Monday of week 11 in Ordinary Time
Gospel – Matthew 5:38-42
“On the contrary, if anyone hits you on the right cheek, offer him the other as well”. This is a completely new paradigm. Accepting the violence and welcoming more into you. This is the way of the Cross. Accept the fault of the other and transform it in the cross by love for that person. This is what happened in the Cross. Jesus Christ came to save the world. He was crucified. He welcomed all His sufferings. And in the Cross He forgave us and opened the door of heaven for us. The evil cannot do harm to us because in the Cross the evil is defeated definitively. But in forgiveness the man subjected to evil is welcomed to convert and receive the light. When you don’t react back violently when someone hits you on the right cheek and you offer him the other, this reaction is something different. This gesture is a call to the person who is resorting to violence that the violence has no power. Only love has power to transform. So, in the model of Jesus Christ, all violence, forcefulness, aggressiveness loses its strength. Love becomes powerful. Let’s reflect: How much I understand according to the Gospel the weakness of aggressiveness?
Monday 17 June
