Study of the Readings
ed. by
Joyce Ann Zimmerman,
et al
• Words, Phrases
• To the point
• First Two Readings
• Experience
John Kavanaugh, SJ
The wisdom shared by all the saints, after all, was not about the particular talents or deficits one brought to the world. It was about the wholehearted-ness of love, a willingness to give it all away.
John J. Pilch
Love, Hate, and Group Attachment
Jesus is not commanding his followers to cultivate a negative emotion toward their intimate kinfolk but rather to detach themselves from the kinship group “for the sake of Jesus and the gospel.”
What is our reason for loving ourselves? Surely because we are the image and likeness of God. And since all men and women possess this same dignity we love them as ourselves.
Reginald H. Fuller
In Hebraic thought, heart, soul, and strength do not mean separate human faculties but the person in the totality of his/her being.