tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7853204965986587589.post5352709967289173726..comments2024-03-17T22:48:00.427+08:00Comments on Reflections and Ruminations: When terror is at our door, how is Jesus the answer?Fr Luke Fonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03079016104331055895noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7853204965986587589.post-74539557508436851172015-11-20T00:05:31.327+08:002015-11-20T00:05:31.327+08:00“Jesus’ teaching of loving our enemies is one of t...“Jesus’ teaching of loving our enemies is one of the hardest things to accept and practice, but it is really the only true response that is radical.”<br /><br />Your mention about Gandhi reminded me that not only was he an ardent admirer of Jesus but he also studied Jesus and his teachings well. So Gandhi’s resistance movement of non-violence could very well have been inspired by Our Lord’s teachings, his life and death.<br /><br /> He would have recognized that the way of Christ is actually active engagement and not as one would generally presume – a passive form of least resistance or like you said – being a door-mat. It is in fact a new way, a radical way of response to evil or violence. This must have struck him as a beautiful answer to turn the tables on his colonial aggressors - instead of keeping evil in circulation.<br /><br />As disciples of Christ, how can we fail to see this truth? For if we believe that the nature of the one true God we worship is Love, how then can Love contradict itself by advocating revenge?<br /><br />So though I cannot as yet fully understand Christ’s radical way of loving......especially our enemies.....I would rather cling to this than the old adage of “an eye for an eye” and spiral into total blindness. Whereas, I believe that love restores and heals.......ultimately!<br /><br />God bless u, Fr.<br /><br />tessa<br /><br />Tessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04211998984286520369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7853204965986587589.post-58415691903193905982015-11-19T16:27:30.692+08:002015-11-19T16:27:30.692+08:00Pray frLuke. In matters that I can do nothing abo...Pray frLuke. In matters that I can do nothing about it, I will always offer it up to the Lord and know that He will fix it; how & when I do not know, but He will :)<br /><br />wtAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com