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

[Emoke Greschik]

Friends, in today’s Gospel, *a man who appears willing to become Jesus’
disciple makes a reasonable request: “Lord, let me go first and bury my
father.” But the man receives a shocking rebuke from Jesus: “Follow me, and
let the dead bury their dead.”*

*What is more important than the mission? Nothing*. Not even one of the
most sacred and revered practices of our society: piety toward our dead
relatives. *Could you imagine a scenario in which you wouldn’t give
permission to someone to attend his father’s or mother’s funeral? *

I don’t want to soften *Jesus’ words *or explain them away or contextualize
them. They *are what they are, and they’re harsh, *for the man in his own
time and for us. *But they compel us to make a decision: Are we finally
about the things of God or about something else? *Is religion and the
mission attached to it substantial for us, or merely decorative?

*Now mind you, we don’t usually have to make such a terrible choice*.
*Normally,
our love for God and our love for family don’t come into conflict.*
*But this is a sort of spiritual exercise, an experiment. What if it came
down to God or my family? Whom would I choose? *


*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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