WORD 2day: Tuesday, 11th week in Ordinary time
June 17, 2025 - 2 Corinthians 8: 1-9; Matthew 5: 43-48
Continuing to reflect on the Sermon on the mount, today we have reached that place where Jesus teaches us about loving, loving like Christ, loving after the model of God's love - the love that considered only giving - never the conditions involved. In any giving there can be a few conditions involved logically - to whom, to what end, to what extent... and so on. Is that not simple and normal? Jesus breaks all those so-called norms, when he presents God's love as the model of our giving.
God loved us...and gave; gave everything. St. Paul explains that in the passage we read today: Remember how generous the Lord Jesus was: he was rich, but he became poor for your sake, to make you rich out of his poverty. Love is translated as "giving" and what type of giving? A Christ-giving! It is a life style presented to us by Christ himself - giving without measure, without conditions of deserving or not, and without any assurance of its return in whatever kind.
That is what he meant when he said, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you! Give, because you wish to give; give because you have a heart to give; give because that is how you life. This is Christ.giving, a life style of love, a love that imitates God who gave everything, Christ who gave everything and the Spirit who gives up everything to reside within us!
Let us pick up this life style, the Christ-giving.