Did you know there are over 1000 “commandments” in the New Testament? That is almost twice as many as the religious Jews identified from their Torah (first five books of the Old Testament – 613 of ...

Making use of two verses from the Old Testament, Jesus declares, “You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. A ...

This Sunday’s readings—from Deuteronomy and Mark—repeat the Shema Yisrael. That proclamation—“Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our Lord, the Lord alone!”—is what every devout Jew declares every day. The ...

In today’s Gospel, Jesus teaches that the greatest commandments are love of God and love of neighbor. Illustrating this event in religious art is a challenge because, as I’ve noted before, when Jesus ...

It’s a new year, and with that comes the long-time tradition of making a list of resolutions and the relatively new advent of choosing a word of the year. Everyone’s resolutions and words are ...

The Great Commandment calls us to love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength, and to love our neighbor as ourselves. But love like this does not come easily. It requires formation, training ...

Today’s Gospel reading is one of my favorite scripture readings as it teaches us something very fundamental about our Christian faith… and you could not read a clearer teaching than this on the ...

We must remember that we serve a Holy God, and God’s holiness is transcendent. It stretches beyond the universe, and yet it is closer than our own breath. Every aspect of life is under, through, and ...

If you look up the word “love” in a dictionary, you will find something like this: Love means having an interest in and a warm regard for another, and wishing good for the other. That definition is ...

Our Sunday gospel reading today is a message from our Lord Jesus Christ for all Christians to ponder deeply if we want eternal salvation for after life. You can read it in Matt.22: 34-40. “When the ...