Thursday, June 6, 2024
2 Tm 2:8-15; Mk 12:28-34
In today’s Gospel, we find Jesus teaching on love.
The love of God becomes the first of all commandments in Jesus’ teaching.
The way Jesus constructs his answer shows that the love of neighbor results from the primary commandment of the love of God. In other words, the love of neighbor is the natural corollary of the love of God.
In a way, Jesus makes loving God a precondition for loving neighbors because one who loves the Creator will be drawn toward His Creation. What begins with the former ends with the latter.
Moreover, by addressing a question that is moral in content, Jesus reinstates religion (Love of God) as the basis for the flourishing of the human community (Love of Neighbor). The life of Jesus offered an example of this truth.
Rooted in the love of his Father, Jesus could extend the same to needy humanity.
Without God, a society can lose its bearing.
In Jesus’ teaching, the moral goodness of human society finds its origin in God.
Fr. Dhinakaran Savariyar
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