<div dir="ltr"><div>színezés helyesbítve:</div><div>
<div dir="ltr"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">Friends, in today’s Gospel<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>, Jesus offers to free us from the burden of our pride.</b></span><br></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;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>What
is it that makes <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">our lives</span> heavy and weighed down? Precisely the burden
of <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">our own egos</span>, the weight of
<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">one’s own self.</span></b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>When I am puffing myself up with my own self-importance,
I’m laboring under all that weight.</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>Jesus is saying, "Become a child.
Take that weight off your shoulders and put on the weight of my yoke,
the yoke of my obedience to the Father." </b></span><br></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Anthony
de Mello proposed the following parable to describe<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"> our prideful souls</span></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">.</span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>A
group of people <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">sit on a bus that is passing through</span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">the most glorious
countryside,</span> but they have the shades pulled down on all the windows and
are bickering about who gets front seat on the bus. This is the burden
of pride: preferring the narrow and stuffy confines</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>of the bus<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"> to </span></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>the
beauty that is effortlessly available all around.</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>This, of course, is
why Jesus can say, "My yoke is easy and my burden is light."</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>What the
Lord proposes is not <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">a
freedom from suffering </span>but, what is much more important, a freedom from
<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">the self.</span></b></span></span></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><font size="4"><br></font></span><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><font size="4"><b>Dicsőség az Atyának, a Fiúnak és a Szentléleknek. Most és mindörökké. Ámen.</b></font></span></div>
</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 7:42 PM Emoke Greschik <<a href="mailto:greschem@gmail.com">greschem@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">
<b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> Friends, in today’s Gospel<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>, Jesus offers to free us from the burden of our pride.</b></span><br></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;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>What
is it that makes <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">our lives</span> heavy and weighed down? Precisely the burden
of <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">our own egos</span>, the weight of
<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">one’s own self.</span></b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>When I am puffing myself up with my own self-importance,
I’m laboring under all that weight.</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>Jesus is saying, "Become a child.
Take that weight off your shoulders and put on the weight of my yoke,
the yoke of my obedience to the Father." </b></span><br></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Anthony
de Mello proposed the following parable to describe<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"> our prideful souls</span></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">.</span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>A
group of people sit on a bus that is passing through the most glorious
countryside, but they have the shades pulled down on all the windows and
are bickering about who gets front seat on the bus. This is the burden
of pride: preferring the narrow and stuffy confines</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>of the bus<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"> to </span></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>the
beauty that is effortlessly available all around.</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>This, of course, is
why Jesus can say, "My yoke is easy and my burden is light."</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>What the
Lord proposes is not <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">a
freedom from suffering </span>but, what is much more important, a freedom from
<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">the self.</span></b></span></span></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><font size="4"><br></font></span><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><font size="4"><b>Dicsőség az Atyának, a Fiúnak és a Szentléleknek. Most és mindörökké. Ámen.</b></font></span><br></div></div>
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