[Grem] Gospel meditation

[Emoke Greschik]

 Friends,* on this Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, let us meditate on
John the Baptist.* *Young John, the son of the priest Zechariah, grew up in
and around the temple, acquainted with its rituals. And he sensed that the
true Messiah was on the horizon. And so he went away from the old temple,
but he continued to act as a priest of a new Temple.*
*John was baptizing people in the Jordan. Why this ritual? Well, in the
Jerusalem temple, a pilgrim would cleanse himself in a mikvah, a ritual
bath, before he entered to make sacrifice. John was acting as a priest, and
the River Jordan was his mikvah. But what—or, better, who—was the new
Temple? Jesus, who came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John.
The heavens were torn open and the Spirit, like a dove, descended on him.*
*This is temple talk. When the high priest entered into the Holy of Holies,
he was entering into the heavenly .**realm* *The Holy of Holies was the
place where the “heavens were torn open” and a humble human being could
enter. So the point is that Jesus is himself the new Holy of Holies.*

*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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