June 14, 2021 - Monday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time (Fr. Patrick Carr)

2 Corinthians 6:1-10 • Matthew 5:38-42

"Offer no resistance to one who is evil." Jesus never commands the impossible. In giving us this instruction, he bestows the grace that makes it happen. This explains Saint Paul, who commended himself as a minister of God "in afflictions, hardships, beatings, and imprisonments, treated as a deceiver." The cross of Jesus gives the resplendent capacity to surpass the world's usual ways of responding.