Reflections on Sunday’s Mass: July 11, 2010
This Sunday is the 15th Sunday Ordinary Time. We can read these three scripture selections as a meditation on our deepest call—to love as image and likeness of God. We Christians are taught that the divine command to love is embedded within the human heart—it is a law that is an intrinsic part of our nature. In Deuteronomy, Moses insists that the divine law is “not too mysterious and remote for you… (but) already in your mouths and in your hearts—you have only to carry it out.”
Jesus’ response to the scholar of the law illustrates this truth, through his parable… some harden their hearts to the clear and simple claims of love, while others respond to the movement of love within.
In quoting an early Christian hymn to the identity of Jesus, Paul reminds us that the person of Jesus is the manifestation of that love that has created all things, and has now brought peace and reconciliation to all creation.
Readings for the day:
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