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in our Gospel today Jesus tells the crowd that the Son of Man will
welcome the righteous into the kingdom, saying: "For I was hungry and
you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and
you welcomed me, naked and you clothed me, ill and you cared for me, in
prison and you visited me." Puzzled, the righteous will ask when they
did this, and he will reply, "Whatever you did for one of these least
brothers of mine, you did for me."</b></span></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">This
is a powerful
evocation of Jesus’ teaching about the mutuality of our love for God and
neighbor</span></b></b></b></span></b><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-weight:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-size:18px;font-style:normal;text-align:start"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">. <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>The absolute love for God is not in competition with a
radical commitment to love our fellow human beings, precisely because
God is not one being among many, but the very ground of our existence.</b></span></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">Someone
who operated very much in the spirit of this teaching was <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Saint Teresa
of Calcutta. </b></span>A writer was once conversing with her, searching out <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>the
sources of her spirituality and mission</b>.</span> At the end of their long talk,
she asked him to spread his hand out on the table. Touching his fingers
one by one as she spoke the words,
she said,<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"> </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)">"You did it to me."</span><br><br> </b></span></span></b></b></b></span></b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b><span style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-size:18px;font-style:normal;text-align:start"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px"><span style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">Reflect</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-weight:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-size:18px;font-style:normal;text-align:start"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><span style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">: Identify a needy person in your life, whether that need is<br> a physical or spiritual one. What can you do in the next week for that<br> person? </span></span></span></span><br></span></span></b></span></div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>
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