[Grem] Gospel meditation

[Emoke Greschik]

 Friends, in today’s Gospel,* Jesus prescribes the essential disciplines of
prayer, fasting, and almsgiving.* *Let’s focus on fasting and almsgiving.*
*The appetites for food and drink are so pressing, so elemental, that*, *
unless they* *are quelled and disciplined*,* they will simply take over the
soul*. They are like children who clamor constantly for attention and who,
if indulged, will in short order run the house.
*Therefore, if the passion for God is to be awakened*, *the more
immediately pressing desires* *must be muted, and this is the purpose of
fasting. We go hungry and thirsty so that the deepest hunger and thirst
might be felt.* *In a way, fasting is like* *the “calming of* *the monkey
mind” effected by the Rosary: both are means of settling* *the superficial
mind that darts from preoccupation to preoccupation.*
*But* *food and drink* *are not* *the only objects of concupiscent
desire*. *Material
things and wealth are also ready substitutes for* *the passion for God.* *Thus,
a kind of fasting from what money can buy* *is an important practice*.
*How often Jesus recommends that his disciples give to the poor, and how
often throughout the Christian tradition has almsgiving been emphasized. *

*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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