The first reading of the Mass shows David fleeing from King Saul through the desert lands of Ziph.1 One night when the king was resting in the midst of his men, David approached the camp with his most faithful friend, Abishai. They saw Saul sleeping, lying in the middle of the circle of chariots, the spear driven into the ground by the headboard. Abner and the troop lay sleeping all around. Abishai said to David, "God has put the enemy in your hand. I will drive him into the ground with one blow; it will not need to be repeated. The death of the king was undoubtedly the short way to free himself at once from all dangers and to reach the throne; but David chose, for the second time2, the longer way, and preferred to spare Saul's life. David shows himself to us, on this and many other occasions, as a man of great soul, and with this spirit he was able to win first the admiration and then the friendship of his bitterest enemy, and of the people. Above all, he won the friendship of God.
The Gospel of the Mass3 also invites us to be magnanimous, to have a great heart, like that of Christ. It commands us to bless those who curse us, to pray for those who insult us, to do good without expecting anything in return, to be compassionate as God is compassionate, to forgive everyone, to be generous without calculation or measure. The Lord ends by telling us: give and it will be given to you; a good measure will be poured out to you, pressed down, filled, overflowing. And he warns us: with the same measure you measure, you will be measured.
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