Dear Readers (16/2010)

You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery;' but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart. If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna. If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna. 'It was also said, 'Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,' but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery. 'Again you have heard that it was said to them of old time, 'You shall not make false vows, but shall perform to the Lord your vows,' but I tell you, don't swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God; nor by the earth, for it is the footstool of his feet; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. Neither shall you swear by your head, for you can't make one hair white or black. But let your 'Yes' be 'Yes' and your 'No' be 'No.' Whatever is more than these is of the evil one. 'You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.'* But I tell you, don't resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also. If anyone sues you to take away your coat, let him have your cloak also. Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two. Give to him who asks you, and don't turn away him who desires to borrow from you. 'You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor,* and hate your enemy.*' But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you, that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven.

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	Dear Readers (16/2010)

Author: ks. Mieczysław Piotrowski TChr,
Love One Another! 16/2010 → The main topic

Through His death and resurrection, Christ embraced all of humankind in His Divine Mercy. In rising from the dead, He scored the definitive victory over sin and death.

“Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?” (1 Cor 15: 55).

Since Christ’s resurrection is the overarching fact of human history, its salvific reality is constantly present in the sacraments of the Church. When we sincerely confess our sins in the sacrament of penance and receive Jesus with a pure heart in Holy Communion, we receive “a medicine of immortality, an antidote to death” — a guarantee of our own resurrection. “Those who feed on Christ in the Eucharist,” John Paul II tells us, “need not wait until the hereafter to receive eternal life: they already possess it on earth, as the first-fruits of a future fullness, which will embrace man in his totality” (Ecclesia de eucharistia, 18).

To all our readers, benefactors, and distributors, we extend our earnest wish that the Feast of the Resurrection will transform your lives and bring total trust in God’s boundless mercy. Only such trust can scatter our worries, anxieties, and fears of the future. It is then that we experience within ourselves the infinite mercy of the Risen Christ and His power to conquer every weakness, temptation, sin, and, finally, at the close of our earthly life, death itself.

Thank you for your generous contributions to Love One Another’s publishing fund and your “adoption” of our readers in the mission lands. Thanks to your sacrifices, we are able to publish and distribute our magazine free of charge throughout Africa, India, Eastern Europe, and the former territories of the USSR. Please continue, to the extent your means and circumstances allow, to partake in this work of “adoption.” Be missionaries in your own neighborhoods as well. Help us to win more readers in your country.

In rising from the death, Jesus conquered every evil. Let us allow Him to achieve this victory within our own hearts. For your intentions, we continue to offer up a daily rosary and chaplet of divine mercy and a weekly Mass.

Fr. M. Piotrowski SChr & the LOA staff

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The above article was published with permission from "Love One Another!" in June 2016.

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