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Mon (6-15)
2 Cor 6:1-10:
Brothers and Sisters: As your fellow workers, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain. For he says: In an acceptable time I heard you, and on the day of salvation I helped you. Behold, now is a very acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation. We cause no one to stumble in anything, in order that no fault may be found with our ministry; on the contrary, in everything we commend ourselves as ministers of God, through much endurance, in afflictions, hardships, constraints, beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, vigils, fasts; by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in unfeigned love, in truthful speech, in the power of God; with weapons of righteousness at the right and at the left; through glory and dishonor, insult and praise. We are treated as deceivers and yet are truthful; as unrecognized and yet acknowledged; as dying and behold we live; as chastised and yet not put to death; as sorrowful yet always rejoicing; as poor yet enriching many; as having nothing and yet possessing all things.
**St Mt 5:38-42: **Jesus said to his disciples: “You have heard that it was said, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. But I say to you, offer no resistance to one who is evil. When someone strikes you on your right cheek, turn the other one to him as well. If anyone wants to go to law with you over your tunic, hand him your cloak as well. Should anyone press you into service for one mile, go with him for two miles. Give to the one who asks of you, and do not turn your back on one who wants to borrow.”
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Tuesday (6-16)**
2 Cor 8:1-9:
We want you to know, Brothers and Sisters, of the grace of God that has been given to the churches of Macedonia, for in a severe test of affliction, the abundance of their joy and their profound poverty overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part. For according to their means, I can testify, and beyond their means, spontaneously, they begged us insistently for the favor of taking part in the service to the holy ones, and this, not as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord, and to us through the will of God, so that we urged Titus that, as he had already begun, he should also complete for you this gracious act also. Now as you excel in every respect, in faith, discourse, knowledge, all earnestness, and in the love we have for you, may you excel in this gracious act also. I say this not by way of command, but to test the genuineness of your love by your concern for others. For you know the gracious act of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for your sake he became poor although he was rich, so that by his poverty you might become rich.
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St Mt 5:43-48: **
Jesus said to his disciples: “You have heard that it was said, You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of you heavenly Father, for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what recompense will you have? Do not the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet your brothers only, what is unusual about that? do not the pagans do the same? So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.”
*If someone does evil to YOU, turn the other cheek. But what if someone is doing evil against others - and MANY others… What if the person is killing innocent people? Then we can’t turn the other cheek. The Bible also says (Jeremiah??) to save those being led to death and that we will be held accountable if we do not try to save them. I am speaking of abortion (mostly).
Love your enemies… hmmm… this is a hard thing to do.
Jesus didn’t say we had to be intimate friends with them (thank you, Jesus
). He says we should pray for them (& whatever else is required that doesn’t seriously harm us/others).*
I read this advice column in a non-Catholic magazine yrs ago… the woman answering the questions said to one of the women writing in that she should stay with her physically abusive husband because “the man is the head of the woman” and etc… I wrote a response & said that i did NOT agree with this, that if she was being beaten she should do what she could to protect herself, & even get a divorce if he refused to stop. The Church (the real one, that is) is against divorce & remarriage, not divorce/separation…
2 Cor 6:1-10:
Brothers and Sisters: As your fellow workers, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain. For he says: In an acceptable time I heard you, and on the day of salvation I helped you. Behold, now is a very acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation. We cause no one to stumble in anything, in order that no fault may be found with our ministry; on the contrary, in everything we commend ourselves as ministers of God, through much endurance, in afflictions, hardships, constraints, beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, vigils, fasts; by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in unfeigned love, in truthful speech, in the power of God; with weapons of righteousness at the right and at the left; through glory and dishonor, insult and praise. We are treated as deceivers and yet are truthful; as unrecognized and yet acknowledged; as dying and behold we live; as chastised and yet not put to death; as sorrowful yet always rejoicing; as poor yet enriching many; as having nothing and yet possessing all things.
**St Mt 5:38-42: **Jesus said to his disciples: “You have heard that it was said, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. But I say to you, offer no resistance to one who is evil. When someone strikes you on your right cheek, turn the other one to him as well. If anyone wants to go to law with you over your tunic, hand him your cloak as well. Should anyone press you into service for one mile, go with him for two miles. Give to the one who asks of you, and do not turn your back on one who wants to borrow.”
**
Tuesday (6-16)**
2 Cor 8:1-9:
We want you to know, Brothers and Sisters, of the grace of God that has been given to the churches of Macedonia, for in a severe test of affliction, the abundance of their joy and their profound poverty overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part. For according to their means, I can testify, and beyond their means, spontaneously, they begged us insistently for the favor of taking part in the service to the holy ones, and this, not as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord, and to us through the will of God, so that we urged Titus that, as he had already begun, he should also complete for you this gracious act also. Now as you excel in every respect, in faith, discourse, knowledge, all earnestness, and in the love we have for you, may you excel in this gracious act also. I say this not by way of command, but to test the genuineness of your love by your concern for others. For you know the gracious act of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for your sake he became poor although he was rich, so that by his poverty you might become rich.
**
St Mt 5:43-48: **
Jesus said to his disciples: “You have heard that it was said, You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of you heavenly Father, for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what recompense will you have? Do not the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet your brothers only, what is unusual about that? do not the pagans do the same? So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.”
*If someone does evil to YOU, turn the other cheek. But what if someone is doing evil against others - and MANY others… What if the person is killing innocent people? Then we can’t turn the other cheek. The Bible also says (Jeremiah??) to save those being led to death and that we will be held accountable if we do not try to save them. I am speaking of abortion (mostly).
Love your enemies… hmmm… this is a hard thing to do.
Jesus didn’t say we had to be intimate friends with them (thank you, Jesus
). He says we should pray for them (& whatever else is required that doesn’t seriously harm us/others).*I read this advice column in a non-Catholic magazine yrs ago… the woman answering the questions said to one of the women writing in that she should stay with her physically abusive husband because “the man is the head of the woman” and etc… I wrote a response & said that i did NOT agree with this, that if she was being beaten she should do what she could to protect herself, & even get a divorce if he refused to stop. The Church (the real one, that is
) is against divorce & remarriage, not divorce/separation…