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    Mo Nguyen <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
    To:Nguyen Dinh
     
    Feb 15 at 5:26 AM
     
     

    SIXTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME / A – 16 FEBRUARY 2020

                                     REFLECTIONS ON THE GOSPEL

          

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              PLANTING THE LAW IN THE HEART

                                                   (Mt 5: 17-37)

    In today’s Gospel Jesus reinterprets the Law of Moses in a way that, without sweeping aside the values the law sought to protect, prioritises values such as justice, mercy, and faith in human relationships (cf. Matt 23:23).

    Over against the law’s stark prohibitions (‘You shall not…’) his pronouncements seek to go beyond mere external restraint to plant the value enshrined in the prohibition deep within the human heart.

    So over against ‘You shall not kill …,’ Jesus addresses the anger in the heart that might lead someone to kill. Deal with that and the prohibition simply doesn’t arise.

    Likewise in the matter of adultery, to a man’s fundamental attitude to a woman. Is she an object for sexual exploitation (lust) or a fellow human being demanding equality and respect? Get the attitude right and all else will fail into place.

    Where the old dispensation looked at divorce entirely from the male perspective and set in place what is basically a “harm minimisation” process, Jesus’ exclusion of it stems from a holistic view of marriage as a lifelong union of equals in mutual fidelity and companionship.

    Likewise, such trust and faithfulness should prevail in the community of the Kingdom that, to have their word taken seriously, its members should not have to have recourse to oaths – fraught, as such assertions are, with the danger of taking God’s holy name in vain.

    Looking back, what draws all these pronouncements of Jesus together is an essentially relational sense of human life, flourishing where respect, faithfulness, and consideration of the other prevail.

    Brendan Byrne, SJ

    Psalm 51 Give Me a New Heart:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWUdW97NbFM

     

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    Anger: Loving God from the Inside Out:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04SBW6LxX6w

     

    Dealing with Anger God's Way:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVpOMo-GAbg

     

    TRÁI TIM MỚI - Mp4. Phong Sương:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjcpsVW3AhI