[Grem] *****SPAM(5.3)***** Re: A mai szentmise igéi

[Emoke Greschik]

*Friends, our Gospel today tells the story of a woman who—in the house of
Simon the Pharisee—approaches Jesus, weeping onto his feet and anointing
them with oil. She is filled with a love for Christ that overflows in acts
of self-offering and service; she breaks open her own heart in gratitude.
But Simon has shown scant hospitality to his guest, offering little if
anything of himself to Christ. The abundance of the woman’s love discloses
something to Jesus that had obviously been invisible to Simon: she has been
forgiven much. “Therefore, I tell you, her sins, which were many, have been
forgiven; hence she has shown great love.” It is most important to note
that Jesus does not, strictly speaking, forgive her sins; rather, he
notices that she has been forgiven. And the evidence for it is her
self-forgetting love. She loves so passionately and so courageously
(risking the disapproval of Simon’s elegant guests) precisely because she
has been so graciously and abundantly forgiven. *
*It is decidedly not the case, Jesus implies, that love precedes divine
forgiveness as a sort of prerequisite; on the contrary, forgiveness
precedes love as the condition for its possibility. It is not the case that
one’s moral life must be upright in order to win divine favor; rather, the
sheer gift of God’s favor tends to produce an upright moral life, a life of
love.*














* Krisztus lelke, szentelj meg engem! Krisztus teste, üdvözíts engem!
Krisztus vére, ihless meg engem! Krisztus oldalából kifolyó víz, moss
tisztára engem! Krisztus kínszenvedése, erősíts meg engem! Ó, jóságos
Jézus, hallgass meg engem! Szent sebeidbe rejts el engem! Ne engedd, hogy
elszakadjak tőled! A gonosz ellenségtől oltalmazz engem! Halálom óráján
hívj magadhoz engem! Add, hogy eljussak hozzád, és szentjeiddel dicsérjelek
téged, mindörökkön-örökké. Ámen. *
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