February 23 - Sunday of the 7th Week in Ordinary Time, Year C
(1Sm.26:2,7-9,12-13,22-23; Ps.103:1-4,8,10,12-13; 1Cor.15:45-49; Lk.6:27-38) "Who can lay hands on the Lord's anointed and remain unpunished?" This does David say of Saul the king of Israel – of him who has come into the desert to hunt David down and kill him – even as he stands beside a sleeping Saul, well able to "nail him to the ground with one thrust of the spear." But even though it seems that "God has delivered [his] enemy into [David's] grasp," he foregoes the opportunity, humbly respecting him whom God has ordained. Thus does he presage Christ's own teaching to "love your enemies." It…
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