Tuesday, June 15, 2021

11th Week, Ordinary Time, Tuesday, 15-06-2021

2 Cor 8:1-9 / Matthew 5:43-48   

The word "enemy" is a word of restrictive usage.

We don't use that word often, at least not in every day language.

That may mean that we may not have that many enemies actually.

And when we think about it, how many real enemies do we have?

Hopefully, we can't think of anyone who is a real enemy to us.

But there are people that we don't like, people that we resent, people that we avoid.

And they can be than a handful. And it is certainly not the more the merrier.

In the gospel, we heard that loving our neighbour is expected of us.

But in reality, we treat some of these neighbours as if they are our enemies.

It is these "neighbourly enemies" that Jesus wants us to love.

Let us be at peace with them, and then we will be at peace with God and with ourselves.