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[Emoke Greschik]

*Friends, the Gospel for today presents Matthew’s version of the
Incarnation.The central claim of Christianity—still startling after two
thousand years—is that God became human. The creator of the cosmos, who
transcends any definition or concept, took to himself a nature like ours,
becoming one of us. Christianity asserts that the infinite and the finite
met, that the eternal and the temporal embraced, that the fashioner of the
galaxies and planets became a baby too weak even to raise his head.And to
make the humor even more pointed, this incarnation of God was first made
manifest not in Rome, Athens, or Babylon, not in a great cultural or
political capital, but in Bethlehem of Judea, a tiny outpost in the corner
of the Roman Empire. One might laugh derisively at this joke—as many have
over the centuries—but, as G.K. Chesterton observed, the heart of even the
most skeptical person is changed simply for having heard this message.
Christian believers up and down the years are those who have laughed with
delight at this sacred joke and have never tired of hearing it
repeated.Reflect: Reflect on the nature of God’s love–that he would stoop
down to become one of his creatures and be born into poverty and obscurity.
Íme, jön a te királyod, igaz és szabadító Ő'.    (Zak 9, 9) *
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