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

[Emoke Greschik]

Friends our Gospel today tells *the story of a woman who—in the house of
Simon the Pharisee—approaches Jesus, weeping onto his feet and anointing
them with oil. She is filled with a love for Christ that overflows in acts
of self-offering and service; she breaks open her own heart in gratitude*. *But
Simon has shown scant hospitality to his guest, offering little if anything
of himself to Christ. *

*The abundance of the woman’s love discloses something to Jesus that had
obviously been invisible to Simon: she has been forgiven much. “So I tell
you, her many sins have been forgiven; hence, she has shown great love.” It
is most important to note that Jesus does not,* strictly speaking*, forgive
her sins; rather, he notices that she has been forgiven. And the evidence
for it is her self-forgetting love. She loves so passionately and so
courageously (risking the disapproval of Simon’s elegant guests) precisely
because she has been so graciously and abundantly forgiven. *

*It is decidedly not the case, Jesus implies, that love precedes divine
forgiveness as a sort of prerequisite; on the contrary, forgiveness
precedes love as the condition for its possibility. It is not the case that
one’s moral life must be upright in order to win divine favor*; *rather,
the sheer gift of God’s favor tends to produce an upright moral life, a
life of love.*


*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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