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

[Emoke Greschik]

Friends, today we celebrate *the feast of St. Matthew*, and our Gospel
tells of *his conversion. Matthew’s laconic account details what the
transition from spiritual death to spiritual life is like. First*, we
notice *the look of Jesus. *If there is one theme clearly stated in the New
Testament it is that of the primacy of grace.

Why? We don’t know. We just know that we will not lift ourselves to
spiritual wholeness. *A gaze has to come upon us from the outside*—not so
much finding God as* allowing ourselves to be found.*

*Jesus says to him, “Follow me.” There is nothing simpler or more basic in
the Christian life than this. This is what we disciples do: we follow, we
walk after him, we apprentice to him. “He got up and followed him.” The
symbolism here is marvelous. Getting up, rising up—anastasis, the same word
used to designate the Resurrection of Jesus from the dead. Conversion
(turning around) is also elevation, rising up.*

*To come to Christ is to come to a higher, richer, broader form of life.
Now life is not simply the pleasures and goods of the body; now life is
lived in and through God.*


*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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