Remember:among the commands of the Lordnone is more difficult,and none more wondrous,than that one love ones enemies.(Augustine, Earr. in Ps 118, 3; PL 37, 1524)

Rev. Joseph A. Komonchak, professor emeritus of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America, is a retired priest of the Archdiocese of New York.

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