[Grem] A mai nagyböjti szentmise igéi

[Emoke Greschik]

*Friends, today’s Gospel, we find the beautiful healing of a paralyzed man
who had been ill for thirty-eight years. Jesus sees the man lying on his
mat next to a pool and asks, "Do you want to be well?" The man says yes,
and Jesus replies, "Rise, take up your mat, and walk." Immediately, the man
is healed.Now at this point, the story really heats up. We notice something
that is frequently on display in the Gospels: the resistance to the
creative work of God, the attempt to find any excuse, however lame, to deny
it, to pretend it’s not there, to condemn it.One would expect that everyone
around the cured man would rejoice, but just the contrary: the Jewish
leaders are infuriated and confounded. They see the healed man, and their
first response is, "It is the sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to
carry your mat."Why are they so reactive? Why don’t they want this to be?
We sinners don’t like the ways of God. We find them troubling and
threatening. Why? Because they undermine the games of oppression and
exclusion that we rely upon in order to boost our own egos. Let this
encounter remind us that God’s ways are not our ways, and that there is one
even greater than the sabbath.*


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

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