[Grem] *****SPAM(5.4)***** Re: Advent 2. vasárnapja szentmiséje igéi

[Emoke Greschik]

*Friends, today’s Gospel presents John the Baptist as a revolutionary.*Advent
is best understood as a preparation for a revolution.





*The liturgical readings for this time of the year—focusing on Isaiah, John
the Baptist, Mary, and Jesus—positively crackle with energy and
electricity. When we seek to understand them on their own terms and in the
context of the time in which they were written, we discover their
revolutionary power. Around the year 30, an alarming figure appeared in the
Judean desert, wearing animal skins and eating locusts and wild honey; and
his theme hearkened back to the prophet Isaiah: "Prepare the way of the
Lord, make straight his paths." John the Baptist was telling his listeners
to make ready for the arrival of the God of Israel as a conquering King who
would, once again, overthrow the oppressors of his people.And the
revolution arrived in the person of a young Galilean rabbi, whose message
was simple and unambiguous: "Repent, for the kingdom of God is at hand."
Jesus was saying that the new King has arrived and he’s begun his work; so
change your lives and come under his lordship.*
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