God's Will: Loving All People May Be Hard to Do, But We are Called to Love Everyone!
Even priests have a hard time loving all their parishioners. Many people have a hard time loving all. So many today are filled with so much hate, rage, and even derangement toward others. It is very hard to understand. I was telling a colleague the other day about this, our priest last week was saying how our world is filled with so much hate and anger, it does seem to be true. We felt it from our own old priest. I have seen many people be so filled with so much hate, negativity, indifference, and anger even derangement syndrome. It is hard to understand it all, I was telling a colleague the other night when he called. I try to stay away from people who are really negative and anyone who spews a lot of hate, I do not understand why some people hate so much, even hating the opposite political party, people, your neighbors, etc. Hate is hate, none of it is acceptable. The readings this week remind us of this. We must love all people. None of us are perfect. We need to not be indifferent toward others, even if we do not agree with them politically. I know many may not like me, since I do not agree with abortion or the death penalty, or that I like law and order and all to follow our laws, or to show manners and be gracious and kind, loving and respectful to others. I always try to be, many today are so indifferent or so full of hate, for any reason, hate just is not acceptable. The mass and Bible readings this week remind us of this. God is loving and compassionate to us, he hears us and loves us so much. He even came in human form as Jesus and died for our sins on a cross for us. I love you, Lord, my strength! We must remember this for God and all people here on this Earth School. We cannot go on living with hate, anger, negativity, and be deranged. It is not healthy for a society, for all of our laws and society as a whole need this as the readings say this week. If we serve the one true living God, Jesus Christ, we need to remember He wants us to love all people, like it says in Matthew this week. In John it says, "Whoever loves me will keep my word, says the Lord, and my Father will love him and we will come to him." We need to love and honor God, and also we shall love our neighbor as ourself. The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments!
Exodus 22:20-26
Thus says the LORD:
"You shall not molest or oppress an alien,
for you were once aliens yourselves in the land of Egypt.
You shall not wrong any widow or orphan.
If ever you wrong them and they cry out to me,
I will surely hear their cry.
My wrath will flare up, and I will kill you with the sword;
then your own wives will be widows, and your children orphans.
"If you lend money to one of your poor neighbors among my people,
you shall not act like an extortioner toward him
by demanding interest from him.
If you take your neighbor's cloak as a pledge,
you shall return it to him before sunset;
for this cloak of his is the only covering he has for his body.
What else has he to sleep in?
If he cries out to me, I will hear him; for I am compassionate."
Ps 18:2-3, 3-4, 47, 51
R. (2) I love you, Lord, my strength.
I love you, O LORD, my strength,
O LORD, my rock, my fortress, my deliverer.
R. I love you, Lord, my strength.
My God, my rock of refuge,
my shield, the horn of my salvation, my stronghold!
Praised be the LORD, I exclaim,
and I am safe from my enemies.
R. I love you, Lord, my strength.
The LORD lives and blessed be my rock!
Extolled be God my savior.
You who gave great victories to your king
and showed kindness to your anointed.
R. I love you, Lord, my strength.
1 Thessalonians 1:5c-10
Brothers and sisters:
You know what sort of people we were among you for your sake.
And you became imitators of us and of the Lord,
receiving the word in great affliction, with joy from the Holy Spirit,
so that you became a model for all the believers
in Macedonia and in Achaia.
For from you the word of the Lord has sounded forth
not only in Macedonia and in Achaia,
but in every place your faith in God has gone forth,
so that we have no need to say anything.
For they themselves openly declare about us
what sort of reception we had among you,
and how you turned to God from idols
to serve the living and true God
and to await his Son from heaven,
whom he raised from the dead,
Jesus, who delivers us from the coming wrath.
John 14:23
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Whoever loves me will keep my word, says the Lord,
and my Father will love him and we will come to him.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Matthew 22:34-40
When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees,
they gathered together, and one of them,
a scholar of the law tested him by asking,
"Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?"
He said to him,
"You shall love the Lord, your God,
with all your heart,
with all your soul,
and with all your mind.
This is the greatest and the first commandment.
The second is like it:
You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments."
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