LOVE OUR ENEMIES AND PRAY FOR OUR PERSECUTORS: CATHOLIC SUNDAY SCRIPTURE REFLECTION: 7TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, CYCLE A, 2023
To love our enemies and pray for our persecutors is the Christian calling, we all receive from a merciful and lovely God who urges us to make effort and struggle toward perfection. Hence, today, the challenge in the readings is for us, “to be holy as he the Lord is holy” Lev. 19:2 or “perfect as our heavenly Father is perfect” Mt. 5:48.