Bulletin Shorts for the Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time

Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time – 31 October 2021

Deuteronomy 6:2-6.  Psalm 18:2-3, 3-4, 47, 51.  Hebrews 7:23-28.  Mark12:28b-34.

What Matters the Most to God?  The answer is simple:  love God and love your neighbor as yourself.  The practice is harder.  Recall the Good Samaritan who cares for the beaten man on the roadside (Luke 10:29-37).  A neighbor is not just a friend or relative or part of the tribe.  A neighbor is anyone.  We are to love everyone.  That kind of loving keeps us near the Kingdom of God.

• What of my actions show that I am loving God?
• What of my actions show that I am loving myself?
• What of my actions show that I am loving my neighbor, that is, everyone?

This post was first published on the worship pages of the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois website.
Sunday Prayer Shaping Life and Belief
Written by Eliot Kapitan.

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