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

[Emoke Greschik]

Friends, in our Gospel passage today, *Jesus declares that he is the vine
and we are the branches, adding that “anyone who does not remain in me will
be thrown out like a branch and wither.”*

It’s odd that we accept this sort of language very easily when it comes to
our bodily health, while we balk at it when it comes to spiritual or
supernatural health*. Doctors and health specialists can say, with a
clarity and matter-of-factness, that certain practices and behaviors are
absolutely essential if one wants to maintain physical well-being. Unless
you eat a balanced, nutritious diet, you will get sick and unfit. If you
smoke, drink to excess, and never exercise, your body will become
unhealthy, and if these practices (or negligences) become exaggerated, you
will die. It just isn’t that complicated.*

*Jesus *is not engaging in charming poetic imagery. He *is laying out the
spiritual facts. The spirit is a living thing, and it derives its life from
the vine. If, *therefore*, you are separated from the vine*,* you* *will
die spiritually; you will stop* *living a supernatural life*. And it’s just
not that complicated.


*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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