[Grem] Gospel meditation

[Emoke Greschik]

Friends, in today’s Gospel, *Jesus promises that he has come not to abolish
the Law but to fulfill it.* Matthew says that Jesus went up a mountain, sat
down, and commenced to teach, calling to mind Moses, who went up Mount
Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments from God.

Therefore, * Jesus is being presented here as the New Moses who will
promulgate from this Galilean mountain the definitive Law. *I realize
that *this
immediately poses a problem for contemporary readers*, *who* *are put off
by* *a religion that leads with laws, rules, and prohibitions*. An Irish
wag once summed up the Catholicism that he was taught with this phrase: “In
the beginning was the word, and the word was no!”

Since *the Ten Commandments have been honored mostly in the breach*, why
should anyone think it a good idea to introduce new and even more stringent
laws? *But *then we *attend to the first word out of the mouth of the
lawgiver: “Blessed,” “Happy.” The law that the New Moses offers is a
pattern of life that promises to make us happy.*


*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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