[Grem] *****SPAM(5.2)***** Gospel meditation (Bp. Barron)

[Emoke Greschik]

Friends, our Gospel today is *the parable that compares the kingdom of
heaven with “ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the
bridegroom.”* This is an image borrowed from the customs of the time. The
bridesmaids would wait for the groom and, upon his appearance, accompany
him.

Well,* this is the Christian community, waiting for Christ the groom to
arrive*. Did Jesus tell this parable because he knew that his Church would
be in for a long period of waiting?
*We are wise in our waiting if we pray on a regular basis; if we educate
ourselves in the faith; if we participate in the sacraments, especially the
Eucharist; if we perform the corporal and spiritual works of mercy; if we
become people of love.* *We are foolish in our waiting if we neglect* *these
things.*
And here is one of the hardest truths of this parable: *the divine life, so
cultivated, cannot simply be shared with another at the last minute. The
wise virgins are not being difficult and self-absorbed when they tell their
friends that they can’t help them. A saint can’t simply infuse his life
into another; *it just doesn’t work that way.


*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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