DAILY LITURGY (06/14/2025): Matthew 5,33-37 - I tell you, do not swear at all.
Saturday, June 14, 2025 10th Week of Ordinary Time, Odd Year (I) Readings: 2Cor 5,14-21 Ps 102(103),1-2.3-4.8-9.11-12 (R. 8a) Mt 5,33-37 HOMILY We are in chapter 5 of the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus gives a new and more profound law. Everything you have heard, look now into your heart. You have heard what was said, but I say to you. Jesus speaks of being a person of our word 2Cor 5,14-21 – Today Paul continues his reflection on the newness of reconciliation and the death of Christ for all of us. This relationship between Christ and the church is in reconciliation. It is true that humanity is sinful, but God renewed it by transferring sin to Christ. The death of Jesus is the clearest reconciliation designed by God. Begun in the incarnation and completed by the resurrection. It is love that absorbs us completely. What was old has passed away, behold, we speak all things new. Ps 102(103) - The Lord is forgiving, he is favorable. Mt 5,33-37 - When we make an oath, we call on an authority outside of ourselves, that is, I call on the person to give my word. Jesus said: do not swear by heaven, nor by anything. Because in the face of these realities we are nothing. Let your yes be yes, your no be no. Everything that cannot be achieved with a yes or a no I shouldn't even want. We only swear to protect something we have, to justify ourselves and protect what others will think of us. That is why Jesus says: anything that goes beyond that, anything that needs many words and explanations, you should not be involved with. Our word must be important, without demanding the presence of another person. Men and women of their word, of honor, of respect. How sad it is when a person's word is worth nothing. If he said he will, he will. That's character. Let us ask God for the grace to ask Saint Anthony so that what is beyond our lives does not come to dirty our hearts. May we have men and women in our church to teach the gospel, the word of the Lord Jesus. Amen.
