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

[Emoke Greschik]

 Friends, today, *in the Sermon on the Mount, the Lord exhorts us to
nonresistance to evil. Martin Luther King Jr. was deeply influenced by
Mahatma Gandhi’s techniques, and Gandhi learned them, largely, from* *the
Sermon on the Mount.*

*Both Gandhi and King appreciated that *the text dealing with the
*nonresistance
to evil has nothing to do with passivity in the face of* *injustice*, *but
rather with a new and distinctive type of resistance.*

*Consider the Lord’s injunction,* *“When someone strikes you on your right
cheek, turn the other one to him as well.” *I realize that *this sounds
like mere passivity, fleeing before evi*l,* but the truth is anything but*.
I*n Jesus’ time,* *you would not have used your left hand for any type of
social interaction, since it was considered unclean. Therefore, to strike
someone on the right cheek is to strike him with the back of your hand, the
way a master might treat a slave.*

*By turning the other cheek, one neither *f*ights back directly* *nor* *flees,
but rather stands his ground and declares, “You will not treat me that way
again.” It thereby effectively mirrors back to the aggressor his
aggression. It is the declaration that the aggressed person refuses to
cooperate with the world of the aggressor.*

*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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