1 Samuel 26:2, 7-9, 12-13, 22-23 / 1 Corinthians 15:45-49 / Luke 6:27-38

With our Mother Church, we begin the seventh week of Ordinary Time.

Today the evangelist Luke tells us about Jesus' teaching to His disciples about loving their enemies, so that they would be merciful like God the Father.

Jesus warned His disciples that people could hate them, curse them, mistreat them, strike on their cheek, and take what was theirs. And despite this, the disciples should love these people, do good to them, bless them, pray for them, and even give them what they do not take.

Jesus said that sinners were content to follow customs, but that the disciples should go further and surpass sinners in generosity. He told the disciples that instead of passively waiting for good to be done, they should go ahead of others in doing good.

Jesus taught that by acting in this way, the disciples would be children of the Most High, who would also show God's kindness to the ungrateful and the wicked. Instead of judging and condemning, the disciples should be merciful like the Father, who will only be demanding in judgment with those who were demanding with others.

Let us remember that Jesus practiced exactly everything that He taught His disciples, especially in the mystery of His passion and crucifixion. Therefore, He was the Son of the Most High par excellence, showing God's kindness and being merciful like the Father.

Putting these teachings of Jesus into practice is not impossible, as long as we ask for the help of divine Grace. Let us break the spiral of hatred that is destroying humanity and the world.

Today the first book of Samuel tells us about David's respect for King Saul, his enemy. He had the opportunity to kill him and did not do so, because he respected Saul's divine anointing as king of Israel and because he knew that the Lord rewards each person according to their justice and faithfulness.

Let us imitate David's nobility in dealing with our enemies, because human beings should be treated according to their dignity as the image and likeness of God.

Today the apostle Paul speaks to us in his first letter to the Corinthians about the comparison between the earthly man and the heavenly man. On the one hand, we can think of Adam, created by God from clay, and Jesus, who came from God from Heaven, and how both affect the dynamics of human life. On the other hand, we can think of the material body, which returns to earth at death, and the spiritual body, which goes to Heaven at resurrection.

Let us believe in the resurrection of Jesus and in our own. Despite the evidence of the buried corpse, God, who created us from the dust of the earth, has the power to recreate us from the dust of the earth.

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