[Grem] A mai nagyböjti szentmise igéi

[Emoke Greschik]

* Friends, today’s Gospel tells the story of the Lord calling Levi, also
known as Matthew. As Jesus was passing by, he spotted Matthew at his tax
collector’s post. To be a tax collector in Jesus’ time—a Jew collaborating
with Rome’s oppression of one’s own people—was to be a contemptible
figure.Jesus gazed at Matthew and simply said, “Follow me.” Did Jesus
invite Matthew because the tax collector merited it? Was Jesus responding
to a request from Matthew or some longing in the sinner’s heart? Certainly
not. Grace, by definition, comes unbidden and without explanation.In
Caravaggio’s magnificent painting of this scene, Matthew, dressed
anachronistically in sixteenth-century finery, responds to Jesus’ summons
by pointing incredulously to himself and wearing a quizzical expression, as
if to say, “Me? You want me?”*
*Just as creation is ex nihilo, so conversion is a new creation, a gracious
remaking of a person from the nonbeing of his sin.* *Matthew*, we are
told, *immediately
got up and followed the Lord.*

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