Denver Newsroom, Aug 24, 2020 / 05:00 pm (CNA).-  

Most people do not expect the Gospel passage “When someone strikes you on your right cheek, turn the other one to him as well” to take on a literal meaning in their lives - much less in the middle of Mass.

But it did become literal for one reader during Sunday Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter & Paul in downtown Philadelphia.