Judges, Chapter 7, Verse 10-11
10 If you are afraid to attack, go down to the camp with your aide Purah
11 and listen to what they are saying. After
that you will have the courage to descend on the camp. So he went down with his
aide Purah to the outposts of the armed men in the camp.
“Take courage; get up, he is calling you.” (Mk:
10:49)
Christ calls us to a
greater purpose than he did Gideon:
No man or woman of good will can
renounce the struggle to overcome evil with good. This fight can be fought
effectively only with the weapons of love. When good overcomes evil, love
prevails and where love prevails, there peace prevails. This is the
teaching of the Gospel, restated by the Second Vatican Council: "the
fundamental law of human perfection, and consequently of the transformation of
the world, is the new commandment of love"…Christians must be convinced
witnesses of this truth. They should show by their lives that love is the only
force capable of bringing fulfillment to persons and societies, the only force
capable of directing the course of history in the way of goodness and peace…By
Christ's death and resurrection, made sacramentally present in each Eucharistic
celebration, we are saved from evil and enabled to do good. Through the new
life which Christ has bestowed on us, we can recognize one another as brothers
and sisters, despite every difference of language, nationality and culture. In
a word, by sharing in the one bread and the one cup, we come to realize that we
are "God's family" and that together we can make our own effective
contribution to building a world based on the values of justice, freedom and
peace.[1]
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