[Grem] Advent 3. vasárnapja szentmiséje igéi

[Emoke Greschik]

*Friends, like those in the time of John the Baptist, we ask: "What should
we do?" How should we live our lives?This question, of course, tells us
something else about repentance: that it has to do with action more than
simply changing our minds. The spiritual life is, finally, a set of
behaviors.So what does John the Baptist tell us to do? His first
recommendation is this: "Whoever has two cloaks should share with the
person who has none." This is so basic, so elemental—yet so almost
thoroughly ignored! In the Church’s social teaching, we find a constant
reminder that although private property is a social good, the use of our
private property must always have a social orientation. An early Church
Father, St. Basil the Great, expressed the idea in tones that echo John the
Baptist: "The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry. The cloak in
your wardrobe belongs to the naked. The shoes you allow to rot belong to
the barefoot. The money in your vaults belongs to the destitute. You do
injustice to every man whom you could help but do not." So what should we
do this Advent, we who seek repentance, we who await the coming of the
Messiah? Serve justice, render to each his due, and give to those who are
in need.*
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