"You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind."
Reading 1, Ex 22:20-26
20 'You will not molest or oppress aliens, for you yourselves were once aliens in Egypt.
21 You will not ill-treat widows or orphans;
22 if you ill-treat them in any way and they make an appeal to me for help, I shall certainly hear their appeal,
23 my anger will be roused and I shall put you to the sword; then your own wives will be widows and your own children orphans.
24 'If you lend money to any of my people, to anyone poor among you, you will not play the usurer with him: you will not demand interest from him.
25 'If you take someone's cloak in pledge, you will return it to him at sunset.
26 It is all the covering he has; it is the cloak he wraps his body in; what else will he sleep in? If he appeals to me, I shall listen. At least with me he will find compassion!
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 18:2-3, 3-4, 47, 51
2 Yahweh is my rock and my fortress, my deliverer is my
God. I take refuge in him, my rock, my shield, my saving strength, my
stronghold, my place of refuge.
3 I call to Yahweh who is worthy of praise, and I am saved from my foes.
4 With Death's breakers closing in on me, Belial's torrents ready to swallow me,
47 the God who gives me vengeance, and subjects whole peoples to me,
Gospel,
"You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind."
35 and, to put him to the test, one of them put a further question,
36 'Master, which is the greatest commandment of the Law?'
37 Jesus said to him, 'You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.
38 This is the greatest and the first commandment.
39 The second resembles it: You must love your neighbour as yourself.
40 On these two commandments hang the whole Law, and the Prophets too.'
Reading 2, 1 Thes 1:5c-10
5 It all shows that God's judgement is just, so that you
may be found worthy of the kingdom of God; it is for the sake of this
that you are suffering now.
6 For God's justice will surely mean hardship being inflicted on those who are now inflicting hardship on you,
7 and for you who are now suffering hardship, relief with us, when the Lord Jesus appears from heaven with the angels of his power.
8 He will come amid flaming fire; he will impose a penalty on those who do not acknowledge God and refuse to accept the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
9 Their punishment is to be lost eternally, excluded from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his strength
10 on that day when he comes to be glorified among his
holy ones and marvelled at by all who believe in him; and you are among
those who believed our witness.
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