[Grem] A mai nagyböjti szentmise igéi Szt. Polikárp püspok, vértanú ünnepén

[Emoke Greschik]

*Friends, in today’s Gospel, the Lord lays out the conditions for
discipleship. He makes this demand: "For whoever wishes to save his life
will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it."Notice
please that this is not simply a question of accepting suffering that
happens to befall one. This is not simply a Stoic resignation. Jesus is
telling us actively to take up our crosses, to seek them out, to carry them
as he willingly carried his. What Jesus did on the cross was bear the
burden of the world’s sin. He bore others’ burdens in love. And this is
what we must do: actively, proactively seek out ways to lighten other
people’s loads.Dietrich Bonhoeffer commented that when the Lord summons a
person to discipleship, he calls him to come and die. When the blind
Bartimaeus received his sight, at the midpoint of the Gospel of Mark, he
followed Jesus up the road that would lead to Calvary. The way of the
Christian life begins and ends with the man who is God dying on a
cross.Dicsőség az Atyának, a Fiúnak és a Szentléleknek most és mindörökké.
Ámen.*
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