In the Walk towards the knowledge and acceptance of Christ: Year A

6TH SUNDAY – A: (Sir 15:15-20; 1Cor 2:6-10; Mt 5:17-37)
Theme: We need to buy and to obtain the True Law of Christ
Reflection:
- The law is needed because it guides us to the knowledge of the truth; it leads us to the embracing of the true wisdom
- We have to walk towards knowing and accepting the Lord.
First Reading:
- The wisdom is
o Leaving out what is bad, that is, the death; and
o Selecting what is good, that is, the life.
Psalm: our walk is always a walk with the taste and splendor and we are exactly happy because we are walking in the law of the Lord.
Second Reading:
- The world never understands the immense love of God revealed and manifested through the wisdom of the cross and crucified.
Gospel:
- Jesus himself is the New Law of God
- He came not to abolish but fulfill and perfect what was given.
- Law never makes a man slave.
- The true liberty contains in the observing the law of the creator.
- Great connection between the Law and Kingdom
o Who is least in the world becomes great in the kingdom
o One has to supersede the old law
o Ten Commandments summarized in the one great law: Love.
- Passage from the observing of the law to the living of love.

In our walk towards the perfect knowledge of Christ we accept his laws, we accept Him the True Law of God.


7TH SUNDAY – A: (Lev 19:1-2, 17-18; 1Cor 3:16-23; Mt 5:38-48)
Theme: walking with the word and action of love
Reflection:
- Becoming mature day by day
- A passage from yesterday to today and from today to tomorrow
- Daily living of the word and growing in it.
First Reading:
- A non being (do not be against your brother)
- A being for oneself (love your brother as yourself)
Gospel:
- A being for others (essere oltre)
- From hating to loving as oneself to loving as Jesus has loved us.
- Passage from ordinary and normal love to loving for love
- If our love does not supersede this ordinary love we are still in Old Testament and we are the children of the Old Law
- But now we are children of the New Law, the Law of Christ.

It is not easy to understand the depths of love; it is not easy to find the real and authentic meaning of love; but we can always LOOK at Jesus on the cross for the Word and Action of Love. This is very important in the walk of love.