[Grem] A mai szentmise igéi

[Emoke Greschik]

*Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus tells the crowd, which he just fed, to
believe in him and relate to him personally. Why is this so hard? Well, it
is intellectually counter-intuitive. Why would this one figure, this Jesus,
be the one and only? Why should I choose to relate to him and not the
numerous other religious leaders and philosophers? Are all other religious
people just lost or misguided? Wouldn’t it just be easier to relate to
Jesus’ ideas and principles, to imitate his style of life? Yes, indeed it
would, but that’s not what he says. Perhaps we could look at it from Jesus’
side. Jesus wants to be friends: “‘I no longer call you servants, but
friends,’ says the Lord.” What if there were someone who wanted to be
friends with you, and you were to say, “Oh sure! I admire you and would
like to imitate your form of life, but I don’t want to spend a lot of time
with you.” How would that strike your prospective friend? What is unique to
Christianity is that God is offering us friendship. You don’t mess around
with friendship; you don’t turn it into something abstract; you don’t
compromise with it. You enter into it fully.*
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