MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20TH, 2023 “It is normal for us to love those who love us, and to be friends of those who are friends to us; yet Jesus provokes us by saying: if you act in this way, “what more are you doing than others?” Here is the point to which I would like to draw your attention today, to what you do that is extraordinary.“More”, “extraordinary”, is what goes beyond the limits of the usual, what exceeds the habitual practices and normal calculations dictated by prudence. Instead, in general we try to have everything more or less in order and under control, so as to correspond to our expectations, to our measure: fearing not to be reciprocated or to expose ourselves too much and then be disappointed, we prefer to love only those who love us in order to avoid disappointments, to do good only to those who are good to us, to be generous only to those who can return a favor; and to those who treat us badly, we respond in kind, so that we are even.If we remain in the ordinary, in the balance between giving and receiving, things do not change. If God were to follow this logic, we would have no hope of salvation! But, fortunately for us, God’s love is always “extraordinary”, it goes beyond the usual criteria by which we humans live out our relationships.”
Pope Francis
the road to sainthood is always:
forgiveness, love of enemies and immaterialism.
Garrison Keillor
The Vibrant Channeled Creator 