[Grem] *****SPAM(5.2)***** Gospel meditation

[Emoke Greschik]

 Friends, in our Gospel today, *Jesus says matter-of-factly before healing
the paralytic, “Child, your sins are forgiven.” Shocked, the Pharisees
respond, “He is blaspheming. Who but God alone can forgive sins?”*
*They were quite right, of course, which is the whole point*. If you had
hurt me, I could with some legitimacy offer you my personal forgiveness of
your offense. But if someone else had harmed you, I could scarcely offer *that
person* my forgiveness for his sin. The only way that such a statement
could be anything but blasphemous would be if I were the one who is
offended in every sin. And this is what the Pharisees correctly intuited.
G.K. Chesterton said that even those who reject the doctrine of the
Incarnation (like the Pharisees) are different for having heard it. *The
claim that God became one of us changes the imagination, compelling a
reassessment of both God and the world. This odd assertion is made,
implicitly or explicitly, on practically every page of the New Testament.*
*Therefore, when Jesus forgives the paralytic’s sin, the Pharisees respond
that only God can forgive sins, thereby, despite themselves, professing
faith in the Good News.*

*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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