[Grem] A mai adventi szentmise igéi Szt. Ambrus ünnepén

[Emoke Greschik]

* Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus offers to free us from the burden of
our pride.What is it that makes our lives heavy and weighed down? Precisely
the burden of our own egos, the weight of one’s own self. When I am puffing
myself up with my own self-importance, I’m laboring under all that weight.
Jesus is saying, "Become a child. Take that weight off your shoulders and
put on the weight of my yoke, the yoke of my obedience to the Father."
Anthony de Mello proposed the following parable to describe our prideful
souls. A group of people sit on a bus that is passing through the most
glorious countryside, but they have the shades pulled down on all the
windows and are bickering about who gets front seat on the bus. This is the
burden of pride: preferring the narrow and stuffy confines of the bus to
the beauty that is effortlessly available all around. This, of course, is
why Jesus can say, "My yoke is easy and my burden is light." What the Lord
proposes is not a freedom from suffering but, what is much more important,
a freedom from the self.*

*Dicsőség az Atyának, a Fiúnak és a Szentléleknek. Most és mindörökké.
Ámen.*
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