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Love your enemies.

Publication: America
Publication Date: 12-FEB-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Love your enemies.(The Word)(gospels)

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Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time (C), Feb. 18, 2007

Readings: 1 Sam 26:2, 7-9, 12-13, 22-23; Ps 103:1-4, 8, 10, 12-13; 1 Cor 15:45-49; Luke 6:27-38

"Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful" (Luke 6:36)

LOVE OF ONE'S ENEMIES is among Jesus' most distinctive, characteristic and difficult teachings. Most of us have a hard enough time loving our family and friends, or even loving ourselves. But to do good to those who hate us, bless those who curse us and pray for those who mistreat us seems to go beyond our ordinary human powers. And that is the point of today's selection from Luke's Sermon on the Plain. Jesus offers two reasons why we should love our enemies: It may be wise to do so on the human level, and in doing so we imitate the example of God.

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