2. “But I say to you, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who persecute and calumniate you, so that you may be children of Your Father in Heaven, who makes His sun to rise on the good and the evil, and sends rain on the just and the unjust” (Mt 5:44-45).
The Father desires to Gift each person with His Eternal Son and the refreshing Reign of His Holy Spirit. Our supernatural lives depend on our opening to receive these Gifts, just as our natural lives depend on the sun and the rain. If we who have received the Son and the Spirit through our Baptism refuse to love our enemies, then we cut ourselves off from Our Father Who is Love (1 Jn 4:8), and we close the Door of Love that the Father wanted to open to our enemies. We hold the key to this Door which opens through the astonishment which occurs when our enemies realize that we love them no matter what they do to us.
