As we begin our Lenten journey, our Church provides us with many spiritual riches to pursue in our liturgy and in our Scriptures. We have 40 days of fasting, prayer, and almsgiving set before us.
Continuing His Sermon on the Mount, Jesus tells us to love our enemies and not seek revenge on those who have hurt us. If this were easy, Jesus wouldn't need to tell us to do these things!
We continue to hear from Jesus' rich teaching of the Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel of Matthew. In this part of the sermon, Jesus proposes a radical transformation of how we think about laws and commandments.
Jesus affirms that we are salt of the earth and light of the world. You and I matter! We are capable of changing the world and reclaiming it for our Lord through the working of the Holy Spirit in us.