[Grem] *****SPAM(5.2)***** Gospel meditation

[Emoke Greschik]

Friends, we must attend to the mystical depth of today’s Gospel.
* At the break of dawn, the disciples spy a mysterious figure on the
distant shore who shouts out to them, “Children, have you caught anything
to eat?” When they answer in the negative, he instructs them to cast the
net over the right side of the ship. When they do, they bring in a huge
catch of fish. *

*This fishing expedition is a symbol of the Church (the barque of Peter),
across* *space and time*,
*at its apostolic task of seeking souls. The life and work of the Church,
John seems to be telling us, will be a lengthy, twilight struggle, a hard
toil that will often seem to bear little or no fruit. But after the long
night, the dawn of a new life and a new order will break, the transfigured
world inaugurated by Jesus. The catch of fish that he makes possible is the
totality of people that Christ will gather to himself; it is the new
Israel, the eschatological Church. *

We know this through a subtle bit of symbolism. *When the fish are dragged
ashore, John bothers to tell us their exact number, 153*—*a figure commonly
taken in the ancient world to signify the total number of species of fish
in the sea.*


*Imádkozzál érettünk, Istennek szent Anyja!  Hogy méltók lehessünk Krisztus
ígéreteire!  Könyörögjünk! Kérünk téged, Úristen, öntsd lelkünkbe szent
kegyelmedet, hogy akik az angyali üzenet által szent Fiadnak, Jézus
Krisztusnak megtestesülését megismertük, az ő kínszenvedése és keresztje
által a föltámadás dicsőségébe vitessünk! Krisztus, a mi Urunk által. Ámen.*

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