[Grem] A mai szentmise igéi

[Emoke Greschik]

*Friends, in today’s Gospel John the Baptist identifies himself as "the
voice of one crying out in the desert." How often the great heroes of the
Biblical revelation have to spend time in the desert: Abraham, Moses, John
the Baptist, Paul. Even Jesus himself spends forty days and nights in the
desert before commencing his ministry. They have to wait through a painful
time, living a stripped-down life, before they are ready. What does the
desert symbolize? Confrontation with one’s own sin; seeing one’s dark side;
a deep realization of one’s dependency upon God; an ordering of the
priorities of one’s life; a simplification, a getting back to basics. It
means any and all of these things. But the bottom line is that they are
compelled to wait, during a time and in a place where very little life
seems to be on offer. But it is precisely in such deserts that the flowers
bloom. Moses becomes a great leader; Abraham is the father of many nations;
Joseph becomes the savior of his people; John the Baptist is the forerunner
of the Messiah; Paul is the Apostle to the Gentiles—all of this flowering
was made possible by the desert.*
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