[Grem] Gospel meditation

[Emoke Greschik]

Friends, in today’s Gospel*, Jesus enunciates a principle that is an
implicit resolution of the vexing problem of religion and politics*:
*“Repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God.” *

*God is the deepest source and inspiration for everything in life, from
sports to law to the arts to science and medicine. Everything* *comes from
God and returns to God.* So what about our famous question of religion and
politics?

*Politics *is not in a realm separate from the religious; rather,
*its* *deepest
ground is spiritual.* *Thomas Aquinas held that law comes from the eternal
law, which is identical to the mind of God*. *This eternal law is reflected
in the human mind and heart,* *those basic principles that are called the
natural law.*
*Positive law—from traffic regulations to antitrust laws—are then concrete
applications of the natural law.*


*Hence all law—the very stuff of politics—has to do with God, since
positive law nests in the natural law, which nests in the eternal law. This
is why we should expect our politicians and judges to be acting in accord
with moral and spiritual goods. *


*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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