Jeremiah 17:5-8 / 1 Corinthians 15:12, 16-20 / Luke 6:17, 20-26

We begin the sixth week of Ordinary Time with Mother Church.

Sunday is the Lord's Day, Family Day, and Rest Day.

Today the evangelist Luke tells us about the beatitudes proclaimed by Jesus and also about the woes.

Due to His ministry, Jesus came to know many poor people, who were hungry, who cried, and who, for believing in Him, were hated, expelled from the synagogues, insulted, and cursed. Like many prophets, these people were despised by both society and religion. But they were very important to Jesus, who tried to help them and console them in the faith.

One day, Jesus came down and, on a stretch of level ground, He told His disciples and a large crowd that people who suffered social and religious contempt were, in reality, blessed, happy, precisely because they would receive preferential treatment from Jesus and a great reward in Heaven.

Jesus is the blessed one par excellence! He chose to live with the poor and, with them, suffered hardships. In the mystery of His passion, Jesus was also hated, insulted and cursed. And, in all things, Jesus was helped and consoled in faith, being exalted in Heaven.

In addition to the beatitudes, according to the evangelist Luke, Jesus also said the woes, questioning the self-sufficient rich who filled themselves with food and laughed without preparing for difficult days. 

Listening to the teaching of Jesus, which subverts human logic, on the one hand, we must welcome, help and console in the faith our brothers and sisters in their material and spiritual needs; on the other hand, we must be patient in times of hardship and difficulties, trusting in the reward of eternal life.

Today the prophet Jeremiah tells us that trust in the Lord is better than trusting in man.

Let us always trust in the Lord and, like a tree, we will never stop bearing fruit, our leaves will remain green and we will not suffer lack in times of drought.

Today the apostle Paul speaks to us in his first letter to the Corinthians about faith in the resurrection of Jesus and our own. The apostle assures us that Christ has been raised from the dead,

the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

Christian hope is not only for the present world, but also for the future time, in eternity with God through the resurrection. If it were not so, we would deserve the pity of all.

Christ is risen and, with Him, we have passed from the death of sin to life in Grace. We are no longer in our sins!

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