LOVE YOUR ENEMIES.
"Jesus said to his disciples:
“You have heard that it was said, You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.
“But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your heavenly Father, for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust.
“For if you love those who love you, what recompense will you have? Do not the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet your brothers and sisters only, what is unusual about that? Do not the pagans do the same? So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.” (Matthew 5: 43 - 48).
Saturday 24th February 2024 in the 1st Week in Lent.
“Love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you.”
How to love your enemies:
1. Pray for your enemies.
2. Forgive your enemies.
How to forgive your enemies?
#1. Forgive at once.
#2. Forgive everyone without discrimination.
#3. Forgive always.
#4. Forgive everywhere.
#5. "Father forgive them for they know not what they do." Forgive everyone. This step is modeled for us from the Cross. Jesus forgave in real time those who were killing Him. He did not wait until Easter Sunday when He rose from the dead to forgive.
#6. Pray everyday for all those whom you have offended, known or unknown to forgive you and set you free.
Jesus Christ invites us to a life of continual conversion so that we can pray Our Father (the Lord's Prayer) with confidence.
Prayer and Forgiveness are the two most powerful tools of the Christian.
"If you pray well, you live well. If you live well, you die well. If you die well, all is well." (St Augustine, Bishop and Doctor of the Church).
"Were you to ask what are the means of overcoming temptations, I would answer: The first means is prayer; the second is prayer; the third is prayer; and you, should you ask me a thousand times, I would repeat the same."
(St Alphonsus Liguori, Bishop and Doctor of the Church).
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