[Grem] A mai szentmise igéi Szt. Hiláriusz (Vidor) püspök és egyháztanító ünnepén

[Emoke Greschik]

*Friends, in our Gospel today, Jesus says matter-of-factly, before healing
the paralytic, “Child, your sins are forgiven.” Shocked, the Pharisees
respond, “He is blaspheming. Who but God alone can forgive sins?”They were
quite right, of course, which is the whole point. If you had hurt me, I
could with some legitimacy offer you my personal forgiveness of your
offense. But if someone else had harmed you, I could scarcely offer that
person my forgiveness for his sin. The only way that such a statement could
be anything but blasphemous would be if I were the one who is offended in
every sin. And this is what the Pharisees correctly intuit.G.K. Chesterton
said that even those who reject the doctrine of the Incarnation (like the
Pharisees) are different for having heard it. The claim that God became one
of us changes the imagination, compelling a reassessment of both God and
the world. This odd assertion is made, implicitly or explicitly, on
practically every page of the New Testament.*
*Therefore, when Jesus forgives the paralytic’s sin, the Pharisees respond
that only God can forgive sins, thereby, despite themselves, professing
faith in the Good News.*

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