather in every place. After disposing of his mortal body, he called someone close to the whole world, “he is closer to me than I am to me”; he stands at the door of every heart and knocks, if someone opens to him, he will enter: He who loves me… my Father loves him and we will come to him and make our abode with him (Jn 14, 23).

If we conclude from this, we can say that the Heart of Jesus is a new heart that was promised to us by the prophet Ezekiel (11, 19) and was given to us at Holy Baptism. it also happened through our sins. To forgive as Jesus forgave, to obey as Jesus was obedient, to suffer as Jesus suffered, and to love as Jesus loved means to forgive, to be obedient, to suffer, and to love with the Heart of Jesus. Paul says: Let this desire quicken you; she was also in Christ Jesus (Phil 2:5); but to manifest the same desires is to have the same heart! The true love for our neighbor, which the Gospel speaks about, does not consist in loving our brothers, giving them something of ours, but in allowing Jesus to love our brothers in us when we allow His love to flow through us.

One more thing. We long to be one heart again, like the original Christian community (cf. 4, 32); we strive for the unity of all believers in Christ; this is what ecumenism consists of. But what is this one heart? Or maybe a heart that was created from the union of all hearts, and thus something abstract and exclusively metaphorical? It is the Heart of Jesus that is “the king and unifier of all hearts”. Unity, fortunately for us, is already there, and at least it has begun, and we already have the germ of it; we only have to complete it and show it to the world by tearing down the walls we have built around this one Heart. In the Heart of Jesus, not only is the unity of all believers with each other realized, but also the unity of all believers with the Father: I am in them and You in me! That they may all be one (Jn 17, 23).

Let us now look in prayerful contemplation at the One whom we have pierced. This wound has always been a favorite refuge of souls thirsty for salvation. Through this narrow gate, they established close contact with Jesus and found pasture. This gate is open to all, both saints and sinners; it is open above all to those who labor and are burdened, to those who seek rest for their souls. “Whosoever thou art, run to this fountain of life and light, with fervent desire and inward strength of heart cry unto it: eternal and impenetrable, sublime and full of sweetness, the fountain hidden from the eyes of all mortals!” Your depth is infinite, your height is without end, your breadth is boundless, your purity is perfect! A river flows from you that “makes the city of God hap

Jesus says this: “Unless your righteousness is greater than that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.”
So let’s ask ourselves the question: “What did Jesus mean by this?” What is Jesus’ “greater” righteousness, or in another translation, “more significant” righteousness? To answer this question, let’s look a little at how the Pharisees understood justice. They thought that by the outward fulfillment of all the commandments and regulations they would stand before God, that is, that they would be righteous based on fulfilled duty. That is why they called the Pharisees “justified”. According to Jewish dogmatic, there was a certain agreement between God and man. According to her, God, as a merchant, should have consistently written down for each person what he received and what he has to give. God and man stand side by side as equal business partners. And therefore, all the good deeds that a person performs will be written down by God “based on the purchase-legal relationship between himself and the person as a claim of the person”. As you’re to me, so I to you. If you, man, will perform good deeds, you will get plus, you will be healthy, you will acquire money, and you will be blessed! If you don’t do anything well, you will get a minus, you will get sick, misfortune will overtake you, you will become poor, you will not get blessings! Such was the opinion of the synagogue. They made God a merchant, a business partner. Justice based on “blasphemy of God”. How terrible was this religion! Jesus tries to throw away such justice and tear it out of a person’s heart like a poisonous root. Therefore, he tells the disciples that unless their righteousness is completely different, much greater than the righteousness of the Pharisees, they will not enter the kingdom of heaven. These words of Jesus were true, but also terrible for the Pharisees and other listeners because they changed everything. And in the closing words of the Sermon on the Mount, says this: “When Jesus had finished these words, the multitudes marveled at his teaching.” They were deeply shaken by the

We have the duty and responsibility to educate ourselves, to form our conscience. Conscience is therefore mainly the basis of a person’s inner dignity, and at the same time of his relationship with God (Bl. John Paul II). Jesus tells us: “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets…” (Mt 5:77). He wants to fulfill his mission to the letter and letter, that is, everything as it was in God’s plan from the beginning.

Laws created by man need to be changed. Other circumstances, status, and other people come. God’s laws remain the same. God is the supreme lawgiver. God’s law can only be changed by God. Man would like to change God’s law, he cannot. Many people would like to adopt God’s law to their possibilities. God does not want the decline of man. God does not allow sin to be committed. If lying were allowed, everyone on earth would become a liar. If stealing is allowed, everyone will be a thief. If murder is allowed, everyone becomes a murderer. And so it is with every sin. And life on earth would become hell. God’s law helps a person to improve in morality, in the spirit of peace of common life. The most advantageous path of life for a person is the path on which a person preserves the Right. The law and the commandments do not want to enslave man. Vice versa. A person who realizes what God wants using prohibitions and commands faithfully observes them. He sees in them God who is Love. The greater the knowledge of Love, the more decisive the attitude against sin, and the more decisive the attitude toward Love. A wandering conscience binds (St. TA II/II q.19 ​​a.5.).

It is necessary to pay attention to the education of a person’s conscience. It is not enough that a person learns the commandments, but he must confront his actions with the commands. If a person understands well the meaning of the individual commands and the meaning of their whole, then he reaches the ideal of life and accepts the Church as a means on the path of life, which helps him, directs him, directs and leads him safely on the path to eternal life.

It can happen that under the influence of the environment, circumstances of life, and other circumstances, a person loses a clear view of some commandment, and it is precisely here that the mission of the Church is to guide him so that he does not remain in error. The Church is the authority in the field of faith and morals. Jesus gave power to Peter and promised the Holy Spirit. Therefore, only the Church has the right and duty to explain the commandments of faith and morals. He cannot leave it to personal opinion or the opinion of a group or some leader. Morality begins where words end (A.Schweitzer). History and today are proof of false ideologies and false leaders.

It is recommended from time to time to stop and seriously reconsider or check your conscience. This is how we talk about the evening examination of conscience, which is recommended as hygiene of the soul when we pay the same attention to the hygiene of the body. A short examination of conscience is at the beginning of every Holy Mass. It is appropriate because the Mass is the holiest sacrifice, and we should prepare accordingly for it.

Has anyone ever asked you the question: “Why do you go to church, why do you pray?”…and the like. And what will our answer to ourselves sound like? Many also answer this question with the words: “I need to pour light, and salt into my life again and again.” Others: “I feel that even my surroundings rightfully ask me to be a role model, an example of life, and I need to strengthen myself, I need light to see more and see myself and the surroundings more clearly in the light of Christ.” In other words – many of us realize that we are not only here for ourselves, but also for others. Jesus asks us to be salt and light to our brothers and sisters.

And it is to us, who think like this, that Jesus reminds us: ” You are the salt of the earth”… “You are the light of the world”… and the words: “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father.” (Mt 5:13, 14, 16). In a relatively short periscope of the Gospel, the Lord Jesus points out parables, each of which addresses directly those who believed in Christ with the words: “You are”. In this way, he announces the hidden clear form of his will, what his disciples are to become. And that’s because they have to fulfill the mission with which Jesus entrusts them. The images that Jesus points to are understandable. Salt has no mission for itself, but has been used in the preparation of food, and, like the sun, serves not only itself, but illuminates creatures, and, like the city on a hill, is therefore exposed for all to see. Missioner three is service.

Jesus is not only a teacher but also our role model. He is the salt of the earth. Without him, the world would not have the flavor of eternity. Without it, the world would collapse and perish under the pressure of immorality as easily as food without salt quickly spoils. Salt is his divine nature. His Spirit, who received the world at the moment of his incarnation and later at the moment of resurrection. St. Bernard said: “Every speech I hear or read is tasteless to me if I do not find the name of Jesus in it.”

When Jesus tells the disciples, “You are salt, light, a city on a hill”, they should realize that they – enlightened by his word – are obliged to give light to others, just as the moon reflects the light of the sun when night has come. In the time of Christ in Palestine, salt was considered a great good. In the minds of Jesus’ contemporaries, salt was associated with purity. The Romans said that salt is the purest of all things on earth because it comes from the purest things – water and the sun. Therefore, salt has always been used as a sacrificial gift to God. Jesus tells us that a Christian cannot isolate himself. A Christian should be of benefit everywhere. Holy Father John Paul II. In the encyclical Christifideles laici, he says that Christians should take their place wherever it does not contradict his conscience. A Christian must not isolate himself. For many people in the world, life has ceased to be “tasty” and equally “bright” and also “pleasant”; because of themselves and others, they experienced the disappointment of life.

Do you have experience with people who have no reason to live? They don’t enjoy life, they don’t know how to enjoy themselves, they are often a burden to those around them, but also to themselves. What Jesus Christ talks about in today’s gospel are the beatitudes (cf. Mt 5:1). Jesus’ speech, as delivered by the evangelist Matthew, represents a new perspective on the meaning and activity of man – both towards God, his neighbor and himself.

The Beatitudes raise the question of who, in Jesus’ understanding, are “poor, weeping, silent, hungry for justice, merciful, pure of heart, spreading peace, persecuted, reviled”? Questions beget answers, but they all have one thing in common: they will be rewarded. Jesus explains these requirements at the beginning of his activity gradually during his public performance. This speech is considered the most beautiful and at the same time the most Christian and exemplary evangelization. At the same time, the text is difficult and demanding, it needs an explanation. The Church accepts these words of Christ as a synthesis of the commands of the Gospel, a kind of constitutional law of Christian morality. For worldly ethics, Christ’s words are utopia, words far from life and also dangerous for the structures of dreaming and dreaming. These words caused and still cause many discussions today. These are words that really shock. This is because Jesus points to a new image of the world, which is based on other values, which he relied on and still relies on the world that does not believe in God. Jesus’ words point to the idea that God had for man when he created him. Indeed, these words are in contrast to what we encounter in ordinary life. Even in non-believers, when they pay adequate attention to them, the words evoke a positive view of Christ and his teachings. Jesus places a radical emphasis on this model of life and calls it his program. He convinces us of this with his own life.

Jesus addresses the words on the mountain to all who believe in his divinity. That is, not only to listen to the words, but also to fulfill them in life. It is a challenge – to adopt the spirit of these words. Although the words caused astonishment in the crowd, the crowd was equally amazed at Jesus’ teaching. It is the demand of a new heart “metanoia”, the moral rebirth of man, as Jesus explained to Nicodemus later that night. A Christian who knows how to renounce himself will find wisdom and justice, sanctification and redemption in Christ. After two millennia, today we know more clearly what Jesus meant when he announced the beatitudes at the beginning of his public appearance.

Jesus’ words are proof that all our happiness, even if we combine them, will not cause in us the happiness that we will achieve with Christ. Who will count the disappointments, disgusts and the like, on which people based themselves while avoiding the clear demand of Christ..? Wealth, fame, power, which a person strives for, for which he sacrifices time, effort, health, often even family, friends and others, will not make him happy