Tuesday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time

We are asked to be perfect. What does that mean? Perhaps when we hear it, we think of acing everything. Perfect attendance. 100’s. No mistakes. No faults, no weaknesses. But how? We are human. How can Jesus ask that of us? In the Greek, the word translated into “perfect” actually comes from the word meaning “end.” Not the end of something, but the end for which we were created. In other words, the purpose and aim of our life. Jesus is reminding us that our end is God, who is love itself, and when we live in Christ, we are reaching our end.

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