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

[Emoke Greschik]

*Friends, in today’s Gospel Jesus charges us to be merciful and to stop
judging others. But we cannot perform such behaviors on our own strength—we
need God’s assistance. In the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew, Jesus tells
his followers: "Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect."
The perfection that he urges—which includes a radical love of enemies, the
practice of nonviolence in the face of aggression, the refusal to judge
one’s brothers and sisters, and an embrace of poverty, meekness, and
simplicity of heart—is not desirable or even possible within a natural
framework. The form of life outlined in the Sermon on the Mount would
strike Aristotle as excessive and irrational—and that is just the point.
Its viability and beauty will emerge only when one’s mind, will, and body
have been invaded and elevated by the love that God is. This is not to say
that the natural moral excellences perceived by Aristotle are invalidated
by grace; the invasion of the sacred does not overwhelm or undermine the
secular. But it does indeed transfigure it. This transfiguration is the
effect of love, working its way through the moral self. Reflect: When faced
with the command of Jesus to "be perfect," do you try harder, give up, or
surrender to grace? If you surrender, what does that surrender look like? Ó
bűn nélkül fogantatott Szűz Mária, könyörögj értünk, kik hozzád menekülünk!
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