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 Gospel is from John’s account of <b><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)">the Last Supper, where Jesus 
acknowledges Judas as his betrayer and tells him to get on with it.</span></b><br></span><br><div style="outline:none;padding:0px;color:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit"><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"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">God’s
 desires </span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">have been, from the beginning, opposed. Consistently, <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">human 
beings </span>have preferred the isolation of sin to</span></b> <b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">the festivity of the 
sacred meal.</span></b> Theologians have <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">called </span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>this anomalous tendency the </b></span></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:italic">mysterium iniquitatis </span></b></span><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>(the mystery of evil), </b></span><b><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">for there is no rational ground for</span></b> <b><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">it,</span></b> <b><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">no reason for</span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"> it to exist.</span></b></span></div>
<br><div style="outline:none;padding:0px;color:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit"><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"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">But
 there it stubbornly is, always shadowing</span></b> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>the good</b>,</span><b><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"> parasitic upon</span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"> that 
which</span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"> it tries to destroy. </span></b>Therefore, we should not be too surprised 
that,<b> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">as the sacred meal comes to its richest possible expression,</span></b> <b><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">evil 
accompanies<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"> </span></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">it.  </span></b></span></div>
<br><div style="outline:none;padding:0px;color:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit"><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">Judas the betrayer expresses the </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:italic">mysterium iniquitatis </span></b></span><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>with
 particular symbolic power, for he </b></span><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">had spent years in intimacy with 
Jesus, taking in the Lord’s moves and thoughts at close quarters, 
sharing the table of fellowship with him—</span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">and yet he saw fit to turn</span></b> 
<b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">Jesus
</span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">over to his enemies and to interrupt</span></b> <b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">the coinherence of the Last Supper.</span></b></span></div>
<br><div style="outline:none;padding:0px;color:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit"><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"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">Those
 of us who </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">regularly gather around </span>the table of intimacy with Christ</span></b> <b><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">and
 yet engage consistently in the works of darkness<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"> </span></span><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">are meant to see</span></b> <b><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">
ourselves in the betrayer. </span><br></b></span></div><div style="outline:none;padding:0px;color:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit"><span style="font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal;color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b>Dicsőség az Atyának, a Fiúnak és a Szentléleknek most és mindörökké. Ámen.</b></span></div><div style="outline:none;padding:0px;color:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit"><span style="font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal;color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b><br></b></span></div></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></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></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b>

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