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

[Emoke Greschik]

 Friends, *today’s Gospel compares the self-centered prayer of the Pharisee
with the God-centered prayer of the tax collector.*

*The Pharisee spoke his prayer to himself.* *This is*,* Jesus suggests,* *a
fraudulent, wholly inadequate prayer, precisely because it simply confirms
the man in his self-regard. And the god to which he prays is, necessarily,
a false god, an idol, since it allows itself to be positioned by the
ego-driven needs of the Pharisee.*

*But then Jesus invites us to meditate upon the tax collector’s prayer*. *He
speaks with a simple eloquence: “He beat his breast and prayed, ‘O God, be
merciful to me a sinner.’”* Though it is articulate speech, it is not
language that confirms the independence and power of the speaker; just the
contrary. *It is more of a cry or a groan, an acknowledgment that he needs
to receive *something, *this mysterious mercy for which he begs.*

*In the first prayer, “god” is the principal member of the audience arrayed
before the ego of the Pharisee. But in this second prayer, God is the
principal actor, and the tax collector is the audience awaiting a
performance the contours of which he cannot fully foresee.*

*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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