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

[Emoke Greschik]

Friends, the famous call of the Vatican II fathers to *“read the signs of
the times” is grounded in Jesus’ exhortation *i*n the Gospel for
today*. *Followers
of Jesus are meant to look at the world with clear eyes, to see what is
happening*, *to be attentive*.* But this attention is of a particular type.
It is not* *the attention of the scientist or the philosopher or the
politician—though it can include those*.* It is an attention to the things
of God.*

I have often argued that many of us today are still enthralled to a deist
view of God, whereby God is a distant and aloof first cause of the
universe, uninvolved with the world he has made. But *Thomas Aquinas taught
that God is in all things “by essence, presence, and power,” and that God
providentially cares for every aspect of his creation. Therefore, we should
expect to see signs of his presence and activity in nature, in history, and
in human affairs. *

*And once we see, we are meant to speak! In a way, followers of Jesus are *
not* looking at the signs of the times *for their own benefit, but rather *that
they might share their prophetic perspective with everyone else. So look
around*, look with attention, look *with the eyes of faith.*


*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.*
--------- következő rész ---------
Egy csatolt HTML állomány át lett konvertálva...
URL: <http://turul.kgk.uni-obuda.hu/pipermail/grem/attachments/20241025/fd12dee4/attachment.html>