Gospel: June 14, 2025
June 14, 2025 (Saturday)
10th Week in Ordinary Time
Psalter: Week 2 (Green/White)
Blessed Virgin Mary
Ps 103:1-2, 3-4, 9-10, 11-12
The Lord is kind and merciful
1st Reading: 2 Corinthians 5:14-21
Gospel: Matthew 5:33-37
You have also heard that people were told in the past: Do not break your oath; an oath sworn to the Lord must be kept. But I tell you this: do not take oaths. Do not swear by the heavens, for they are God’s throne; nor by the earth, because it is his foot stool; nor by Jerusalem, because it is the city of the great king. Do not even swear by your head, because you cannot make a single hair white or black. Let your ‘Yes’ mean ‘Yes’ and your ‘No’ mean ‘No.’ Anything else you say comes from the evil one.
Reflection:
“We are made new in Christ.”
I was speaking to a friend who talked about how her attitude changed when she became a mother. Her focus in life completely changed. Indeed, it was as if she inhabited a new world, seeing things in a different way. Saint Paul also talks of a new world and a change in people. This time, however, we are the babies, not the parents, and we are reborn in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, in Baptism. “The one who is in Christ is a new creature. For him, … a new world has come.” We are made new in Christ: new through the forgiveness of sin, new in the life of grace, new in the capacity for virtue, new in possibilities to serve the Lord. Through Christ we have a new existence and a new perspective. “We do not regard anyone from a human point of view.” Secular philosophy would have us do quite the opposite, by looking at human existence from a mechanical perspective, excluding the spiritual qualities of being human. But we are incarnate spirit, reborn in Christ, destined for the glory of heaven. That’s the real perspective on life.
