The texts from the Roman Catholic Lectionary offer an alternate lifestyle and encourage us to maintain the bond of peace within the Body of Christ. The calling of Matthew in the Gospel is a sign to the religious orthodoxy of Jesus day that the traditional shunning of those considered sinners is not the understanding of the Divine that Jesus is going to support. The officials who would add this public demonstration to the list of offenses being committed by Jesus would eventually succeed in making the case to the Roman authorities that He be crucified. The response of the followers of Jesus to the real attempts to break the peace must be to forgive, forget and forge on.
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