[Grem] Gospel meditation

[Emoke Greschik]

 Friends, in today’s Gospel, *the chief priests and Pharisees unite in a
plot to kill Jesus because he raised Lazarus from the dead.*

*The Crucifixion of Jesus is a classic instance of *Catholic philosopher
René Girard’s *scapegoating *theory. He held that *a society, large or
small, that finds itself in conflict comes together through a common act of
blaming an individual or group purportedly responsible for the conflict.*

It is utterly consistent with the Girardian theory that * Caiaphas, the
leading religious figure of the time, said to his colleagues, “It is better
for you that one man should die instead of the people, so that the whole
nation may not perish.”*

In any other religious context, this sort of rationalization would be
validated. *But in the Resurrection of Jesus from the dead, this stunning
truth is revealed: God is not on the side of the scapegoaters, but rather
on the side of the scapegoated victim. *

*The true God does not sanction a community created through violence*; *rather,
he sanctions what Jesus called the kingdom of God, a society grounded in
forgiveness, love, and identification with the victim.*

*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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