We know in our souls, down deep in our being that love of God and love of neighbor should guide our actions, our lives. In Sophocles' play, the ancient Greek heroine Antigone said to her executioner, the tyrant Creon: “I was not born to hate, I was born to love.”
St. Mark offers us these words, “Jesus replied, “The first is this: ‘Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is Lord alone! You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” [Mark 12:29-31]
May God Be Praised.
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