LUKE 6:27-38
(1 Corinthians 8:1b-7, 11-13; Psalm 139)
KEY VERSE: "Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful" (v 36).
(1 Corinthians 8:1b-7, 11-13; Psalm 139)
KEY VERSE: "Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful" (v 36).
A Jotting from ‘A Harmony of the Gospels’,
§ A disciple in the Garden of Gethsemane
§ But only John tells us the servant's name,
§ and that it was Peter who wielded the sword.
§ And only Luke tells us that Jesus healed the wound.
The Harmony, parallel columns, allows us to see all of this at a glance.
Commentary of the day :
Saint Isaac the Syrian (7th Century), monk near Mosul
Ascetical discourses, 1st series, no. 81 (DDB 1981, p. 395)
Make no attempt to draw distinctions between the worthy and the unworthy. In your eyes let all be equal, to love and serve. In this way you can lead all to what is good. Didn't our Lord sit at table with publicans and prostitutes without rejecting those who were unworthy? Even so should you grant the same blessings and honours to unbelievers and murderers in that they, too, are your brothers since they share in the one, human nature. Here, my son, is the commandment I give you: that mercy should always weigh down your scales until you come to feel within yourself the mercy that God feels towards the world.
How can we tell when our heart has attained purity? When we regard all others as good without anyone seeming to us to be impure and defiled. Then, in truth, are we pure of heart (Mt 5,8)...
What is this purity? In brief, it is to have a heart of mercy towards the whole world.
And what is mercifulness of heart?
It is the fire that enflames it for all creation, men, birds, beasts, demons, for all created things.
Whenever he thinks about them or considers them, a man feels his eyes fill with tears out of a deep, an intense pity constricting his heart and making him unable to bear, hear or see the least harm or affliction endured by any creature.
That is why prayer accompanied by tears reaches out at all times just as much over beings without speech as over enemies of the truth or those who harm him, to keep them and purify them.
An immense and limitless compassion is born in the heart after the image of God.
Biblos Com
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