[Grem] A mai vasárnapi szentmise igéi

Emoke Greschik greschem at gmail.com
2018. Aug. 26., V, 14:14:28 CEST


*Friends, we come today to the end of the extraordinary sixth chapter of
John’s Gospel. Before this, Jesus told his listeners, "Unless you gnaw on
the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you."
Well, today, we have the denouement of the story. We hear that "many of
Jesus’ disciples who were listening said, ‘This saying is hard; who can
accept it?’" Notice that we are talking about Jesus’ followers. And yet
they find this teaching impossible to take. If his words were meant in a
symbolic sense, they wouldn’t have had this shocking effect. If what he
meant was simply, This bread is a symbol of my body, why would there be
such a strong reaction? I mean, the Jewish Scriptures deal in poetic
metaphor all the time. The point is that they had understood him in this
context only too well. Given every opportunity to explain himself better,
Jesus does nothing of the kind. Instead, he upbraids them for their lack of
faith. This is why the Catholic tradition has insisted, against all
attempts to soften these words of Jesus, that he should be taken
straightforwardly. *
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