Matthew 22:36-40
Two Greatest Commandments
36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
When Jesus tells us that the Greatest Commandment is to love God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and to love our neighbor as we would ourselves we are forever connected us to God and to our neighbors...Their is a relationship between ourselves, our Father in Heaven, and to our neighbors...
This Great Commandment reminds us that we have a a shared responsibility for loving our neighbors, as well as God, and that being good and decent are necessary for there to be a harmony in this world...Without this harmony and love for God and neighbor, we have a mockery of morality, the Truth, goodness, and our faith...Life then becomes corroded and not an abundant life without God and His Son...
Pope Francis tells us that: “We must regain the conviction that we need one another, that we have a shared responsibility for others and the world, and that being good and decent are worth it...We have had enough of immorality and the mockery of ethics, goodness, faith and honesty...It is time to acknowledge that light-hearted superficiality has done us no good...When the foundations of social life are corroded, what ensues are battles over conflicting interests, new forms of violence and brutality, and obstacles to the growth of a genuine culture of care for the environment.”...