I’m going to start trying to make these Sunday Lectionary posts a little bit shorter, both so that I get more of my weekend back and also so more people read them!
30th Sunday in Ordinary Time: October 23rd, 2011
The Readings this week focus around the “vertical” and “horizontal” dimensions of our faith, how we love God and how we love our neighbour. This finds its simplest and clearest expression in today’s Gospel passage when Jesus is asked which is the greatest of all the commandments…
“Therefore the first commandment teaches every kind of godliness. For to love God with the whole heart is the cause of every good.
The second commandment includes the righteous acts we do toward other people. The first commandment prepares the way for the second and in turn is established by the second. For the person who is grounded in the love of God clearly also loves his neighbor in all things himself.
The kind of person who fulfills these two commandments experiences all the commandments.”
– St. Cyril of Alexandria, Early Church Father, 5th Century
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