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

[Emoke Greschik]

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> *Friends, a long tradition stresses the perseverance of the Canaanite
> woman we meet in today’s Gospel. Augustine says that we pray in order to
> expand our will to accept what God is going to give us. Another reading
> shows how the woman exemplifies the proper attitude toward God, a
> combination of humility and boldness, of deference and defiance. We are
> creatures and God is God; nevertheless, God invites us into intimacy with
> him. But I want to emphasize the reading conditioned by the "other." The
> Old Testament speaks insistently of the "stranger, the widow, and the
> orphan." The ethical life, in a biblical framework, is about the press of
> these people upon us. They press upon us even when we would greatly prefer
> them just to go away. We the Church are the Body of Christ. And so people
> come to us demanding food, sustenance, friendship, love, shelter, or
> liberation. Often we are tempted to do what Jesus does initially and what
> the disciples do: tell them to back off. We are overloaded, busy, and
> preoccupied. We can’t be bothered. But the whole of the Christian life
> consists in remembering the suffering and need of the annoying other.*
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