[Grem] Gospel meditation (Bp.Barron)

[Emoke Greschik]

Friends, *the statement of Jesus *that we have *in the Gospel for today is
frightening*: * “I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it
were already blazing!” He’s throwing fire down, much like the God who
destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.*

Okay, so how do we make sense of all this? I thought *the angels on
Christmas morning said that he had come as the Prince of Peace? Jesus is
the Incarnation of the God who is nothing but love, but this enfleshment
takes place in the midst of a fallen, sinful world*. *Therefore, it will
appear as something threatening, strange, off-putting.*

*The world, on the biblical reading*,* is a dysfunctional family. When
Jesus comes, he necessarily comes as a breaker of the peace, as a threat to
the dysfunctional family.* Now we can begin to understand that strange
language about *setting three against two and two against three*.

*This is why Jesus wants to cast a consuming fire on the earth*. *He wants
to burn away all that is opposed to* *God’s desire for us.* *He has to
clear the ground before something new can be built*. *Is this utterly
painful? Yes.*


*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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