Sunday Meditation: The Greatest Commandment

We see again this Sunday the Pharisees testing Jesus.  Jesus again passes the test.

 

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."

~Mt 22:34-40

Jesus shows His command of the scriptures by pulling two commandments from different parts of the Torah—Deuteronomy 6:5 and Leviticus 19:18—and combining them into one greatest commandment.  This week I have found a new voice in providing an explanation of the readings and giving us an application for our lives, Catholic Homilies and Reflections. 

 

That is amazingly thorough.  The meditation I think should be on the relationship between the two.

Meditation: "The second is like it."