[Grem] Gospel meditation

[Emoke Greschik]

 Friends, in today’s Gospel, *people ask Jesus why his disciples do not
fast*.
* He says that as wedding guests, they will not fast while he, the
Bridegroom, is with them. But “the days will come,” he says, “when the
bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.”*
*Why do we fast? Because we have a hunger for God, which is the deepest
hunger.* We’re meant to get access to that hunger. We’re meant to feel it
so that it can direct us toward God. Every spiritual master recognizes the
danger that
*if we allow the superficial hunger of our lives to dominate, we never
reach the deepest hunger.*
*Thomas Merton once observed that our desires for food and drink are
something like little children in their persistence and tendency to
dominate.* *Unless and until they are disciplined*,* they will skew the
functions of the soul according to their purposes.*

*And fasting is a way of disciplining the hunger for food and drink*. *It
is a way of quieting those desires by not responding to them immediately,
so that the deepest desires emerge. Unless you fast,*
*you might never realize how hungry you are for God. *

*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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