[Grem] *****SPAM(6.2)***** Re: A mai adventi vasárnapi szentmise igéi

[Emoke Greschik]

 *Friends, today’s Gospel presents John the Baptist *as a revolutionary.

*Advent is best understood as a preparation for a revolution*. The
liturgical readings for this time of the year—focusing on Isaiah, John the
Baptist, Mary, and Jesus—positively crackle with energy and electricity.
When we seek to understand them on the



*ir own terms and in the context of the time in which they were written, we
discover their revolutionary power. Around the year 30, an alarming figure
appeared in the Judean desert, wearing animal skins and eating locusts and
wild honey; and his theme hearkened back to the prophet Isaiah: "Prepare
the way of the Lord, make straight his paths." John the Baptist was telling
his listeners to make ready for the arrival of the God of Israel as a
conquering King who would, once again, overthrow the oppressors of his
people.And the revolution arrived in the person of a young Galilean rabbi,
whose message was simple and unambiguous: "Repent, for the kingdom of God
is at hand." Jesus was saying that *the new King has arrived and he’s begun
his work;

*so change your lives and come under his lordship.*
*Reflect: How can truly living the Gospel today be as countercultural as
John the Baptist was in his time?*

*Ó bűn nélkül fogantatott Szűz Mária, könyörögj értünk, kik hozzád
menekülünk. *





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