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<p align="justify">ALLELUJA<br>
<span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><b>Harmatozzatok egek, onnan felülről, † és ti, felhők hullassátok közénk
az Igazat! * Nyíljék meg <span style="color:rgb(39,78,19)">a föld,</span> és teremje az Üdvözítőt. </b></span>Iz 45,8 – 9.
tónus.
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<span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><b>† EVANGÉLIUM Szent Máté könyvéből
<br>
<i>A Messiás magasztalja előhírnökének nagyságát. </i><br>
Abban az időben Jézus így nyilatkozott Keresztelő Jánosról: Bizony
mondom nektek: <span style="color:rgb(39,78,19)">Az asszonyok szülöttei között </span>nem támadt nagyobb
Keresztelő Jánosnál. De aki legkisebb a mennyek országában, nagyobb,
mint ő. A mennyek országa Keresztelő János napjaitól mindmáig erőszakot
szenved, és az erőszakosok szerzik meg. A próféták és a törvény Jánosig
mindannyian ezt jövendölték. Ha tudni akarjátok, Illés ő, akinek el kell
jönnie. Akinek füle van, hallja meg!<br>
Ezek az evangélium igéi.
</b></span><br><b>Mt 11,11-15</b></p><p align="justify"><font size="2"><b>Friends,
<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"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);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"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight: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""><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;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"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal">in
today’s Gospel,<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b> Jesus says to the crowds, “From the days of John the
Baptist until now, the Kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the
violent are taking it by force.” </b></span>The title for Flannery O’Connor’s
irresistibly powerful second and final novel, <span style="color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-style:italic">The Violent Bear It Away</span>, is taken from the Douay-Rheims translation of this last phrase. <br><br>This
famously ambiguous passage has given rise to <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>a variety of
interpretations over the centuries</b></span>. Many have taken it to mean that the
kingdom of God is attacked by violent people
(such as those who killed John the Baptist) and that they threaten to
take it away. But others have interpreted it in the opposite direction,
as a word of praise to the spiritually violent who manage to get into
the kingdom. <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Flannery O’Connor</b></span> herself sides with this latter group.<br><br><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>The
“violent,” </b></span></b></b></b></span></b></b></b></b></b></b></b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><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"><span style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);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"><span style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight: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""><span style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;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"><span style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal">on this reading</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><b><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"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);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"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight: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""><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;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"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">,</span> are those spiritually heroic types who
resist <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">the promptings and tendencies of<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"> our </span>fallen</span><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"> nature</span> and seek to
discipline <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">it</span> in various ways in order to enter into the kingdom of God. <br></b></span></b></b></b></span></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></font></p><p align="justify"><font size="2"><b><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"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);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"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight: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""><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;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"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>
<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b>Ó bűn nélkül fogantatott Szűz Mária, könyörögj értünk, kik hozzád menekülünk!
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</b></span></b></b></b></span></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></font></p><p align="justify"><font size="2"><b><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"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);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"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight: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""><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;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"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b><br></b></span></b></b></b></span></b></b></b></b></b></b>
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