i will be good though my body be broken
i will be good though my body be broken The Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew the 5th chapter! Today’s Gospel is probably as popular as it is unbelievable … And that’s the problem isn’t it? We imagine we’re so familiar with these sayings that we skip right along. “Oh, I love this part,” we say, while putting on a smile and tuning out. Before we do that, though, let me ask us to do something: Try and imagine we hadn’t heard these words before . Better yet, though, imagine that as we’re hearing these words for the first time, we’re one of those who Jesus called to follow him, or maybe someone from the crowd with a disease eavesdropping on this message Jesus gives… Let’s try hearing today’s Gospel this way, because when we do that, these familiar sayings become appropriately shocking. To help us really hear today’s gospel I am going to read it again, although I am going to read it from another translation; for those of you who go to the Bible S...