F Michael – Homilette 8/25/17 – Love

F Michael – Homilette 8/25/17 – Love

+Ruth 1:1, 3-6, 14b-16, 22; Mt 22:34-40

The love asked of us by the great commandment, the great Shima, the love so wonderfully expressed my Ruth in our first reading toward, her mother-in-law, is beyond our human capability. And God knows this far better than we do.

It is only when we have deeply experienced such love, felt it in the depths of our own hearts, that we become capable of responding in such measure, become ready to risk such a venture.

Is this not what the Eucharist we celebrate each day is intended to be and bring about within our community and within each of our hearts. Here is made present a love that is beyond our best efforts to understand or to begin to grasp. Here is made present a love which is beyond all telling, Christ’s giving up his own life for us that we may be filled with his own Holy Spirit.