The 7th Sunday makes it very clear that we are called to holiness.
1st Reading: Be holy, for I, the LORD, your God, am holy.
and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
2nd Reading: Do you not know that you are the temple of God,
and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
Gospel: be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.
In the Gospel Jesus reminds us that God's is poured forth on the good and the wicked, and that our love is supposed to be the same as God's. God does not ask us to do something that is impossible. Yes, it is beyond our nature, especially our fallen nature. But this holiness is not beyond God's grace, which is God's life within us.
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