CẢM NGHIỆM SỐNG- REFLECTION -BRENDAN 30TH SUNDAY-A

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    Mo Nguyen
     
     
    Sat, Oct 24 at 12:45 AM
     
     

                    THIRTEEN SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR A

                                           25th OCTOBER 2020

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      THE GREATEST COMMANDMENT  

             REFLECTIONS ON THE GOSPEL (Matthew 22: 34-40)

                               THE GREATEST COMMANDMENT

    When faced with the question in today’s Gospel concerning which of the commandments of the law is the greatest, Jesus has no hesitation in uniting two commandments already found in the scriptures of Israel.

    The command to love God with all one’s heart and soul and mind comes from Deuteronomy (6: 4-5). It is a command that every Israelite is summoned to recite each morning on rising (the ‘Schema’ prayer). So the Christian tradition has inherited from Israel the truth that God is worthy of love, worship and dedication of life simply for God’s sake alone. Love is the supreme factor in the relationship that God desires to have with us.

    The second command, ‘to love one’s neighbour as oneself’, occurs in Leviticus 19:18. It is ‘like’ the first because it flows from the nature of Israel’s God, who has identified so intimately with the situation of human beings. To love God with all one’s heart and soul and mind is to love those whom God loves: one’s fellow human beings, especially the vulnerable and the poor.

    Down the ages there have been many interpretations as to what loving one’s neighbour as oneself might mean. Primarily it would seem to mean putting oneself – at least imaginatively – in the neighbour’s shoes and asking how I would like to be treated in their situation. Better still, perhaps, it means taking pains to find out from the neighbour what exactly their desire might be. All effectively works of charity and justice begin from a similar base: from com-passion (‘feeling with’) in the deepest sense of that term.

    Brendan Byrne, SJ

    Hillsong Kids Jr. - The Greatest Commandment (Crazy Noise):

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4WygilFuaI

     

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    Giới Răn Nào Trọng Nhất – Ca đoàn Ngôi Ba:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMVKiSH8h3k