FIRST READING
Leviticus 19:1—2, 17—18
Leviticus 19:1—2, 17—18
SECOND READING
1 Corinthians 3:16—23
1 Corinthians 3:16—23
GOSPEL
Matthew 5:38—48
Matthew 5:38—48
THEME:
WE ALL ARE FOR CHRIST.
Christ
is God and God is Holy. If we are for Christ, that means, we should be Holy.
Holiness is not doing extraordinary things but doing ordinary things in an
extraordinary way.
How
do we do ordinary things in an extraordinary way? Do everything in love and
with love. Once we put love first in everything we do, we are doing them in an
extraordinary way. Love should be in the centre of our lives. Christ is God and
God is love, so we should also be love. Where love abides holiness lives in
full there. Holiness of spirit and body. We are to be Holy for our heavenly
father is Holy. When we say that he is Holy, we are just limiting him to a
point. He is Holiness itself. And we should be holy as his children.
St.
Augustine propounded the theory of Rationale seminale that is. God left
a genre in creatures that make them procreate their different species. A goat
cannot beget a fish. If we are really children of God, and God is holy, he that
is holy can only give birth to another who is holy, which means, we to be holy. Continue Reading