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

[Emoke Greschik]

Friends, * Jesus concludes today’s Gospel by prescribing giving alms as a
key to holiness. *I’ve quoted to you before some of the breathtaking
remarks of saints and popes about almsgiving*: Leo XIII says, “Once the
demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest of your money
belongs to the poor.” John Chrysostom says, “The man who has two shirts in
his closet, one belongs to him; the other belongs to the man who has no
shirt.”*

*The deepest root of all of this is in the prophets, who continually rail
against those who are indifferent to the poor. The prophets teach* us *that
compassion is key to biblical ethics, feeling the pain of others in our own
hearts.* We’re not dealing with an abstract Aristotelian moral philosophy,
but rather with something more visceral.

*This is precisely why the two great commandments are so tightly linked:
“Love the Lord, your God, with all your heart . . . and your neighbor as
yourself.” *In loving God you feel the feelings of God, and *God is
compassionate to the poor and oppressed. That’s all the argument that a
biblical person needs.*


*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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