THE GOSPEL
Luke 6:27-38Give and gifts will be given to you.
Injured?
Offer the other cheek.
There is only embrace and kiss.
Don’t lend and demand repayment, you say.
There is only give all your money, or whatever you have.
There is no get-that-cloak-back when someone takes your coat.
Instead, buy the person a wardrobe.
God of inexhaustible love,
pour your gift of love on us, over us and within us,
all of it, shaken down, overflowing.
Let us love each other well,
with your own
prodigal,
radical,
love.
THE FIRST READING
1 Samuel 26:2, 7-9, 12-13, 22-23
“I would not harm the Lord’s anointed.”
Lord,
let us do no harm,
never return hit for hit.
Guide us to where you live
in our souls.
God of pardoning love,
help us always
to forgive.
THE SECOND READING
1 Corinthians 15:45-49
Just as we have borne the image of the earthly one,
we shall also bear the image of the heavenly one.
Christ,
we are only earth.
But you open us to you.
We go up to heaven through you.
Heaven comes down to us through you.
You are the gate, the gate keeper
the one who opens us
to make all earth
holy.
Thanks.