Jesus challenges us to love our enemies. Why? Because God loves us…even when we are far from loveable.
Mass Readings – Thursday of the 23rd Week of the Year (#440)
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Daily Mass: The Lord challenges us to love our enemies. Catholic Inspiration
Daily Mass: Love your enemies. Catholic Inspiration
Here it is. One of the toughest, most challenging teachings that Jesus offers: Love your enemies.
Mass Readings – Tuesday of the 11th Week of the Year (#366)
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Study, Pray, Serve: 7th Sunday of the Year
Let’s take a look at the themes in the Mass readings for the 7th Sunday of the Year.
1st Reading – 1st Samuel 26:2,7-9,12-13,22-23
- David and Abishai come upon Saul at night as he is sleeping in the midst of his soldiers.
- David spares Saul’s life and declares that he would not harm the Lord’s anointed.
Psalm – 103: 1-4,8,10,12-13
- “The Lord is kind and merciful.”
- The Lord has compassion for us, pardoning our iniquities and redeeming our lives.
2nd Reading – 1st Corinthians 15:45-49
- The first man, Adam, is earthly; the second man, Jesus, is heavenly.
- Just as we have borne the image of the earthly one, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly one.
Gospel – Luke 6:27-38
- The Lord teaches his disciples to love their enemies and do good to those who hate them.
- Jesus adds that his disciples be merciful, stop judging and condemning, and forgive one another.
Mass Readings – 7th Sunday of the Year (#81)
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Daily Mass: Love your enemies. Catholic Inspiration
Arguably the toughest teaching in the Bible, Jesus makes it clear that his disciples must love their enemies and pray for those who persecute them.
Mass Readings – Tuesday of the 11th Week of the Year (#366)
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Daily Mass: Love your enemies. Catholic Inspiration
The Lord’s command to “love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you” invites us to call upon God’s grace to put this teaching into practice.
Mass Readings – Saturday of the 1st Week of Lent (#229)
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Daily Mass: We love like Jesus when we love our enemies. Catholic Inspiration
It’s perhaps the toughest teaching of Jesus, yet when we love our enemies we conform our hearts to the love of Christ.
Mass Readings – Tuesday of the 11th Week of the Year
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7th Sunday of the Year: Love your enemies. Catholic Inspiration
It’s (in my pastoral opinion) the toughest teaching of Jesus, and it challenges us to call down help from Heaven to carry it out. May we honestly consider who is difficult to love in our lives today and strive with the Lord’s help to love…even our enemies.
Mass Readings – 7th Sunday of the Year
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Daily Mass: Love your enemies. Catholic Inspiration
Perhaps one of the toughest teachings in Christianity is found in the Gospel of Matthew today. Yet this command to love our enemies offers a practical path that unites us to the example of Jesus.
Mass Readings- Tuesday of the 11th Week of the Year
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Daily Mass: Love your enemies. Catholic Inspiration
This is one of the toughest teachings to carry out in Christianity. Love is often something we cherish…until we are called upon to love someone who has hurt us or those we care about. Yet without this crucial command we cannot heal and grow as children of God.
Mass Readings – Saturday of the 1st Week of Lent
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7th Sunday of the Year: Loving our enemies. Catholic Inspiration
The Lord’s teaching in Luke’s Gospel has powerful consequences for our spiritual lives. When we love – especially in difficult moments of conflict – we embrace the grace of Christ and live the gift of life at full power. This is not an easy teaching! The Lord, however, is always near to help us put his love into practice.
Mass Readings – 7th Sunday of the Year
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