3RD FRIDAY HOMILY OF LENT — YEAR A

3RD FRIDAY HOMILY OF LENT — YEAR A

HOMILY THEME: LOVE GOD, LOVE OTHERS

BY: Bishop Gerald M. Musa

You can’t love God with all your heart while giving your neighbor only half of it. Jesus teaches us how to see God in each person, and He tells us that we cannot love God enough if we fail to see His image in other people. Jesus summarized the whole Jewish law into the love of God and neighbor. He wanted His listeners to understand that it is not possible to love God sincerely without loving the people whom God has made in His image and likeness. St. John makes this point clear when he says, “Whoever does not love a brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen” (1 John 4:20).

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What makes the instruction of Jesus about love so unique is that He asks His followers not to discriminate against anyone, irrespective of religion, race, tribe, or social class. No one should be considered a second-class human person because he is of another religion or because he speaks a different language. No true religion should promote any form of discrimination. Piety, or the love of God, is empty when it cannot be demonstrated in the love of others who are different and whose ways of life appear strange. Jesus teaches us that our love of God is incomplete unless we love everyone and respect everyone because everyone is made in the image and likeness of God.

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