[Grem] Gospel meditation

[Emoke Greschik]

 Friends, *today’s Gospel declares that the Son of God does not ration his
gift of the Spirit. At the cathedral in Chartres, the figure of Jesus is
surrounded by seven doves, symbolizing these seven gifts of the Holy
Spirit: wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and
fear of the Lord. The Messiah will be filled up with all of the powers and
energies of God’s Spirit.*

*These seven gifts have played a prominent role in our tradition, appearing
in theologians as diverse as Gregory the Great*, *Augustine, and Thomas
Aquinas. These gifts are signs that the Christian is participating in Jesus
Christ. In holding up this image, therefore, the Church is asking us to
meditate on the people that we are called to be: participants in Jesus.*

*How does one come by these gifts? We can’t really earn them or work our
way toward them*. *But they do come from Jesus Christ, and therefore from
our proximity to him through the Church and the sacraments*. *As we wait in
joyful hope for the coming of the Lord, pray for the conformity to him that
consists in the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit.*

*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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