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<b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:none;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><div style="margin:0px 6pt 0px 0px;outline:none;padding:0px;color:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">Friends, in today’s Gospel<b><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)">, Jesus commands us to love our enemies.</span></b></span></div>
<br><div style="margin:0px 6pt 0px 0px;outline:none;padding:0px;color:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">And
 Jesus showed us how to do it.</span> <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)">Immediately after being fixed to the 
cross, he said, "Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they 
are doing."</span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">One of the most important elements of Jesus’ kingdom ethic 
was, accordingly, the praxis of forgiveness: </span><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)">"Love your enemies and pray
 for those who persecute you."</span></span></b></div>
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 Walter Wink has pointed out, <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">these recommendations have nothing to do 
</span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">with passivity<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"> in the face </span>of evil.</span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"> Rather, they embody a provocative 
but nonviolent manner of confronting</span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">evil </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">and conquering <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">it </span>through a 
practice of coinherent love. By forgiving </span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">those putting</span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">him </span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">to death</span>,<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"> 
Jesus is awakening</span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">them</span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">to the truth </span></span></b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">in which</span> they </span>already stand: their 
connectedness to him and to <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">each other</span> in God.</b></span></span></div><div style="margin:0px 0px 0px 6pt;outline:none;padding:0px;color:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit"><span style="font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal;color:rgb(0,0,255);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b>Dicsőség az Atyának, a Fiúnak és a Szentléleknek most és mindörökké. Ámen.<br></b></span></div></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b>

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