[Grem] A mai szentmise igéi

[Emoke Greschik]

*Bishop Barron evangéliumi elmélkedése a tegnapi "JÉZUS
MEGKERESZTELKEDÉSE"  evangéliumról és a KERESZTSÉG SZENTSÉGÉRŐL:*

*Friends, Matthew’s account of Jesus’ baptism points to the significance of
this foundational sacrament.*





*Listen to the great theologian Gregory of Nazianzen: “Baptism is God’s
most beautiful and magnificent gift. . . . It is called ‘gift’ because it
is conferred on those who bring nothing of their own; ‘grace’ since it is
given even to the guilty.” Jesus said, “It was not you who chose me, but I
who chose you.” Baptism is the sacramental ratification of that choice.And
this is why we speak of Baptism as justifying us and washing away our sin.
We are—all of us—born into a deeply dysfunctional world, a world
conditioned by millenia of selfishness, cruelty, injustice, stupidity, and
fear. This has created a poisonous atmosphere that conditions all of our
thoughts and moves and actions. *

*Do you see why the stress on grace is so important? Baptism is the moment
when the Holy Spirit draws us out of this fallen world and into a new
world, the very life of the Trinity. That’s why Baptism involves being born
again, lifted up, enlightened, transformed, saved—and why the Church speaks
of the baptized as a “new creature". *

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