BE KIND AND MERCIFUL LIKE YOUR FATHER.
BE PERFECT LIKE YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER.
THE GOOD NEWS:
"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 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).
Tuesday 16th June 2026 in the 11th Week in Ordinary Time.
LOVE YOUR ENEMIES.
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).
"If you pray more, you sin less.
If you pray less, you sin more." (Anonymous).
Ask the Sacred Heart of Jesus whom we honor in June to give you the grace to forgive all your enemies.
The Holy Catholic Church honors the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus every June.
"Let us leave the care of our future entirely to the Sacred Heart. He knows our needs, He desires our happiness, and His Providence is infinite. Our sole duty is to love Him and fulfill His holy will."— Fr. Jean Croiset, S.J.
We waste immense spiritual energy projecting worries into the future—worrying about health updates, spatial order, and life transitions.
Father Croiset calls you to a radical, liberating teleology: your only duty today is to love the Person of Jesus and execute His immediate will.
Leave the architecture of tomorrow entirely to His infinite Providence.
He knows your exact physical and material needs better than you do, and He desires your ultimate eternal happiness with an intensity you cannot fathom.
Close your eyes to the anxieties of the future and rest inside the certainty of His present grace.
Prayer:
Sacred Heart of Jesus, I hand over my future entirely to Your infinite, loving Providence.
"Be Thou, O Most Merciful Heart, my justification before God Thy Father, and screen me from His anger which I have so justly merited. I fear all from my own weakness and malice, but placing my entire confidence in Thee, O Heart of Love, I hope all from Thine infinite Goodness.
Annihilate in me all that can displease or resist Thee. Imprint Thy pure love so deeply in my heart that I may never forget Thee or be separated from Thee."
Read of the abundant promises made to people who honor the Sacred Heart of Jesus especially in June and in the First Fridays of every month.
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