When Love becomes difficult! Homily for Tuesday of the 11th week in ordinary time JUNE 2023
Homily for Tuesday of the 11th week in ordinary time 2Cor.8:1-9; Ps.146; Matthew 5:43-48 When Love becomes difficult! Jesus presents us with another difficult teaching in the gospel reading of today. He is asking us to love our enemies if we want to be different from the tax collectors and the Gentiles who ordinarily will do good to only those whom they love. A sign that we are Christians is when we are able to repay evil with good. But again, there is a tiny line between paying evil with good and encouraging evil by some unscrupulous kindness. So, Jesus went on to give us an example of how to love our enemies. First, we consider an enemy to be someone who hates us and works against us maliciously. What Jesus wants us to do differently is not to hate and act maliciously towards our enemies in return. When we sin against God, God does not in turn sin against us; that will reduce God to our imperfect state. It is this reduction that Jesus wants us to guide against. So many persons have l...