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

[Emoke Greschik]

*Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus declares that he has come to fulfill the
Law. The same Jesus who railed against the hypocritical legalism of the
Pharisees also said, "I have come not to abolish the law but to fulfill
it." And the same Jesus who threatened to tear down the temple in Jerusalem
also promised "raise it up" in three days. The point is this:Jesus *



*certainly criticized the corruption in the institutional religion of his
time, but he by no means called for its wholesale dismantling. He was a
loyal, observant, law-abiding Jew. What he effected was a transfiguration
of the best of that classical Israelite religion—temple, law, priesthood,
sacrifice, covenant—into the institutions, sacraments, practices, and
structures of his Mystical Body, the Church. Lots of New Age devotees today
want spirituality without religion, and lots of evangelicals want Jesus
without religion. Both end up with abstractions. But the one thing Jesus is
not is an abstraction. Rather, he is a spiritual power who makes himself
available precisely in the dense institutional particularity of his
Mystical Body **across space and time*.

* Jesus didn’t come to abolish religion; he came to fulfill it.*
*Reflect: What is the difference between criticizing the Church and calling
for its dismantling? How can you follow Jesus’ lead and work to address the
issues within the Church today?*
* Ó bűn nélkül fogantatott Szűz Mária, könyörögj értünk, kik hozzád
menekülünk! *
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