[Grem] Gospel meditation

[Emoke Greschik]

 Friends, *our Gospel today lays out Jesus’ conditions for discipleship*. *For
all of us sinners, to varying degrees, our own lives have become god*. That
is to say, *we see the universe turning around our ego, our needs, our
projects, our plans, and our likes and dislikes.* *True conversion—the
metanoia that Jesus talks about—is so much more than moral reform, though
it includes that*.

* It has to do with a complete shift in consciousness, a whole new way of
looking at one’s life.Jesus offered a teaching that must have been
gut-wrenching to his first-century audience:* *“If anyone wishes to come
after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.” *His
listeners knew what the cross meant: a death in utter agony, nakedness, and
humiliation. They didn’t think of the cross automatically in religious
terms, as we do. They knew it in all of its awful power.

*Unless you crucify your ego, you cannot be my follower, Jesus says. This
move—this terrible move—has to be the foundation of the spiritual life. *

*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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