6TH SUNDAY OF EPIPHANY

Life is often about picking our way through opposites - choices and decisions that surround every moment of every day: should I do this or that, choose this way or that way, and so on. Just as there are choices on either side, so there are opposing consequences ­blessings and curses, in the language of the first reading, happiness and woe in the lan­guage of the Gospel. In Saint Luke's version of the Beati­tudes, we see Jesus setting out very clearly the teaching that life is about choices, and that we must take control, and be responsi­ble for the life we choose, or even the condi­tions of life that we embrace or accept.

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