August 22 - Friday of the 20th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Ruth 1:1,3-6,14-16,22; Ps.146:2,5-10; Mt.22:34-40) "Wherever you go I will go, wherever you lodge I will lodge, your people shall be my people, and your God my God." How well our readings harmonize this day. Jesus speaks plainly to the keepers of the law the greatest commandments – total love of God and neighbor – and Ruth puts them into practice for our witness. And our psalm sings the praises of our great God of love, whose care for "the hungry" and "the strangers," "the fatherless and the widow," we are called to imitate. Alleluia, indeed. Ruth is a foreigner, from a land which follows…
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