[Grem] Advent 2. csütörtökje szentmiséje igéi

[Emoke Greschik]

*Friends, in today’s Gospel Jesus says to the crowds: "From the days of
John the Baptist until now, the Kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the
violent are taking it by force."The name of Flannery O’Connor’s second
novel was taken from the Douay-Rheims translation of this last line: "the
violent bear it away." What do we make of this strange and famously
ambiguous wording? Many have taken it to mean that the kingdom of God is
attacked by violent people, such as those who killed John the Baptist, and
that they threaten to take it away. But others have interpreted it in the
opposite direction, as a word of praise to the spiritually violent who
manage to get into the kingdom. O’Connor herself sides with this latter
group. In one of her letters, she says, "St. Thomas’s gloss on this verse
is that the violent Christ is here talking about represent those ascetics
who strain against mere nature. St. Augustine concurs."The "mere nature"
that classical Christianity describes is a fallen nature, one that tends
away from God and his demands. The "violent," on this reading, are those
spiritually heroic types who resist the promptings and tendencies of this
nature and seek to discipline it in order to enter into the kingdom of God.*
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