The Catholic Calendar for Friday, August 19, 2005
Friday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time
St. John Eudes, priest

Scripture from today's Liturgy of the Word:
Ruth 1:1, 3-6, 14-16, 22
Psalm 146:5-10
Matthew 22:34-40

A reflection on today's Sacred Scripture:

"Which Commandment in the law is the greatest. . ."

It is said that the whole of the law and prophets, the
entire revelation of the Old Testament, and much of
the meaning of the new is bound up in Jesus' response
to this question.

The greatest commandment is that which encompasses all
the others. Love. Love with all your heart, all your
soul, all your mind. Love your neighbor as yourself.
In this all of the law is fulfilled and the Spirit of
God is lived out.

It is for the truth of this law that Jesus spread out
His arms upon the cross and died.

And the hardest thing for us to understand is that the
greatest commandment is God Himself. When we are told
to love we are being told to be God to others--not in
a bossy, authoritative, destructive way, but in the
way that Jesus is brother, Lord and God to us.

This is the greatest of the commandments.

- JuandelaCruz

(http://floscarmeli.stblogs.org/)

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