[Grem] A mai szentmise igéi Gonzága Szt. Alajos ünnepén

[Emoke Greschik]

*Friends in today’s Gospel, Jesus prescribes the essential disciplines of
prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. Let’s focus on fasting and almsgiving.The
appetites for food and drink are so pressing, so elemental, that, unless
they are quelled and disciplined, they will simply take over the soul. They
are like children who clamor constantly for attention and who, if indulged,
will in short order run the house.Therefore, if the passion for God is to
be awakened, the more immediately pressing desires must be muted, and this
is the purpose of fasting. We go hungry and thirsty so that the deepest
hunger and thirst might be felt. In a way, fasting is like the “calming of
the monkey mind” effected by the Rosary: both are means of settling the
superficial mind that darts from preoccupation to preoccupation.But food
and drink are not the only objects of concupiscent desire. Material things
and wealth are also ready substitutes for the passion for God. Thus, a kind
of fasting from what money can buy is an important practice. How often
Jesus recommends that his disciples give to the poor, and how often
throughout the Christian tradition has almsgiving been emphasized.*

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