Brother Csaba was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, then he was trampled into the mud. Maybe he didn't manage to save every single soul, maybe he made a mistake, but he always trusted people. Written by Levente Csender.

We have been working with brother Csaba for three years. During this time, two herbal books were published, the first is already in its sixth edition, it was recently published in English, and we are also preparing the Polish translation. The second herbal book also holds up well.

It all started on Christmas 2019, when we were writing a biographical book entitled Miracle every day When we started working, I realized that brother Csaba was a bigger topic than just throwing together a biography book. He said that the biographical book will be good post mortem , I insisted that it is better to get it in hand in this life, because then I will write what I want.

In the meantime, brother Csaba was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, then he was trampled into the mud.

Despite the six thousand raised children, the thousand grandchildren, a single stain is enough to knock the saint of our time into the ground in a minute, push him into some dark tunnel, and the people of the Internet to comment on him and start bombing the Szent Ferenc Déva Foundation as well.

We don't need saints, we live in a desacralized world, while there has never been a greater need for prayer, keeping the mind and soul clean than today. Do good as Christ did, but you must know that you will be crucified for it. the title of the biographical book became instead of Every Day, from Light and Mud

Due to the scandal, the publisher postponed the publication of the book for half a year.

On our first trip, Brother Csaba told us that thirty years ago, eighty percent of the people who came to him had social problems: they had nothing to eat, no clothes, no place to live, but now eighty percent of the people who come to him are struggling with mental problems. He has been thinking for a long time that he should create the 100th house for people with mental problems, because today the problem is not the children, because the children he took in back then are not even born, but the lost, suffering from mental disorders, alcohol and drugs young people and adults languishing in captivity should have that biblical hundredth-century house.

Over the past three years, I managed to get to know brother Csaba a little. We talked a lot, I know a lot more about him than before, but I don't think everything. Maybe he doesn't know everything about himself either, because as he said,

"it is not important what I want, but what Jesus Christ wants from me".

What is important is not who he is, but whether he was able to perform the tasks that God entrusted to him well. What he has undertaken is undoubtedly superhuman.

How much we can moan without children, or with one or two children! - he doesn't complain even after six thousand. Maybe he didn't manage to save every single soul, maybe he made a mistake, maybe he sees his limits, but he always trusted in the Good Lord, always trusted in the children, always trusted in his colleagues, always trusted in people. He gave everyone a second chance, he didn't ask for applause, he did his job to the best of his knowledge and conscience. I'm sure he also prays for those who hurt him, and he still believes in them, lighting the light.

Perhaps lately you have seen the face of the suffering Christ on his face, behind the human face... This human face can be trampled in the mud, but the face of the suffering Christ looks back at us from behind the human face - it cannot be hurt.

The greater the suffering, the stronger is the arm of Christ that lifts up the man trampled in the mud,

because love and goodness will win over human frailty. If someone not only proclaims that it is good to do good, it is good to be good, but also does it in every moment of his life, with every particle, every nerve, and every will, then he cannot lose, then he will win. Just as Jesus Christ overcame human evil at Easter, this Franciscan monk will also overcome human sin and malice. He may now have to walk the depths that even he did not think of. He must take the cross on his back—someone else's cross too—and go up to the mountain of Calvary to be crucified for the sins of others. He may be crucified, but I believe he will defeat evil in this dehumanized world, and no matter what happens to him,

behind his human face will forever be the face of the resurrected Christ.

The book cover is ready, on which brother Csaba is walking in the forest, in a wrinkled habit, with a bag of chanterelle mushrooms in his hand, somewhere near Lake Szent Anna. I'm hoping to have it out by Holiday Book Week this year and not have to write another chapter.

Featured image: István Biró | MTI/MTVA