Today’s gospel reading from St. Luke (6:27-38) continued Jesus’ conversation from yesterday. In the passage, Jesus teaches His disciples to rise above ordinary human responses by loving even their enemies and doing good without expecting anything in return.
Those practices are like swimming against the current, but they show our identity as Jesus’ true disciples, not to love only those who love us, but to love everybody equally. The hard moral lesson is that by practicing selfless love, mercy, and generosity, we reflect God’s character and open ourselves to His overflowing grace. This practice is not the human standard but God’s standard, and the Church invites us today to emulate God’s standard.