PRI Reflections on Scripture | Friday of the 20th Week in Ordinary Time

Finding God In Our Hearts with Msgr. Don Fischer · Aug 21, 2026 · 6m

Original Post Date: August 23, 2024

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Gospel

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.”

Reflection

The Pharisees were…