No amount of love offerings, money or food can ever buy us our way into heaven. Nor can it be an atonement for our sins. We need first to love God enough to be truly sorry for our sins. For what we have done and what we failed to do. For having offended Him by our evil choices over all that is good.
To love our Heavenly Father is to love His Son our Lord and redeemer Jesus Christ. Who came to liberate us from our sins and to guide us Home to Him. To love Jesus is to to love the Word and the truth which unites all the faithful and separates us from non believers even family. And the love we have for our one triune God is the love we will have for our brethren wherever they may be.
Let us reject evil and remain faithful disciples of our Lord and God. Amen
FIRST READING
Isaiah 1:10–17
GOSPEL
Matthew 10:34–11:1
Jesus said to his Apostles:
“Do not think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth. I have come to bring not peace but the sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter–in–law against her mother–in–law; and one’s enemies will be those of his household.
“Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever does not take up his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
“Whoever receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me. Whoever receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward, and whoever receives a righteous man because he is righteous will receive a righteous man’s reward. And whoever gives only a cup of cold water to one of these little ones to drink because he is a disciple– amen, I say to you, he will surely not lose his reward.”
When Jesus finished giving these commands to his Twelve disciples, he went away from that place to teach and to preach in their towns.
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