[Grem] A mai nagyböjti szentmise igéi

[Emoke Greschik]

 Friends







*, today’s Gospel urges us to persist in prayer. The Lord wants us to ask
with persistence, even stubbornness.Now, we must not think of God as
becoming exasperated by our prayer of petition, but the clear implication
is that we will get what we want through persistence: "Ask and it will be
given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to
you."How do we make sense of this? For me, the best explanation is offered
by St. Augustine. He said that God doesn’t always give us immediately what
we ask for, and in fact, he compels us to ask again and again. The Lord
wants to stretch us, expanding our desire so as to receive the gift he
desires to give us. If we got everything we wanted, right away and without
effort, we wouldn’t appreciate what we’ve received, and we wouldn’t really
be capable of taking it in. It would be like pouring new wine into old,
shrunken wineskins, resulting in a loss of both the skins and the wine.*

*So if the gift doesn’t come right away, don’t despair; rather, feel your
very soul expanding in anticipation.  *

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