Monday – 11 th Week in Ordinary Time Gospel – Matthew 5:38-42 Hit Me, Baby, One More Time Walking the Via Dolorosa, Jerusalem If we look back on our childhood, most of us will remember all the times we got into a fight, sometimes just verbal, sometimes out and out physical. Sometimes we won, sometimes we lost. Sometimes we came away bloodied and defeated; sometimes we gave as good as we got. Through it all, we probably forgot why we were fighting in the first place, only the fight itself. But we do remember that, at the start, we had a choice. We could either fight or run. That was it; or so we thought! In today’s Gospel, we realize there really is a third option! We hear the familiar words of Jesus to “turn the other cheek.” I always pictured this scene as the height of cowardice, to just stand there and take it, to do nothing. I saw this as utter passivity, cowardice. But it’s not! It is an act of de...