[Grem] *****SPAM(5.2)***** Re: A mai nagyböjti szentmise igéi

[Emoke Greschik]

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> *Friends, in today’s Gospel we find the beautiful healing of a paralyzed
> man who had been ill for thirty-eight years. Jesus sees the man lying on
> his mat, next to a pool, and asks, "Do you want to be well?" The man
> answers him, and Jesus replies, "Rise, take up your mat, and walk."
> Immediately, the man is healed. Now at this point, the story really heats
> up. We notice something that is frequently on display in the Gospels: the
> resistance to the creative work of God, the attempt to find any excuse,
> however lame, to deny it, to pretend it’s not there, to condemn it. One
> would expect that everyone around the cured man would rejoice, but just the
> contrary: the Jewish leaders are infuriated and confounded. They see the
> healed man and their first response is, "It is the Sabbath, and it is not
> lawful for you to carry your mat." Why are they so reactive? Why don’t they
> want this to be? We sinners don’t like the ways of God. We find them
> troubling and threatening. Why? Because they undermine the games of
> oppression and exclusion that we rely upon in order to boost our own egos.
> Let this encounter remind us that God’s ways are not our ways, and that
> there is one even greater than the Sabbatíh. Reflect: God created the
> Sabbath for a particular purpose. What was that purpose and how is the
> Sabbath honored and kept today? *
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