In today’s Gospel – Matthew 10:37-42 – we hear some of the hard sayings of Jesus. Already in the Sermon on the Mount we have heard Jesus say: “Unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 5:20). He challenges his listeners to ask the question: “Where is your morality grounded? Is it primarily a matter of conforming to cultural, social and religious customs and expectations? Is it a matter of simply doing what you, as an individual, happen to think at the time is right?”
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