Don’t just do the minimum - do more! This is Jesus’s challenge for His disciples and for of us today. Quite often I would have a conversation with someone who comes to confession and asks me: ‘Father, can you help me with my confession because I don’t really know what I should confess. I pray, I go to church, I don’t steal, I don’t cheat, I try to live a good life.’ That’s wonderful, I always think to myself. Yet Jesus wants all of us to do more than just the minimum; He wants us to ‘go that extra mile’. That’s why Jesus teaches us today that His disciple must love even his or her enemies, pray for those who mistreat you, give to the one who asks, but not only what they ask for - but give them even more. The disciple of Jesus can’t do only the minimum; we must do much more.
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