[Grem] Gospel meditation (Bp.Barron)

[Emoke Greschik]

Friends, iin today’s Gospel,
*Jesus equips his disciples for defeating the devil. And the Lord continues
to empower them for spiritual warfare.*


*We are reminded that the battle is not simply with flesh and blood, and
not merely on the psychological or political stage, when Jesus says to the
chief of his Apostles, “Simon, Simon, behold Satan has demanded to sift all
of you like wheat, but I have prayed that your own faith may not fail.”*

*That the newborn Church will be in for a fight becomes clear in the
surprising words of Jesus: “But now one who has a money bag should take it,
and likewise a sack, and one who does not have a sword should sell his
cloak and buy one.”* *He is setting up a contrast between these
instructions and those that he gave them when he sent them on their
missionary way earlier in the Gospel*.

*In giving the first set of directives—carry no bag, no traveling staff, no
sandals, etc.*—
*he was encouraging in them an attitude of radical dependency upon God; in
giving the second—including the recommendation to carry a sword—he is
readying them for a struggle. *


*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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