Gospel Note
This selection of the "Sermon on the Plain" provides Luke's version of Jesus' ethical injunctions. The key to the passage is in vv. 35 and 36, which indicate that what underlies all of the preceding "ethics of reversal" is an "ethics of imitation": we are to do the opposite of what wrongdoers do to us precisely because in so doing we imitate God's kindness and mercy.
Liturgical Color
Green
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