https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/102520.cfm
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The LORD lives and blessed be my rock!
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Todays's Gospel addresses Jesus' menacing interrogation by the Pharisees determined to trip him up over the matter of the Laws of Moses that for most Jews governed their daily life. In their attempt to lead Jesus to make a misstep the Pharisees were surprised when Jesus replied that the two greatest commandments of God, per the tablets handed to Moses by God, invites all the faithful to love God and love their neighbour as they would wish to be loved.
In other words the two greatest commandments are interwoven to reflect the awareness that to be able to love God, we must also love our neighbour.
The Apostle Luke elaborates with very few words: And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them ~ Luke 6:31
Judgement of others is a pharisaical mindset that can be easily discovered masquerading behind the pronouncements of the religious conservative, and the radicalised reformer insisting that they know best when insisting that they are the fountain of divine truth.
Until his Damascus Road enlightenment event Paul of Tarsus believed that serving the Laws of Moses was the one and only way to obey God. Paul's conversion enabled him to understand that The Saviour lives within the life of every human person without exception.
15 “If you love me, keep my commands. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— 17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him.
But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. ~ John 14
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