[Grem] A mai szentmise igéi

[Emoke Greschik]

*Friends, in today’s Gospel we meet a prudent steward who serves his master
wisely. I would like to say something about prudence and wisdom. In the
Middle Ages, prudence was called “the queen of the virtues,” because it was
the virtue that enabled one to do the right thing in a particular
situation. Prudence is a feel for the moral situation, something like the
feel that a quarterback has for the playing field. Justice is a wonderful
virtue, but without prudence, it is blind and finally useless. One can be
as just as possible, but without a feel for the present situation, his
justice will do him no good. Wisdom, unlike prudence, is a sense of the big
picture. *It is the view from the hilltop.

* Most of us look at our lives from the standpoint of our own
self-interest. But wisdom is the capacity to survey reality from the
vantage point of God. Without wisdom, even the most prudent judgment will
be erroneous, short-sighted, inadequate. **The combination,*
therefore, of *prudence
and wisdom* is especially powerful. *Someone who is both wise and prudent
will have both a sense of the bigger picture and a feel for the particular
situation. *
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