[Grem] Gospel meditation (Bp. Barron)

[Emoke Greschik]

Friends, in today’s Gospel, *Jesus presents a child as the model for his
disciples who want to be the most important. Jesus lays out for his
disciples what is going to happen to him in Jerusalem, how he will be
rejected, tortured, and killed. Oblivious to this, the disciples are
discussing who among them is the most important. For Jesus, the path to
greatness lies on the road to Calvary, to self-forgetting love; for the
disciples—and for most people of most ages—it lies along the road to ego
inflation*.

*What is the antidote? A child is proposed as a kind of living icon to
these ambitious Apostles*. We notice first how Jesus physically identifies
with the child, sitting down at his level and placing his arms around him.
It is as though he is saying that he himself is like a child. How so? *Children
don’t know how to dissemble, how to be one way and act another. They are
what they are; they act in accordance with their deepest nature. *

*Why was this story of Jesus’ identification with children preserved by all
of the synoptic Gospels? Somehow it gets close to the heart of Jesus’ life
and message.*

*Mi Atyánk, aki a mennyekben vagy, szenteltessék meg a Te neved, jöjjön el
a Te országod, legyen meg a Te akaratod, amint a mennyben, úgy a földön is.
Mindennapi kenyerünket add meg nekünk ma és bocsásd meg a mi vétkeinket,
miképpen mi is megbocsátunk az ellenünk vétkezőknek, és ne vígy minket a
kísértésbe, de szabadíts meg a gonosztól. Mert Tiéd az ország, a hatalom és
a dicsőség most és mindörökké. Ámen. *
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