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

[Emoke Greschik]

*Friends, in today’s Gospel Jesus asks: "If a man has a hundred sheep and
one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine in the hills and
go in search of the stray?" Well, of course not! No self-respecting
shepherd would ever think of doing that. If you were a shepherd, you’d cut
your losses. That sheep is probably dead anyway if it wandered far enough
away. But we are to understand that God is like that foolish shepherd.
God’s love throws caution to the wind to seek out the lost sheep. We might
expect God to be good to those who are good, and kind to those who follow
his commandments. Those who don’t, who wander away, are simply lost. God
might give them a few minutes, but then they’re on their own. No; God is
like this kooky shepherd. God loves irrationally, exuberantly risking it
all in order to find the one who wandered away. What good news: God does
not love according to a strict justice on our terms, but loves in his own
extravagant way.*
*Reflect: Meditate on a time when you were the one lost sheep and received
the extravagant, irrational love of God.*

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