Whoever is angry with his brother

“But I say to you, whoever is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment, and whoever says to his brother, Raqa, will be answerable to the Sanhedrin, and whoever says, ‘You fool,’ will be liable to fiery Gehenna.” (MT 5: 22)

Anger is the motive behind murder, as indicated by the insulting epithets that may lead to it. But the beginning of these epithets starts in our inner dialog. We start blaming the other person; our demands grow, and our mistaken patterns of interpretation in our inner dialog put us in danger: “whoever is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment.”

“I give you a new commandment: love one another as I have loved you.” (Gospel Acclamation)