with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind and with all your strength. And after this comes a second commandment:
You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these two.” The teacher of the law said to him,
“Well spoken, Master; you are right when you say that he is one, and there is no other besides him.
To love him with all our heart, with all our understanding and with all our strength, and to love our neighbor
as ourselves is moreimportant than any burnt offering or sacrifice.”
Jesus approved this answer and said, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And after that, no one dared to ask him any more questions.
REFLECTION:
What characterizes our life? What is it that moves us every day? The evangelist Mark allows us to hear right from Jesus
the center of the Gospel which ought to be the center of our lives.God created us for love. He made sure that everything in us
and our whole being is oriented in love. God planned that we were born and cared for by a mother and we would grow and reach maturity
as a person in a fundamental relationship of love within the family. We are to grow in love in order to be able to live in love.
This gospel passage reminds us that the basis of our life in God and of our following of the Lord is love, a love that is
not just a feeling that wavers every now and then but a commitment that remains whatever the circumstances of life may be.
The only way to grow in love is to let ourselves be loved by God, to remember and reflect on his goodness every day
and to allow his love and mercy to move us to love. A person who feels loved cannot but love in return. A true follower of Christ lives a loving life.
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