Friday, March 16

Read It:
One of the scribes came to Jesus and asked him,
"Which is the first of all the commandments?"
Jesus replied, "The first is this:
Hear, O Israel!
The Lord our God is Lord alone!
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,
with all your soul,
with all your mind,
and with all your strength.
The second is this:
You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
There is no other commandment greater than these."
The scribe said to him, "Well said, teacher.
You are right in saying,
He is One and there is no other than he.
And to love him with all your heart,
with all your understanding,
with all your strength,
and to love your neighbor as yourself
is worth more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices."
And when Jesus saw that he answered with understanding,
he said to him,
"You are not far from the Kingdom of God."
And no one dared to ask him any more questions.

Reflect on It: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind and with all your strength". When we love the Lord like this, there really isn't any other way that we could be living with out him. We are called to Love God like this. One of the four Eucharistic prayers for mass says: "in you we live and move and have our being". I love this line of the Eucharistic prayer and I think today's Gospel lends itself well to the this prayer. If we love the Lord with our whole heart, mind, soul and strength, then in him, we will live and move and have our being. Without Christ, we can do nothing.

Pray About It: Lord, help me to love with you everything that I am and everything that I have, with my whole heart.

Live It! Challenge: Today, do something kind of your parent or a sibling.