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Love of Enemies

“Love of Enemies” (3 panels)
Matthew 5:43-48 in a quatrain
Tuesday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time
©️2021 Gloria M. Chang

Gospel

Matthew 5:43-48

You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ … Read the rest

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Coals of Fire

“Coals of Fire”
A reflection on Luke 6:27-36, Matthew 26:52, and Proverbs 25:21-22
Thursday of the Twenty-Third Week in Ordinary Time
©️2021 Gloria M. Chang

But to you who hear I say, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.

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Lent, Day 10

“Lent, Day 10”
Matthew 5:44-45
Saturday of the First Week of Lent
©️2022 Gloria M. Chang

Bless those who persecute you;
bless and do not curse them.

Romans 12:14

Love your enemies
and pray for those who persecute you
that you may be children of your heavenly Father.

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Love like the Sun

Fra Angelico, Detail of the Crucifixion (ca.1437-46)

First Week of Lent, Saturday

“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 your 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.

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The Law Made Flesh

Fra Angelico: The Crucifixion (detail), ca.1437-46
Source: Wikimedia Commons

10th week in Ordinary Time, Wednesday

1 Kings 18:20-39, Psalm 25, Matthew 5:17-19

“Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill.”… Read the rest