[Grem] A mai adventi szentmise igéi

[Emoke Greschik]

*Friends, our Gospel today is from the first chapter of the Gospel of Luke,
which is thoroughly drenched in Davidic themes from the Old Testament. The
first thing we hear about Zechariah is that he serves as priest in the
Jerusalem temple; and David’s dream was to build the temple in which
Zechariah serves. While in the sanctuary, Zechariah is visited by the angel
Gabriel; and the temple locale and the announcement of the birth of a child
against all expectations brings us back to Hannah’s pregnancy, which
resulted in the birth of the forerunner to David. Indeed, Elizabeth’s words
upon conceiving—"So has the Lord done for me at a time when he has seen fit
to take away my disgrace before others"—powerfully evoke Hannah’s frame of
mind when she, after many tears and much prayer, finally became pregnant. *

*What does this have to do with the life of Jesus? From beginning to end of
his preaching career, Jesus’s central theme was the arrival of the kingdom
of God, which was understood to mean the ingathering of the scattered
tribes of Israel. And what becomes eminently clear in all of the Gospels is
that this coming together would happen in and through Jesus himself, much
as the knitting together of ancient Israel happened in the person of David.
Jesus definitively fulfills what David himself left incomplete and
unfinished. *

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