Homily: 7th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A (2/2020)

Readings: Lev 9:1-2, 17-18; Ps 103; 1 Cor 3:16-23; Mt 5:38-48
Jesus instructs us to offer no resistance to one who is evil. Forget about man's justice, He tells us. Don't worry about just compensation. We are instead called to overwhelm the wrongdoer with incredible generosity. We hear all this and are almost overwhelmed, but then Jesus adds: "So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect” [Mt 5:48] He calls us to the perfection of the Beatitudes: to be poor in spirit; to hunger and thirst for righteousness, for justice; to seek meekness and purity of heart; to be merciful, a peacemaker…