The non-violent Manifesto of Jesus

Homilies by Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM

Center for Action and Contemplation

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 23 February 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Matthew 5:38-48

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation.
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0:09.4	The Lord be with you.
0:11.8	A reading from the Holy Gospel as written to us by Matthew.
0:17.0	Lord.
0:20.0	Jesus said to his disciples, you have heard that it was said, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
0:32.0	In recent weeks we've been calling that for a tooth for a tooth.
0:33.1	In recent weeks, we've been calling that quib pro quo thinking.
0:38.4	That's the way most people think.
0:41.0	But I say to you offer no resistance to the one who is evil.
0:47.0	Wow.
0:48.0	When someone strikes you on your right cheek, turn the other as well. If anyone wants to go to
0:56.3	law with you over your tunic and over your cloak as well.
1:03.3	If anyone tries to press you into service for one mile,
1:08.2	go to.
1:10.4	Give to the one who asks of you, and do not turn your back on the one who wants to borrow from you.
1:19.0	You have heard that it was said you shall love your neighbor but hate your enemy.
1:27.1	But I say to you love your enemy.
1:36.0	Pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Heavenly Father.
1:40.0	For he makes his son to rise on the good and the bad.
1:48.0	He causes his reign to fall on the just and the unjust. If you just love those who love you, what's so good
1:59.7	about that? The tax collectors do the same. If you greet just your own kind, your own
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