Sunday

24 Feb 2019

Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle C Click here for all content for this cycle Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle C

SUNDAY SUMMARY

1 Samuel 26:2, 7-9, 12-13, 22-23  David chooses not to harm God’s anointed delivered into his grasp.

Psalm 103:1-2, 3-4, 8, 10, 12-13  Bless the Lord, my soul, for divine mercy redeems us from destruction.

1 Corinthians 15:45-49  We bear the images of the earthly and the heavenly being.

Luke 6:27-38  Love where love is denied; give without expecting return.

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The inner word

What’s in your heart?

It’s hard to wiggle out of this clear-cut directive of Jesus. “Do good to those who hate you.” And it’s hard to live up to it. The question is, “Where am I going to dwell, in the land of death, or in the land of life?”

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Exploring the word

Is it asking too much?

Most of us have no quarrel with Jesus. When he says love one another and welcome little children, and peace I leave with you, we find nothing difficult or objectionable in these sayings. Most of what Jesus has to say sounds like good moral advice or happy and reassuring thoughts.

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In other words

The Sunday gospel in everyday English

Jesus said to his disciples: “To you who are ready for the truth, I say this: Love your enemies. Let them bring out the best in you, not the worst.

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Homily stories

Forgiveness is always a work in progress

I once was fired from a job as a parish minister. The reason that the new pastor gave for my termination was that, after five years of ministry in the parish community, there was not enough office space for me.

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Homily stories

Love your enemy within

“I hate myself,” I heard my daughter say. “I’m so stupid!” She was struggling with a school project, and it was not coming together as she had hoped.

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Homily stories

Partnered with love

The brothers had been business partners for years. They were well-respected in their industry and they were making good money. It was time to sit back and reap the fruits of their labor. Instead one of the partners found out his wife was pregnant with her eighth child.

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Prayers

Penitential Act & Prayer of the Faithful

As we ponder the harder teaching of loving our enemies, we ask God to give us strength to respond to unkindness with love.

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Quotes

The roots of war are in the way we live our daily lives, the way we develop our industries, build up our society, and consume goods. We have to look deeply into the situation, and we will see the roots of war. We cannot just blame one side or the other. We have to transcend the tendency to take sides.

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