[Grem] Gospel meditation

[Emoke Greschik]

 Friends, *our Gospel today celebrates the female disciples of Jesus*. One
of the principal marks of Jesus’ teaching is the overturning of social
conventions. In service of what he calls the kingdom of God, God’s way of
ordering the world, he says and does all sorts of outrageous things.
And * one of the most striking and surprising of Jesus’ moves is a radical
inclusion of women. He allows women into his inner circle (practically
unheard of for a rabbi).* *He speaks publicly to the woman at the well. He
engages with the Syro-Phoenician woman. He forgives the woman caught in
adultery. And the first witnesses of the Resurrection are women.*
*Luke, who told this story, was a companion of Paul, and his Gospel
reflects many of Paul’s themes. Paul famously says that in Christ*,* “There
is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free person, there is
not male and female.” This was very radical stuff in those times, for* *these
were some of the most basic social divisions of the ancient world. Free men
were a lot better off than slaves, Jews had huge advantages over Greeks,
and males were seen as superior to females. But not anymore—not in light of
the kingdom of God that Jesus announces.*
Given all of this, can we see *these women disciples as forerunners of all
of the great women who have followed Jesus over the centuries?* Can we see
them as* prototypes of Teresa of Avila, Joan of Arc, Clare of Assisi,
Thérèse of Lisieux, Teresa of Kolkata, Katharine Drexel, Edith Stein, and
Dorothy Day? *

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