June 17 - Tuesday of the 11th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(2Cor.8:1-9; Ps.146:2,5-9; Mt.5:43-48) "Love your enemies, pray for your persecutors." Our psalm today begins with praise of God and the proclamation of the happiness of those "whose hope is in the Lord," for it is He who "gives food to the hungry" and "raises up those that were bowed down." Freeing captives, giving sight to the blind, protecting strangers… such is our God and Father. And in our gospel Jesus tells us, "You are sons of your heavenly Father," and "you must be made perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect." We must be His image, doing the things He does. Paul presents Jesus…
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