[Grem] *****SPAM(5.2)***** Gospel meditation (Bp. Barron)

[Emoke Greschik]

Friends, in our Gospel today, *the Lord offers one of the greatest, most
“slap you in the face” challenges he ever offered*: *“If anyone comes to me
without hating his father and mother . . . and even his own life, he cannot
be my disciple.” *

There is* the great spiritual principle that undergirds the entire Gospel:
detachment.* *The heart of the spiritual life is to love God and then to
love everything else for the sake of God*.* But we sinners*,* as St.
Augustine said*, *fall into the trap of loving* t*he creature** and
forgetting* * the Creator. That’s when we get off the rails.*

*We treat something less* *than God* *as God*—*and trouble ensues. And this
is* *why Jesus tells his* *fair-weather fans that they have a very stark
choice to make. Jesus must be loved first and last—and everything else in
their lives* *has to find its meaning in relation to him.*

*In typical Semitic fashion*, *he makes this point through a stark
exaggeration*: *“Hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers
and sisters.” *Well yes, hate them in the measure that they have become
gods to you. For precisely in that measure are they dangerous.


*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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