Dear Fellow Disciples, peace.

The Gospel today calls us to reflect on the foundation of Christian life: love. When Jesus is asked to identify the greatest commandment, His answer is simple yet profound—“Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind” and “Love your neighbor as yourself” (Matthew 22:37-39). These two commandments are not separate but deeply interconnected. We cannot claim to love God if we neglect our neighbor, and true love for our neighbor flows from our love of God. The true disciple learns in the school of Jesus, the Church, to live and show love al- ways.

Dear Fellow Disciples, peace.

This Sunday the readings focus on themes of service, humility, and the example of Jesus Christ as the Suffering Servant. In today’s Gospel, James and John approach Jesus with a bold request: they want places of honor when Jesus comes into His glory. They’re imagining positions of power and prestige.

from Hamlet, Act III, Scene I, William Shakespeare

Is that really the question? Brothers and sisters, this week the Gospel opens a very important question for those who believe in Jesus Christ. “What must I do to inherit eternal life?" Well just as Shakespeare asks this question to follow it will be noble to suffer. Now we ask ourselves, when we said we would follow Christ, is it noble to do the will of the father? To go out of us and do his will?

We heard those words this week in the readings. Jesus as well in the first reading set to us a teaching of marriage. One of the themes for us in the parish as we move forward in this catechetical year, is focused on the Holy Family and the Domestic church. The domestic church is a vocation for all the Christian families.