Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share "The Lord our God is Lord alone!" | Friday of the Third Week of Lent
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
"The Lord our God is Lord alone!" | Friday of the Third Week of Lent
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark
One of the scribes came to Jesus and asked him, “Which is the first of all the commandments?” Jesus replied, “The first is this: Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is Lord alone! You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. The second is this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these.”
In today’s Gospel, a scribe asks Jesus which is the first or greatest of the commandments. First among them, part of Mosaic law embodied in the Shema, or the Jewish profession of faith, is to love God above all else. The Shema was a daily prayer for ancient Israelites, still recited today by Jewish people. And then Jesus says, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” There is no separating these two great commandments to love. As in the Lord’s Prayer, to forgive is to know God’s forgiveness; to love others is to experience the love of God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. Those others God puts before us daily—whether strangers, friends, or family—are a humbling reminder of how demanding it is to put God first and love others.
God, help me understand that in forgiving others, I commend them to you and learn to love them. Without your grace, Lord, it is a weak and faltering love, tending toward collapse. With the first reading from Hosea, I see you present your mercy as a model: “I will heal their defection, says the LORD, I will love them freely; for my wrath is turned away from them.” How do I dare to say that I will love you with everything I have? Give me the grace, Lord, to obey your two great commandments.
From the Prayer after Communion: “May your strength be at work in us, O Lord, pervading our minds and bodies, that what we have received by participating in this Sacrament may bring us the fullness of redemption. Through Christ our Lord.”
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Readings
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@lectiodiv/videos
Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/lectio-divina-daily-reflections/id1637258440
Web: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com
Support this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=85589341
View all episodes
By Lectio Divina Daily
4.5
88 ratings
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark
One of the scribes came to Jesus and asked him, “Which is the first of all the commandments?” Jesus replied, “The first is this: Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is Lord alone! You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. The second is this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these.”
In today’s Gospel, a scribe asks Jesus which is the first or greatest of the commandments. First among them, part of Mosaic law embodied in the Shema, or the Jewish profession of faith, is to love God above all else. The Shema was a daily prayer for ancient Israelites, still recited today by Jewish people. And then Jesus says, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” There is no separating these two great commandments to love. As in the Lord’s Prayer, to forgive is to know God’s forgiveness; to love others is to experience the love of God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. Those others God puts before us daily—whether strangers, friends, or family—are a humbling reminder of how demanding it is to put God first and love others.
God, help me understand that in forgiving others, I commend them to you and learn to love them. Without your grace, Lord, it is a weak and faltering love, tending toward collapse. With the first reading from Hosea, I see you present your mercy as a model: “I will heal their defection, says the LORD, I will love them freely; for my wrath is turned away from them.” How do I dare to say that I will love you with everything I have? Give me the grace, Lord, to obey your two great commandments.
From the Prayer after Communion: “May your strength be at work in us, O Lord, pervading our minds and bodies, that what we have received by participating in this Sacrament may bring us the fullness of redemption. Through Christ our Lord.”
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Readings
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@lectiodiv/videos
Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/lectio-divina-daily-reflections/id1637258440
Web: https://lectiodiv.wordpress.com
Support this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=85589341
More shows like Lectio Div Catholic Gospel
View all
Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz
6,214 Listeners
Pints With Aquinas
6,738 Listeners
Letters From Home
464 Listeners
Abiding Together
4,170 Listeners
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
7,693 Listeners
All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri
1,361 Listeners
Catholic Daily Reflections
550 Listeners
Godsplaining
1,277 Listeners
Let Love
609 Listeners
The Megyn Kelly Show
40,468 Listeners
The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
62,269 Listeners
The Liturgy of the Hours: Sing the Hours
817 Listeners
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
11,468 Listeners
The Saints
851 Listeners
The Rosary in a Year (with Fr. Mark-Mary Ames)
5,405 Listeners