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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"><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">Friends,
in today’s Gospel <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>some Pharisees challenge Jesus to answer which
commandment of the Law is the greatest</b></span>.<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b> Jesus responds that every power,
every capacity in us must be given over to the love of God. </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>But what
exactly does it mean to </b></span></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:italic">love</span><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"> God? </span></b></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"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>St. Bernard of Clairvaux </b></span>is helpful here. He <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>said that the goal of the spiritual life is to love</b></span></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:italic"> </span></b></span><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>God
alone, for the sake of God alone</b></span>. Obviously, there are many things that
compete for the love of God alone—money, sex, power, pleasure. But what
Bernard saw is that even if God alone is the center of my life, I still
might not be truly loving him for his sake alone<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>. I might be using <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">him</span>.</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">He
makes a helpful little distinction. He says that<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b> a slave has a kind of
love for his master, but it is not <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">truly love,</span> for it is much more like
fear. </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>This can be very helpfully applied to the spiritual life.</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">Many
people who claim they </span>love God <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">really fear </span>him</b></span>. What might he do to me?
If I don’t do the right things, I will be punished<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">. </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">Such attitudes</span> <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">are a
long way from </span>love.</b></span></span></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></blockquote><div>
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b>Krisztus lelke, szentelj meg engem!<br>
Krisztus teste, üdvözíts engem!<br>
Krisztus vére, ihless meg engem!<br>
Krisztus oldalából kifolyó víz,<br>
moss tisztára engem!<br>
Krisztus kínszenvedése, erősíts meg engem!<br>
Ó, jóságos Jézus, hallgass meg engem!<br>
Szent sebeidbe rejts el engem!<br>
Ne engedd, hogy elszakadjak tőled!<br>
A gonosz ellenségtől oltalmazz engem!<br>
Halálom óráján hívj magadhoz engem!<br>
Add, hogy eljussak hozzád,<br>
és szentjeiddel dicsérjelek téged,<br>
mindörökkön-örökké.<br>
Ámen.
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