6TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME A

 

THE GOSPEL HAS EYES…

MT 5: 17-37

 

 

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The late pope, St. John Paul II, became controversial in his time when he taught that a man who forces his wife to have relations with him against her will commits the sin of adultery. Some people were incredulous. How could he say that when those two were already married? Others were furious. What right has he to judge an extremely private matter?

 

Today it becomes clear to us that the Gospel has eyes. The Gospel sees us and through us right into our hearts. The words of the Lord provide us with a new way of seeing things. Where we have a tendency to gloss over the surface, the Gospel penetrates deeper into it. Where we have a tendency to fixate on the law, the Gospel reaches into the inner meaning of the law. The Lord clearly said it. He did not intend to break the law but to fulfill it; meaning to say, to uncover the vast, expansive and insightful directions the law points to us.

 

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