[Grem] A mai nagyböjti szentmise igéi Jeruzsálemi Szt. Ciril püsp. és egyháztanító ünnepén

[Emoke Greschik]

*Friends, today’s Gospel compares the self-centered prayer of the Pharisee
with the God-centered prayer of the tax collector.The Pharisee spoke his
prayer to himself. This is, Jesus suggests, a fraudulent, wholly inadequate
prayer, precisely because it simply confirms the man in his self-regard.
And the god to which he prays is, necessarily, a false god, an idol, since
it allows itself to be positioned by the ego-driven needs of the Pharisee.
But then Jesus invites us to meditate upon the tax collector’s prayer: he
“beat his breast and prayed, ‘O God, be merciful to me a sinner.’” Though
it is articulate speech, it is not language that confirms the independence
and power of the speaker; just the contrary. It is more of a cry or a
groan, an acknowledgement that he needs to receive something, this
mysterious mercy for which he begs.In the first prayer, “god” is the
principal member of the audience arrayed before the ego of the Pharisee.
But in this second prayer, God is the principal actor, and the tax
collector is the audience awaiting a performance the contours of which he
cannot fully foressee.  *

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

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