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

[Emoke Greschik]

 Friends, in today’s Goospel, we find *the beautiful healing of a paralyzed
man who had been ill for thirty-eight years. Jesus sees the man lying on
his mat, next to a pool, and asks, “Do you want to be well?” The man says
yes, and Jesus replies, “Rise, take up your mat, and walk.” Immediately,
the man is healed.*

*Now at this point, the story really heats up*. We notice something that is
frequently on display in the Gospels: *the resistance to the creative work
of God, the attempt to find any excuse, however lame, to deny it,* to
pretend it’s not there,* to condemn it.*
*One would expect that everyone around the cured man would rejoice*, *but
just the contrary: the Jewish leaders are infuriated and confounded.* *They
see the healed man,* *and their first response is, “It is the Sabbath, and
it is not lawful for you to carry your mat.”*
*Why are they so reactive? *Why don’t they want this to be? *We sinners
don’t like the ways of God. We find them* *troubling and threatening.* *Why?
Because they* *undermine the games of oppression and exclusion that we rely
upon in order to boost our own egos.*
Let this encounter remind us that
*God’s ways are not our ways, and that there is one even greater than the
sabbath. *

*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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