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Gospel Reflection for The 25th day of October in the year of Our Lord, 2026 · The Uncensored Catholic

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  Speaker 1: Gospel reflection for the 25th day of October in the
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  Speaker 1: year of our Lord, 2026. This comes from the Gospel
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  Speaker 1: of Matthew, chapter 22, verses 34 through 40. But the Pharisees,
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  Speaker 1: hearing that he had silenced the Sadducees, came together, and
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  Speaker 1: one of them, a doctor of the law, asking him,
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  Speaker 1: tempting him, Master, which is the greatest commandment in the law?
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said to him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy
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  Speaker 1: God with thy whole heart, with thy whole soul, and
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  Speaker 1: with thy whole mind. This is the greatest and the
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  Speaker 1: first commandment. And the second is like to this, Thou
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  Speaker 1: shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments
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  Speaker 1: dependeth the whole law and the prophets. Now imagine for
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  Speaker 1: a moment if our religion was not necessarily taught to
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  Speaker 1: us or ministered to us by priests, monks, nuns, deacons, teachers, etc.
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  Speaker 1: What if our religious officials were attorneys, judges, politicians, police officers,
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  Speaker 1: and bureaucrats? Essentially this was the case in the earthly world.
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  Speaker 1: I am of our Lord. The law had come to
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  Speaker 1: be worshipped as an end to itself rather than a
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  Speaker 1: system of instruction that helped one worship God. Imagine for
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  Speaker 1: a moment that instead of going to Mass you had
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  Speaker 1: to go to the DMV and some state employee examined
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  Speaker 1: you to make sure you were following every regulation and
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  Speaker 1: penalized you if you did not. What Jesus tells us
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  Speaker 1: is that his yoke is light. Consider the words of
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  Speaker 1: today's gospel. It is certainly not easy to love your
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  Speaker 1: neighbors yourself and to love God with all of your heart.
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  Speaker 1: But that is what every letter of the law meant
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  Speaker 1: to accomplish. To love God means to keep his commandments,
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  Speaker 1: which is not easy. To love your neighbor means charity
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  Speaker 1: and compassion, self-sacrifice and service. Perhaps that's harder still, but
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  Speaker 1: it is doable. It is possible for every man, woman,
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  Speaker 1: and child, regardless of intelligence, education, economic or social status,
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  Speaker 1: to do this very thing. Often it is far more
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  Speaker 1: easy for the poor and the humble and the simple.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus brought an end to Torah law and temple worship.
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  Speaker 1: No longer did God have to be worshipped in one
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  Speaker 1: place and in a legalistic manner. The Christian would not
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  Speaker 1: be a slave to the law, but would be free
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  Speaker 1: as an heir. But with that freedom comes great responsibility.
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  Speaker 1: Alright y'all, have a great Sunday. Go to Mass and
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  Speaker 1: I will talk to you tomorrow.