Living the Intensity of Divine Love and Bearing Witness to Mercy for Our Neighbor
Today, God invites us to discover the unsuspected richness of love: a total love, offered with every fiber of our being, and a love without boundaries, cast like a net of mercy over every person in distress. “This law… is very near to you” “For this commandment that I enjoin on you today is not too hard for you, nor is it beyond your reach. It is not in heaven, that you should say, ‘Who will go up to heaven for us and get it for us, that we may hear it and observe it?’ Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, ‘Who will cross to the other side of the sea for us and get it for us, that we may hear it and observe it?’ No, the word is very near to you; it is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you… Read more
July 13, 2025
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