Thursday, June 19, 2025
Liturgical Season: 
Special Significance: 
Mar Judah Thadaeus, the Apostle

Heb 10:5-10

5For this reason, when he came into the world, he said:*

“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,d

but a body you prepared for me;

6holocausts and sin offerings you took no delight in.

7Then I said, ‘As is written of me in the scroll,

Behold, I come to do your will, O God.’”

8First he says, “Sacrifices and offerings, holocausts and sin offerings,* you neither desired nor delighted in.” These are offered according to the law.e 9Then he says, “Behold, I come to do your will.” He takes away the first to establish the second.f 10By this “will,” we have been consecrated through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.g

Mt 5:38-44

Teaching About Retaliation. 38* “You have heard that it was said,x ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ 39y But I say to you, offer no resistance to one who is evil. When someone strikes you on [your] right cheek, turn the other one to him as well. 40If anyone wants to go to law with you over your tunic, hand him your cloak as well. 41Should anyone press you into service for one mile,* go with him for two miles.z 42Give to the one who asks of you, and do not turn your back on one who wants to borrow.a

Love of Enemies.* 43b “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’c 44But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you,