{"id":200582,"date":"2026-06-15T00:01:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T04:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/?p=200582&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=200582"},"modified":"2026-06-13T21:41:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T01:41:20","slug":"june-15-2026-turning-the-other-cheek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/june-15-2026-turning-the-other-cheek\/","title":{"rendered":"June 15, 2026 &#8211; Turning the Other Cheek?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"200582\" class=\"elementor elementor-200582\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-365eb3cf e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"365eb3cf\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6ebf85b elementor-icon-list--layout-traditional elementor-list-item-link-full_width elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-list\" data-id=\"6ebf85b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-list.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"elementor-icon-list-items\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"elementor-icon-list-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/bible.usccb.org\/daily-bible-reading\" target=\"_blank\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-icon-list-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-caret-right\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-icon-list-text\">Today's Bible Readings from the USCCB<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"elementor-icon-list-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/the-order-of-the-mass\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-icon-list-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-caret-right\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-icon-list-text\">The Order of the Mass<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-34b6d080 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"34b6d080\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><iframe class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/player.rss.com\/rcdailymeditations\/2913224?theme=light&amp;v=2\" title=\"June 15, 2026 - Turning the Other Cheek?\"  width=\"100%\" height=\"202px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rss.com\/podcasts\/rcdailymeditations\/2913224\/\">June 15, 2026 &#8211; Turning the Other Cheek? | RSS.com<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Monday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time<\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Matthew 5:38-42<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jesus said to his disciples: \u201cYou have heard that it was said, \u2018<em>An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth<\/em>.\u2019 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. If anyone wants to go to law with you over your tunic, hand him your cloak as well. Should anyone press you into service for one mile, go with him for two miles. Give to the one who asks of you, and do not turn your back on one who wants to borrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Opening Prayer:<\/strong> You have given me the gift of another day, Lord. I want to live it to the full! I want to give you glory by living my life abundantly! Teach me to pour my faith and my love into everything I do. Teach me to find you and your love in all the duties, encounters, and experiences of this day. I know you are always with me, thinking of me, leading and guiding me. As I come before you in prayer today, I humbly ask you to teach me how to see your presence and walk with you always and everywhere\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Encountering Christ:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Seeing Others as Christ Does:<\/strong> These words of Our Lord are so familiar to us. Maybe too familiar. \u201c<em>Turn the other cheek; go the extra mile; give to the one who asks\u2026<\/em>\u201d These are behaviors that flow from a way of seeing other people. Our fallen human nature sees other people as competitors, threats, obstacles, tools. And so we are always ready to defend, to take advantage, to outsmart. Jesus is inviting us to adopt a different perspective. He wants us to drop our shields and take off our masks. He wants us to discover the dignity and the worth of other people, regardless of their flaws and sins. He wants us to learn to see others as he sees them\u2014as children of God and saints in the making. When we see others in that way, we unleash new strength in our own hearts. We are able to <em>choose<\/em> how we respond to insults (being struck on the right cheek implied a back-handed slap, the sign of an insult in Israel at the time of Jesus) and injustices (Roman soldiers could legally conscript local citizens to carry their loads for a mile at a time in Roman-occupied Israel). We can look past the brokenness of this world and the ugliness of our fallen nature to see the face of a brother even in strangers and opponents. This is Christ\u2019s invitation. He believes in us so much that he actually invites and equips us to follow his own example: \u201cWhile we were still sinners Christ died for us\u201d (Rom 5:8). As we learn to do this, to live our relations with other people on the level of the deeper truth of our common human nature and Christian vocation, we will also learn what it really means to be blessed: \u201cBlessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy\u201d (Mt 5:7).\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Being Freed from a Subtle Slavery: <\/strong>Some people have interpreted Christ\u2019s injunction to \u201coffer no resistance to evil\u201d in a purely social way. This interpretation claims that we should never fight for what is true, good, and just. But that simply can\u2019t be what Jesus really means. After all, Jesus also declared, \u201cBlessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied\u201d (Mt 5:6). Righteousness includes justice. Righteousness includes defending the defenseless against unjust attacks and exploitation. Righteousness includes pursuing and defending the common good by working for just laws, development, and peace. When Jesus invites us to \u201coffer no resistance to evil,\u201d he is not inviting us to ignore the forces of evil and to enable injustice. Rather, he is inviting us to master our self-righteous tendency to lash out at those who insult us on a person-to-person level. He is inviting us to leave behind the prisons of resentment and anger that we can be trapped in when people treat us unfairly. It is so easy to become a slave to anger in our personal lives. Jesus doesn\u2019t want us to be a slave to anything. He wants us to learn to experience the \u201cglorious freedom of the children of God\u201d (Rom 8:21). Have I experienced that? Would I like to experience it? Learning to curb our instinctual defensiveness and to understand and accept others even when they may not seem to deserve it\u2014this can break the cycle of vengeance and build bridges of redemption. \u201cBlessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God\u201d (Mt 5:9).\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ahab and Jezebel:<\/strong> King Ahab and his queen, Jezebel, used lies and subterfuge to murder an innocent citizen, Naboth, and steal his family vineyard. That story from 1 Kings 21 vividly illustrates the destructive repercussions of selfishness. When we are self-centered, we tend to see other people as obstacles or tools in relation to whatever we want. Ahab was so self-centered that he became depressed when he couldn\u2019t convince Naboth to sell him his family\u2019s ancestral heritage. Though a grown man, his spirit was so self-absorbed that he behaved like a spoiled child when his whims weren\u2019t heeded. Jezebel was even more self-absorbed. She not only coveted wealth and comfort, as Ahab did, but she reveled in the accumulation and exercise of power. For her, Naboth\u2019s integrity and honor were a challenge. Was he strong enough to resist her machinations? She engaged the machinery of corruption and had him falsely accused and executed. She aggrandized herself and experienced a twisted pleasure by showing how powerful she was, regardless of the human and moral wreckage she left in her wake. We are all Ahab and Jezebel. We are all tempted to assert ourselves at the expense of others. Jesus is trying to convince us to follow a different path, a truer and more fulfilling path. When we treat other people\u2014all other people\u2014as the brothers and sisters that they truly are in God\u2019s eyes, the world itself is transformed, and we become beacons of light and life in this world rather than agents of darkness and destruction.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Conversing with Christ: <\/strong>You call me to such a high standard, Lord. You invite me to give, to lend, to go the extra mile, to forgive, to return good for evil\u2026 This is how you lived. This is how you redeemed the world and gave us hope for reconciliation with God and for eternal life. This is how I am meant to live. I want to follow your call; I want to learn to see others\u2014all others\u2014as you see them. I want to learn to live with the strength and freedom that come from being anchored in this deeper truth. But it is not easy! I need your help, Lord. Grant me your grace, so that I may learn to be generous and good always and everywhere, not just when I feel like it. 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