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ἐλθόντων πρὸς τὸν ὄχλον προσῆλθεν αὐτῷ ἄνθρωπος
Καὶ ⸀ἐλθόντων πρὸς τὸν ὄχλον προσῆλθεν αὐτῷ ἄνθρωπος γονυπετῶν αὐτὸν
πρόσωπον (prosōpon).
The preposition πρὸς is the root of the Greek word for person, πρόσωπον (prosōpon).
Jesus comes to the crowd and the man comes to him, προσῆλθεν (the verb προσέρχομαι).
An encounter is set up, and at the heart of every encounter is dialogue.
προσῆλθεν, προσέρχομαι
The preposition πρὸς is the root of the Greek word for person, πρόσωπον (prosōpon).
Jesus comes to the crowd and the man comes to him, προσῆλθεν (the verb προσέρχομαι).
An encounter is set up, and at the heart of every encounter is dialogue.
An encounter between God and man.
The first words out of the man’s mouth are Kyrie, eleison.
The first words any of us will speak when face to face with the Lord will be Kyrie, eleison!
The preposition πρὸς is the root of the Greek word for person, πρόσωπον (prosōpon).
Jesus comes to the crowd and the man comes to him, προσῆλθεν (the verb προσέρχομαι).
An encounter is set up, and at the heart of every encounter is dialogue.
But please note that preposition πρὸς.
It denotes movement.
Jesus comes to the crowd waiting for him to come down from the mountain of transfiguration.
And the man comes to him.
There is movement.
St. Gregory of Nazianzus famously expressed one of the great truths of Christianity: the human being must be sanctified by the humanity of God.
Jesus came into the world not to show off divine power and perform miracles.
The miracles are a by-product of what is really happening here - an encounter between God and a human being.
While people ask for a cure, a miracle, Jesus talks of faith.
The miracles he did perform were merely signs - and John’s Gospel does call the miracles “signs” - signs of the fulness of life to which we are all invited.
He invites us as one of us, his humanity touching our humanity.
He came as one of us, taking upon himself all our weaknesses and sufferings, taking them to his heart as a precious treasure.
The same Gregory also said, what is not assumed is not healed.
because the human being must be sanctified by the humanity of God
Faith is not a thing, not a summary of truths or ideas.
The faith of ideas and truths is second-hand faith.
The faith Jesus speaks of here and elsewhere in the gospels is faith that can move mountains.
And yet it is faith that is small, like a grain of mustard seed.
It is a faith of movement and personal encounter, and a faith that begins with Kyrie eleison.
The faith Jesus wants to plant in our souls is faith that grows little by little, from a mustard seed to the transformation/transfiguration of our humanity by the humanity of God!
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