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<table style="font-size:14px;min-width:100%;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" width="650" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><td id="m_-3424984916577236090m_-2608601440082155824gmail-m_6273356592336680032layout-row-margin58436" style="padding:5px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" valign="top"><table style="font-size:14px;min-width:100%;border-collapse:initial" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr id="m_-3424984916577236090m_-2608601440082155824gmail-m_6273356592336680032layout-row58436" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><td id="m_-3424984916577236090m_-2608601440082155824gmail-m_6273356592336680032layout-row-padding58436" style="padding:10px 30px 0px" valign="top"><table style="font-size:14px;min-width:100%" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td id="m_-3424984916577236090m_-2608601440082155824gmail-m_6273356592336680032text_div57604" style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;color:inherit;font-size:12px;font-weight:inherit;line-height:1.5;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:Arial" width="580" valign="top" align="left"><div style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5"> <div style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px"><b style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";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"><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"><div 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;text-align:start"><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">Friends, <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>in today’s Gospel Jesus sums up the laws of love. </b></span><br><br>
<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>It was a common practice in<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"> Jesus’ </span>time to ask a rabbi to identify <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">the
central precept </span>of <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">the Law</span></b></span>. <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>Thus Jesus is asked, "Which is the first of
all the commandments?" He gave his famous answer: "‘You shall love the
Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your
mind, and with all your strength.’</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>The second is this: ‘You shall love
your neighbor as yourself.’" <br></b></span><br> All of <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>religion is finally about
awakening the deepest desire of the heart and directing it toward God</b></span>;
it is about the ordering of love toward that which is most worthy of
love. But<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><u><b> this love of God</b></u></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>carries, <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">Jesus </span>says</b><b>, as a necessary
implication</b></span>, <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>compassion for <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">one’s fellow human beings</span>. </b></span><br><br> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Why are
the two
commandments so tightly linked?</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"> Because of who Jesus is. Christ is not
</span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span><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(217,234,211)"><b>simply a human being, </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>and he is not<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"> </span></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>simply</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>God;</b><b> rather, <u>he is the
God-man, </u></b><u><b>the one in whose person divinity and <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">humanity</span> meet</b></u></span><u>.</u><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b> Therefore,</b></span>
<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">it is impossible</span> to love him as God <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">without </span>loving <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">the humanity that </span>he
has embraced.<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"> </span></b><u><b>The greatest commandment is, therefore, an indirect
Christology. <br></b></u></span><br><i style="margin:0px;outline:currentcolor none medium;padding:0px">Reflect: </i>How does the truth that humanity and divinity meet in Jesus affect your understanding of humanity? Of divinity? </span></b></b></b><br></span></b></div><div 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;text-align:start"><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">
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Uram, adj türelmet,<br>
Hogy elfogadjam amin nem tudok változtatni,<br>
Adj bátorságot, hogy megváltoztassam,<br>
Amit lehet, és adj bölcsességet,<br>
Hogy a kettő között különbséget tudjak tenni.<br></b></span>
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b><br>
Uram,
tégy engem békéd eszközévé, <br>
hogy szeressek ott, ahol gyűlölnek, <br>
hogy
megbocsássak ott, ahol megbántanak, <br>
hogy összekössek, ahol széthúzás
van, <br>
hogy reménységet keltsek, ahol kétségbeesés kínoz, <br>
hogy fényt
gyújtsak, ahol sötétség uralkodik, <br>
hogy örömet hozzak oda, ahol gond
tanyázik. <br></b></span>
</p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b>
</b></span><p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b>Ó Uram, segíts meg, hogy törekedjem, <br>
nem arra, hogy
megvigasztaljanak, hanem hogy én vigasztaljak, <br>
nem arra, hogy
megértsenek, hanem arra, hogy én megértsek, <br>
nem arra, hogy szeressenek,
hanem hogy én szeressek. <br></b></span>
</p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b>
</b></span><p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b>Mert aki így ad, az kapni fog, <br>
aki elveszíti
magát, az talál, <br>
aki megbocsát, annak megbocsátanak, <br>
aki meghal, az
fölébred az örök életre.<br>
Amen. (Assissi Szt. Ferenc)</b></span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b><br></b></span></p>
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