[Grem] Gospel meditation

[Emoke Greschik]

 Friends, in today’s Gospel, *Jesus charges us to be merciful and to stop
judging others*. *But we cannot perform such behaviors on our own strength*—we
need God’s assistance.

*In the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew, Jesus tells his followers: “Be
perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.*” *The perfection
that he urges—which includes a radical love of enemies, the practice of
nonviolence in the face of aggression, the refusal to judge one’s brothers
and sisters, and an embrace of poverty, meekness, and simplicity of
heart—is **not desirable or even possible within a natural framework. *

*The form of life outlined in the Sermon on the Mount would strike
Aristotle as excessive and irrational*—*and that is just the point. Its
viability and beauty will emerge only when one’s mind, will, and body have
been invaded and elevated by the love that God is.*

This is not to say that the natural moral excellences perceived by
Aristotle are invalidated by grace; *the invasion of the sacred does not
overwhelm or undermine the secular. But it does indeed transfigure it. This
transfiguration is the effect of love, working its way through the moral
self.*

*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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