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Christianity is manifested mainly in deeds.
It has already happened to you that you were walking down the street, and the neighbor you are with was walking opposite you. Have you been on knives for a long time? As he approached you, they swirled differently in your head memories, and suddenly the neighbor greeted you. You look at him. First, they looked in amazement, then you healed him, and then you went in with his words. In the end, it turned out that you are not such great enemies and that they are all discrepancies are rectified. Jesus says, “If you love those who love you, what a reward you can make wait? Don’t even toll booths do that? And if you greet only your brothers, what do you do strangely? ”(Mt 5: 46-47)
In the Old Testament, my neighbor was only a friend, a Jew, and only I should show him love, while I should regard others as sinners and enemies. That means I don’t even have to greet them and show them good deeds. The Pharisees also followed this. They greeted only self-confident, but not of the publicans and sinners who were outcasts from their humanity, traitors to the homeland. But Jesus asks us Christians to act otherwise, to “do something special.” Greetings in the Oriental countries meant much more than just courtesy. The greeting meant a wish of blessing and peace for the other.1 We Christians have to do something special to differentiate ourselves from pagans. Jesus asks us to pray for our persecutors, to love our enemies, and to greet sinners. Because we are all children of Heavenly Father, and we are all brothers to one another. And so as we liken our infinitely merciful Father. Saint Peter writes that we are called to bless others and become heirs ourselves (cf. 1 Pet 3: 9). So we Christians are to differentiate ourselves from others by that we will bless our enemies as well.
It is known that in the early Church, “all believers had one heart and one the soul ”(Acts 4:32). They loved each other, and their love permeated those who they did not yet believe in Christ, and the heathen themselves pointed to Christians and spoke among themselves, “Look how they love one another,” and this love led them to believe in Christ. Although they persecuted and imprisoned Christians, Christians did not behave rudely and disrespectfully, leading to many conversions. We see that it pays off to be special and not to adapt to this world and to do what it asks of us in this world. It pays to be the most like Jesus, to strive for perfection, for also our heavenly Father is perfect. Let’s try to pray in the spirit of today’s gospel: Lord, Jesus. You yourself teach us how to love our enemies. You prayed on the cross for those who crucified you. Please give us grace, that we may behave like you and become our heirs forever blessings.

Let the good win in our lives.
You must have experienced a situation where two people first started arguing verbally. One, he cursed at the first and the second at first. Then, the insults escalated, slowly approaching the battle. And these two people became enemies for life and death. The Lord Jesus tells us, “Do not resist evil. If someone hits you after with the right cheek, set him up the other ”(Mt 5:39).
At first glance, it would seem that Jesus wants us to leave us free to spread evil. If someone does something wrong, we should leave him or him happy; we are to help continue the evil. We do not distribute such a way of injustice? Let’s put everything in perspective. Basic the key to correct understanding is the phrase, “Do not resist evil.” We do not have to oppose evil as such, absolutely evil, nor the evil, the devil. Badman that is the one who hurts me. Jesus does not deny that he is a bad person. He doesn’t ask us to pretend to be different! Jesus does not want us not to retaliate for evil.

Jesus wants us never to seek revenge. We prefer to suffer injustice, how to do injustice. We have to answer evil with good. Because evil repays with an even greater evil, the insult returns with an even greater insult. She had remorse repaid by angry words; oil is poured into the fire, evil grows, personal retribution rages unabated. When she lets it run, it ends in decay, disruption, chaos, the struggle of all against all.3 We already read in the Old Testament how God tells the Israelites that He alone includes retribution and revenge (cf. Deut 32:25). Or the Book of Proverbs says that we are not to repay others according to our deeds (cf. Prov. 24:29). Against evil, fight only with love and goodness. As St. Paul says, “Do not repay evil for evil, or a curse for curse; but rather, bless ”(1 Peter 3: 9). if we show love, mercy, goodness to a man who does evil to us, so be it sooner turn around. If he sees our love, finds out that he has done evil, then he will change his life and go on the path of repentance.

Let’s look now at the Old Testament, the figure of David. As Saul persecuted him, though David did him no harm, he was very anxious beneficial. And when David was fled from Saul, he entered into a cave. To this cave, Saul also came. David began to talk to take revenge on Saul. However, David secretly cut off the edge of Saul’s cloak. And he said, “Let the Lord be far from it to me! I will not do this to my master! ” When Saul heard this, he stopped to persecute David because he saw that he had no anger in him (cf. 1 Sam 24: 1-22). In this story, although it is difficult, it is beneficial if your own we will show love to the enemy. Only love is the only force it can turn the enemy into a friend; only love has creative and liberating power. Lord, Jesus Christ, teach us that in retribution, we will not solve anything. Give us the grace to understand that only love can transform evil. Let us act according to your mercy, and so we follow you, the innocent lamb you are. He also laid down his life for his enemies.

 CREATED AND MAINTAINED BY THE WORD
“It is hidden from them – and they want it – that or is long gone and
that the earth has risen By God’s word… ” (2Pt 3.5 )
The world (and we with it) exists as an idea in God’s mind:
• God thinks of us – and we exist.
• If he forgot about us – we would disappear… God’s revelation, basically, says the world exists in God similar to, for example, a virtual world computer game that exists in the computer. Given this analogy, what do you think why God is…:
• invisible?
• Almighty?
• omniscient?
• ubiquitous?
He could do the same, not to be? Reasonable Answer = 1 Credit Today What Other Divine Characteristics Should you have proved from this analogy deduce? Reasonable Answer = 1 Today’s Credit A character from a computer game can’t “Jump out” and look at the computer,  which exists, nor to the programmer or player. Therefore, the computer is invisible to her… … Even though the computer is much more real than just the “virtual world “of computer games and characters, they live by him!
So is God inaccessible to our sense we cannot be with Him meet “from face to face faces ” as with by someone else creature?
NOTE
GOD IS A SPIRIT.
– Not because he is less than human, because “he has nobody”…
-… but because it is, on the contrary, infinitely more and more real than a man who is “just a body”! Still, for the virtual world, A computer game is a computer itself “Invisible” yet REAL – more real than the whole game and its world! – And he has an almost infinite number of possibilities, how to intervene in this virtual world, or communicate with its “inhabitants,” build relationships with them (if he can), and similarly.
GOD  IS  also REAL – he the most real of the real. There are a huge number of ways how God manifests in the world. The meaning of Christianity is not to “believe in the existence of God ”(we know for sure!), but
LIVING WITH GOD: truly, tangibly, to form a relationship with Him and a very close community!
NOTE
God’s Name JHWH: “Who Is” … Expresses God’s REALITY, on the one hand, proximity: “Who is with you! Man… discovers certain “paths” to reach the knowledge of God. They are also called “evidence of the existence of God,” but not in terms of the evidence they seek in natural sciences, but as “consistent and convincing arguments ” that make it possible to obtain a true one certainty. ” (KKC 31)
• For example, history works similarly, criminology, forensic science,… – all only They inherit something for sure they didn’t see, they can’t see, they can’t touch, nor demonstrated “in a test tube,” such as biologist…
NOTE
In practice, therefore, we encounter statements that, on the one hand, “there is no (direct) proof of the existence of God, ” on the other hand, we know for sure that it exists – from His manifestations and other signs of His presence. God is present in everything and pervades everything – from galaxies to the last quark – simply because it wouldn’t exist if it were not in God! God keeps all things powerful word. ” (Heb 1: 3)
Anything on the computer game and its world exists and is happening; it exists only because it is constantly maintained and generated by the processor of the computer that is so in all – to the last
pixel – present and everything “Penetrates”. Without it, there would be nothing in the game’s virtual world; it could not exist. Similarly, God knows, but in a way, even “living together,” everything is happening in the Universe, including the fate of each man. “Sir, you examine me and know everything about me.” By far, you can perceive my thoughts… all my paths are known to you. Although still a word I don’t even have a tongue, you, Lord, already know what I want to say. You surround me in front of behind, and you lay your hand on me. ” (Ps 139: 1-5)
For this reason, the computer perfectly, accurately, and unmistakably knows and knows everything in the virtual world of computer games that create happens. In essence, he can’t do this virtual world computer game be something the computer would not “know” about. Similarly, God knows, but in a way, even “living together,” everything is happening in the Universe, including the fate of each man. “Sir, you examine me, and you know everything about me.” by far, you perceive my thoughts… all mine the paths are known to you. Although I don’t have a word yet tongue, you, Lord, already know what I want to say. You surround me from the front and the back, and you put me in your hand. ” (Ps 139: 1-5)
For this reason, the computer perfectly, accurately, and unmistakably knows and knows everything in the virtual world of computer games that create happens. In essence, he can’t do this virtual world computer game be something the computer would not “know” about.
God not only perfectly knows the presence, but he also knows perfectly also PAST,  THE FUTURE, because he himself is OUT TIME.

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Encourage people to use words judiciously and pass on information
We live in a time when promises are not kept. The word is priceless. Not only individuals and nations, and states sign treaties but immediately break them and default. How many marital vows at marriage are not fulfilled. In this company of wrath and lies, we Christians must be known, for by our word, we will observe at all times.
In today’s Gospel, the Lord told His disciples, and it is true of course also for us: “Let your speech be” yes-yes, “no-no “(Mt 5:37).
In these few sentences, the Lord Jesus deals very deeply with the eighth commandments. It not only repeats the ban on false oaths, but adds a ban at all to swear. Jesus clearly and firmly opposes the abuse of that time of swearing and against the punishment of valid and invalid oaths. According to Jesus, it is not an ever-needed oath of affirmation and confirmation in everyday life truth. Here is complete truthfulness without any reassuring oath, the only guarantee of true brotherhood. The scribes have consistently sworn as well in everyday matters. However, Jesus says, “Do not swear at all” (Mt 5:34).
Do not use all those reassuring and binding or non-binding oaths at all. You know God is included in these oaths. Jesus’ disciple is to say Yes, or No, I am to be truthful. We do not think that Christ commands us to use the one-syllable with these words’ speech Not. He wants to teach us how direct and unambiguous we should be. Yes, let it be yes. No, let it not. There is no compromise. We have to speak and truth. From such a pure attitude, they grow simple and true interpersonal relationships. But what have we done in life from our words and behavior Confusion? We have sown distrust and constant suspicion. From store to politics, from family to international relations. Deceiving is an almost effort each and all. And that entangles life and interpersonal encounters. Then even the most common information becomes questionable. Many people also say yes, nor not, depending on what is profitable. They speak without conviction. They repeat phrases. They adapt to opinion. They say what is nice to others. However, the liar is sooner. Whether it manifests itself later, the truth will come out. It cannot be neutral. Who is reluctant to stand on the side of truth is already on the side of lies. To be vague, to be double means the loss of friends. Our words are a mirror of our mind and the voice of the heart.

If we are internally filled with the truth, we will have no problem standing up to the side of the truth, speak the truth. What are my words? I say what you are too, I mean? Or do I think one and speak the other? So also St. James, in his letter he warns us, “Let your yes be yes and no let it be, lest you fail the court ”(James 5:12).
For our eyes to be a real yes and not a real no, let us also learn
from the following story. A panting friend ran up to Socrates and gasped his breath began to say, “Listen, Socrates, I must tell you something important ‘you’re a friend…” “Wait,” the sage interrupted, “did you sift what you want to tell me through three sieves?”
“Over three sieves?” The messenger wondered.
“Yes, through three sieves. The first sieve is true. You’re sure all you want to tell me is following the truth? ”
“I don’t know, he told me….”
“Yes, yes, but you must have sifted it through a second sieve, and that’s good. If that’s what you want me to say is not true, it is definitely good. “
“Vice versa!”
“Well,” the philosopher interrupted, “use the third sieve and think about what You want to say it is necessary. “
“Necessary? Probably not.”
“Then,” Socrates smiled, “if what you want to tell me is not true, not even good, not necessarily, don’t bother yourself or me. “
Let us sift our words through three sieves, truth, goodness, and necessity. If we do this, our eyes will be yes and no will not. These will be Jesus’ witnesses and propagators of the truth. The strength to make us prosper, please, even at this Holy Mass.

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If someone asked you if you have a heart, what would be the answer? That I ask for stupidity? After all, every living person must have a heart! In the discussion on interpersonal relations on Slovak Radio, the remark was also made: “The number of people without a heart is growing.” How many people in our neighborhood suffer from the absence of love, heart in their family and neighborhood! Old children and a wife to husband, subordinate to superior talk about heartless heart, stone heart, incomprehensible heart … Yes, every living person has a heart. The heartbeats and a person’s life. He has no health problems with the heart, he has no stone in his chest, but the heart is a muscle of meat, and Lifeblood flows through it … We understand that the word “heart” also expresses love, a relationship with people or the character of the man. Blood and water came forth “(Jn 19:34) in connection with salvation, eternal life.

The call from the Litany to the Divine Heart of Jesus says: the spear breaks the heart. The Church Fathers, writers, theologians touch on salvation in this act. The pierced Heart of Jesus points to the love of God’s Son Jesus for the Father. Jesus boldly carried out the plan of salvation. The pierced Heart of Jesus represents love for people, “he loved them to the extreme” (Jn 13: 1). Jesus underwent the greatest sacrifice in human history when given as the whole self-sacrifice. The pierced Heart is a sign of the completeness of love, both supernatural and natural. The pierced heart is an image of the new life given to man by the Holy Spirit, especially through prayer, Holy Mass, the sacrament. The actions of a soldier, the piercing of the side of Christ with a spear, and the consequent flow of water and blood from the side of Christ is a sign that Jesus was indeed dead. That is, Jesus, born in Bethlehem and rose from the dead on the third day after being buried in a glorified body, is the true God. Thus, the old or new doctors, that is, the denial of the human nature of Christ, will not stand. The Gospels describe the death of the Lord Jesus, but this tragedy, the terrible death, the real death of Christ, is for us believers a sign of new life, the hope of eternal life. From this point of view, John’s description of the event of the piercing of the Heart is fundamental. Just as a strong spring of water gushed from a rock in the wilderness on which Moses struck, so from the heart of Christ pierced by a spear flowed water, which had the power to quench the thirst for those who would believe in Christ the Savior and Redeemer.

Water from the side of Christ is the gift of the Holy Spirit, which revives the divine life in us. The Church was born of the pierced Heart of the Lord Jesus. As a woman was born of Adam’s rib, so was the Church, his bride, born of the Savior’s pierced Heart. The Church was born of water and blood, baptism, and the Eucharist, which flow from the pierced Heart. “The marvelous mystery of the whole Church has been leaked from the side on the cross of the dead Christ” (SC 5). The Apostle St. John reminds us that Mary, the mother of Jesus, stood under the cross. She saw blood and water flowing from Son’s side. People, she understood Jesus’ words, “Woman, behold, thy son” (Jn 19:26), and John understood the words of Master Jesus: “Behold, thy mother” (Jn 19:27). The Church confesses for this event that she is entrusted to the maternal love of the Virgin Mary.

Encourage people to strive for real relationships with their neighbors.
Snake experts say the rattlesnake is known to be trapped. If so, he becomes enraged and may bite himself and perish from his own poison. In the same way, a person can be destroyed when he keeps himself constant anger and rage; it acts as a poison and destroys his health. Doctors claim that chemical changes in our bodies under the influence of anger are harmful to certain authorities. Thus, man can be destroyed by his own anger. Jesus urged us today not to keep our anger at our neighbors in our hearts (cf. Mt 2: 23-24).
In the Gospels, we heard the first of Jesus’ so-called antithesis, which regulates The Old Testament with the same authority with which God proclaimed it. The first antithesis is concerned with the fifth commandment. God’s law looks not only at the deed but more deeply at the original deed, to the mind that is behind him. So Jesus reaches for the root and shows us that anger equals murder. Jesus addressed these words to his disciples. A flat disciple means to form a brotherhood. There must be no anger in this fraternity. What does it mean to get angry? Anger can manifest itself in two ways: inside and out. The anger inside means being bitter, bitter at your brother, being
internally upset, harboring anger, not associating with a brother, separating from him, and devouring internally. Anger on the outside means being upset, exploding, treating a brother, being ruthless, being vicious, manifesting ruthless thinking, get angry. It’s all murder on my brother. Where they are in the heart, all the above-mentioned kinds of anger were present; there is the disciple already deserved to be judged in action because he became his brother’s murderer.
Jesus asks that we not limit our righteousness to external acts, to refrain from evil deeds, but to strengthen this justice in their thoughts, desires, desires, and everything in general internal acts. We are to make and perfect the kingdom of heaven with all his being, and therefore with all his thoughts. The ambition of the sincere, it is the man to be as he is within. Jesus’ words, which we have heard today, are solemn. Let’s be honest, often to them; we pay no attention. It surprises us; to be honest, it’s too much justice. However, we have experience with ourselves. If we keep in our heart anger, we wish our opponent badly, we don’t want anything to do with him, and they were we would like it not to exist for us. Well, whether this attitude is not spiritual, meaning murder? Under the influence of anger, we often say words to us later, and sometimes for the rest of their lives, they regret. We need not act in anger. Let’s try to get rid of anger first, reconcile with our brother. One gentleman says: “My co-worker wrote a bad letter to his father in anger. I advised him not to send him because he wrote him under the influence of anger. He didn’t listen, but he asked me to put the letter in the mailbox because he didn’t make it himself. I know he did not throw. I waited until the next day. In the morning, a worried colleague came to work: Georg, I am very sorry that I sent a letter to my father yesterday. It can lead to a stroke. He had I obey you. I wouldn’t know what to do to get him back. I pulled out a sheet from the bag and handed it to him. He was happy. ” Let’s start fighting anger inside today. Let’s start with this for a while. And since this fight is not easy, let us ask for strength to persevere in it.