'Love your enemies'

Love your enemies, Jesus says.  

Friends, there is no difficulty in understanding what Jesus means here, because He spells it out for us: to love your enemies means to do good to those who hate you, to bless those who curse you, and so on.

Yet while our Lord’s words are not difficult to understand, they are very difficult to put into action. This remarkable article about events of this past year will inspire you: it really is possible and desirable to love one's enemies - and that love can change the world.

Patrick Tomassi, 'Behind the Black Umbrellas: Debating Violence with Portland’s Antifa and the Proud Boys,' Plough Quarterly 27: The Violence of Love (17 March 2021).