[Grem] A mai szentmise igéi Szt. Szilveszter pápa ünnepén

[Emoke Greschik]

*Friends, today’s Gospel comes to its climax with the magnificent phrase:
"And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us."  The Gnostic
temptation has tugged at the Church, on and off, for nearly the past two
thousand years. This is the suggestion, common to all forms of Puritanism,
that the spiritual is attained through a negation of the material. But
authentic Christianity, inspired by this stunning claim of St. John, has
consistently held off Gnosticism, for it knows that the Word of God took to
himself a human nature and thereby elevated all of matter and made it a
sacrament of the divine presence.The Greek phrase behind "made his dwelling
among us" is literally translated as "tabernacled among us" or "pitched his
tent among us." No Jew of John’s time would have missed the wonderful
connection implied between Jesus and the temple. According to the book of
Exodus, the ark of the covenant—the embodiment of Yahweh’s presence—was
originally housed in a tent or tabernacle. The evangelist is telling us
that now, in the flesh of Jesus, Yahweh has established his definitive
tabernacle among us.  *


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