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<p align="justify">ALLELUJA<br>
<span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><b>Királya vagy a nemzeteknek és szegletköve az Egyháznak. * Jöjj, mentsd
meg az embert, akit a föld sarából alkottál</b></span>! – 2. tónus.
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<span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><b>† EVANGÉLIUM Szent Lukács könyvéből
<br>
<i>Keresztelő Szent János születése. </i><br>
Amikor elérkezett Erzsébet szülésének ideje, fiúgyermeket szült.
Szomszédjai és rokonai meghallották, hogy milyen irgalmas volt hozzá az
Úr, és együtt örült vele mindenki. A nyolcadik napon jöttek, hogy
körülmetéljék a gyermeket. <span style="color:rgb(39,78,19)">Atyja nevéről Zakariásnak akarták hívni. </span>De
anyja ellenezte: „Nem, János legyen a neve.” <span style="color:rgb(7,55,99)">Azok megjegyezték: „Hiszen
senki sincs a rokonságodban, akit így hívnának!”</span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(39,78,19)">Érdeklődtek erre atyjától, hogyan akarja <span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)">őt </span>nevezni</span>. Atyja írótáblát
kért, és ezeket a szavakat írta rá: János a neve.” Erre mindnyájan
meglepődtek. Neki pedig megnyílt az ajka, és megoldódott a nyelve:
szólni kezdett, és magasztalta Istent.<br>
<span style="color:rgb(39,78,19)">Akkor félelem szállta meg az összes szomszédokat, és Júdában meg az
egész hegyvidéken erről az eseményről beszéltek. Aki csak hallott róla,
elgondolkodva mondta: </span>„Mi lesz ebből a gyermekből? Hiszen nyilván az Úr
van vele.”<br>
Ezek az evangélium igéi.
</b></span><br><b>Lk 1,57-66</b> </p>
<font size="2"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">Friends, today’s Gospel tells the story of<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b> the birth and naming of John the Baptist.</b></span><br><br>This
story brings <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>John’s parents, Zechariah and Elizabeth</b></span>, into focus. <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>Both
are strongly priestly personages. Elizabeth is a descendant of the
family of Aaron, the first priest of Israel, and Zechariah was a
practicing temple priest.</b></span><br><br>What’s important for our purposes is
that <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>John was of very priestly stock. He grew up in and around the
temple, acquainted with its rituals.</b></span> So why, when we first hear of
him in his adult life, is he out in the desert and not in the temple?<br><br><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">The
temple had been renovated, largely rebuilt, by</span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"> </span></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>Herod the Great. But
Herod was a wicked man, </b></span></span></b></b></b></b></b></b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">as we know from the Gospels themselves and from
lots of other ancient sources. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>He had effectively declared himself the
Messiah of Israel.</b></span><br><br><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>John saw <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">how corrupt all of this was</span>, and he
sensed that the true Messiah was on the horizon. So he went away from
the old temple, and he continued to act as a priest, but as priest of a
new Temple: Jesus himself, the new Holy of Holies.</b></span><br><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><i><b>Reflect: What does it mean to say that Jesus himself is the new Temple?</b></i></span></span></b></b></b></b></b></b>
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