Miguel Ángel Fuentes – Maturity According to Jesus Christ

In this book, Fr. Fuentes tries to present the Sermon
on the Mount from the particular perspective of the
“notion” of the mature—that is, perfect—person in
Jesus’ mind. Our Lord has outlined the main features of
human maturity. It is an ideal that Jesus makes us look
at with eyes full of hope and a spirit willing to conquer.
This is what we must strive to become. If people were
to know and to put into practice the directives of Our
Lord, we can be sure that we would not have so many
problems of emotional or intellectual immaturity, and
that the psychic conflicts that this annoying modern life
has accustomed us—and desensitized us—to, would be
greatly lessened. Jesus speaks with authority because
He has it. That authority—to be understood in the topic
that we have studied here—is His because He Himself
is the mature Man par excellence. The image that He
transmits to us is a perfect image of Himself.