“You must therefore be perfect just as your heavenly Father is perfect.” Mt 5:48
Dachau was the first Nazi concentration camp to be opened. It was basically a forced labour camp. Today it is open to the public. In this memorial site there are different churches and also a synagogue that have been built. What impressed me most during my visit to the memorial site last summer was the Church of Reconciliation. The peculiarity of this church is that its structure has no right angles. The irregular shape is a symbolic protest against the orderly layout of the camp in which all the buildings are set in perfect array. As I was leaving the memorial site, I thought, an exaggerated sense of order could be a sign of neurosis. And it could be life-threatening.
In the gospel passage of today, as Jesus continues his ‘Sermon on the Mount,’ he reiterates, “You must […]