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<span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><b>† EVANGÉLIUM Szent Lukács könyvéből
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<i><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19)">A farizeusok</span><span style="color:rgb(102,0,0)"> szemmel tartják </span>Jézust, és még jótetteiben is csak <span style="color:rgb(102,0,0)">azt keresik, hogy mit fordíthatnak ellene.</span> </i><br>
Jézus az egyik szombaton elment a kafarnaumi zsinagógába, és tanítani kezdett.<br>
Volt ott egy jobb kezére béna ember. <span style="color:rgb(102,0,0)">Az írástudók és a farizeusok
figyelték </span>Jézust, vajon meggyógyítja-e szombaton; hogy aztán okot
találjanak <span style="color:rgb(102,0,0)">a vádaskodásra.</span><br>
Ő azonban ismerte <span style="color:rgb(102,0,0)">gondolataikat</span>. Megszólította tehát a béna kezű embert:
„Kelj fel, és állj ide a középre!” Az felkelt és odaállt. Jézus akkor
hozzájuk fordult: „Kérdem tőletek: Szabad-e szombaton jót vagy <span style="color:rgb(102,0,0)">rosszat
</span>tenni, életet menteni <span style="color:rgb(102,0,0)">vagy pusztulni hagyni</span>?”<br>
Végignézett rajtuk, aztán így szólt az emberhez: „Nyújtsd ki a kezedet!” Az megtette, és meggyógyult a keze.<br>
Erre <span style="color:rgb(102,0,0)">esztelen harag szállta meg</span> <span style="color:rgb(102,0,0)">őket, és arról kezdtek tanakodni, hogy mit tegyenek </span>Jézus<span style="color:rgb(102,0,0)">sal</span>.<br>
Ezek az evangélium igéi.
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our Gospel today, <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>Jesus heals a man with a withered hand.</b></span> As I’ve said
many times before, we tend to domesticate Christ, reducing him to a guru
or a teacher, one spiritual guide among many. But this is to do
violence to the Gospel, which presents him <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>not simply as teacher but as
savior.</b></span></span><br><br><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">I
realize that the culture militates against Christianity at this point,
for it steadily teaches the ideology of self-esteem and self-assertion.
"I’m okay and you’re okay." "Who are you to tell me how to behave?"</span><br><br><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">But
this sort of thing—whatever value it might have politically or
psychologically—is simply inimical to a biblical Christianity. The
biblical view is that we have, through the abuse of our freedom, gotten
ourselves into an impossible bind<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>. Sin has wrecked<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"> us</span> in such a
fundamental way that <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">we</span> have become dysfunctional. </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Until <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">we </span>truly feel
<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">what it means to be lost and helpless</span>,<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"> <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)">we </span>will not a</span>ppreciate who Jesus
is and what he means. </b></span></span><br><br></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></font><div><font size="2"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">Jesus is someone who has rescued<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"> us, </span>saved<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"> us, </span>done something that <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">we</span> <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">could never, even in principle,</span> do <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">for</span></span></b></span></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b> <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">ourselves</span></b></span>.</font></div><div><font size="2">
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b>Kérlek, szükség esetén, a kellő pillanatban küldj valakit, aki jó
szívvel szemembe meri mondani az Igazságot, ha amúgy berzenkednék
ellene!<br>
Tudom Uram, hogy számtalan nehézséget nem a lázas tevékenység, hanem az idő old meg.<br>
Te jól tudod, mily nagyon rászorulok az őszinte barátságra.<br>
Add, hogy kiérdemeljem az életnek ezt a legszebb, legértékesebb, leggyöngédebb, hatalmas ajándékát!<br>
Kérlek, tartsd távol tőlem a szorongást okozó gondolatot, miszerint életem hiábavaló lenne!<br>
Ne azt add; Uram, amit kívánnék, hanem azt, amire szerinted valóban szükségem van!<br>
Kérve kérlek, taníts meg, Uram, a lépésről lépésre Feléd haladás művészetére! (Antoine de Saint Exupéry imája 3.rész)</b></span>
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