[Grem] Gospel meditation

[Emoke Greschik]

Friends, in today’s Gospel,
*Jesus announces to his disciples: “I no longer call you slaves, because a
slave does not know what his master is doing. I have called you friends,
because I have told you everything I have heard from my Father.”*

*Many mysticisms and philosophies of the ancient world—Platonism and
Gnosticism *come readily to mind—*spoke of* *God or the sacred, but they
spoke of it as a force or a value or an ontological source. It was
impersonal and at an infinite remove from* *the world of ordinary
experience. These ancient schools find an echo in many modern and
contemporary theologies*. Think of deism, which was so influential on the
founders of the United States, or even *the New Age philosophy* of our
time. These speak of a “divine” principle or power, but one would never
dream of addressing such a force as “thou” or of engaging with it in
intimate conversation.


*Then there is the Bible. The Scriptures obviously present God as the
overwhelming, transcendent, uncontrollable, inscrutable Creator of the
heavens and the earth, but they insist that this sublime and frightening
power is a person who deigns to speak to us, to guide us, and to invite us
into his life. *

*In making that utterance—that he no longer called his disciples slaves,
but friends*—*Jesus turned all of religious philosophy and mysticism* *on
its head.*


*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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