19 June 2024 - Wednesday of the 11th even-numbered week
2Ki 2:1,6-14; Matt 6:1-6. 16-18
Homily
In what we call the Sermon on the Mount, that is, the long discourse with which Jesus begins his preaching in Matthew's Gospel, he first establishes, in the series of beatitudes, the fundamental charter of the new world – that is, the Kingdom of Heaven - that he wants to establish. Then Jesus explains that he has not come to abrogate the Law but to bring it to its fullness, and he concludes: "unless your righteousness or justice exceeds that of the Scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven".