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of your house and on your gates deuteronomy 6 4 9 rsv jesus affirmed this preeminent tenet of jewish faith when asked to assert the greatest commandment and he paired it with the further command in leviticus 19 18 you shall love your neighbor as yourself teacher which is the great commandment in the law and he said to him you shall love the lord your god with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind this is the great and first commandment and a second is like it you shall love your neighbor as yourself on these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets matthew 22 36 40 for god is love 1 john 4 8 16 and our creator reached out to love us first therefore the correlative command to love our neighbor follows from god s overflowing love for us sinful though we proved to be right from the start in the garden of eden god sent jesus the son and messiah to reconcile us to himself for eternity st john the evangelist proclaims this great dynamic of love 1 john 4 7 21 in a chapter that rivals in poetic beauty and power the famous love chapter of st paul 1 corinthians 13 beloved let us love one another for love is of god and he who loves is born of god and knows god he who does not love does not know god for god is love in this the love of god was made manifest among us that god sent his only son into the world so that we might live through him in this is love not that we loved god but that he loved us and sent his son to be the expiation for our sins beloved if god so loved us we also ought to love one another no man has ever seen god if we love one another god abides in us and his love is perfected in us we love because he first loved us if any one says i love god and hates his brother he is a liar for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love god whom he has not seen and this commandment we have from him that he who loves god should love his brother also 1 john 4 7 12 19 21 rsv regarding these two intertwined loves commanded by god for our good st teresa of avila wrote the most certain sign in my opinion as to whether or not we are observing these two laws is whether we observe well the love of neighbor we cannot know whether or not we love god although there are strong indications for recognizing that we do love him but we can know whether we love our neighbor and be certain that the more advanced you see you are in love for your neighbor the more advanced you will be in the love of god for the love his majesty has for us is so great that to repay us for our love of neighbor he will in a thousand ways increase the love we have for him i cannot doubt this collected works vol ii p 351 i e interior castle v 3 no 8 thus love of god is the root as she says but love of neighbor is the visible fruit and measure of both loves and their progress again it is not in great deeds or projects but in humble day to day loving and bearing with our neighbor and ourselves that we grow in love see interior castle v 3 nos 9 it is intriguing to me that she identifies love of god as both the impetus and the reward of love of neighbor there is a supernatural reciprocal bond at work here now let me return to the new testament and let st paul have his say on love too in his own unforgettable testimony who shall separate us from the love of christ shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword as it is written for thy sake we are being killed all the day long we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered no in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us for i am sure that neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities nor things present nor things to come nor powers nor height nor depth nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of god in christ jesus our lord romans 8 35 39 rsv love never ends as for prophecies they will pass away as for tongues they will cease as for knowledge it will pass away for our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect but when the perfect comes the imperfect will pass away when i was a child i spoke like a child i thought like a child i reasoned like a child when i became a man i gave up childish ways for now we see in a mirror dimly but then face to face now i know in part then i shall understand fully even as i have been fully understood so faith hope love abide these three but the greatest of these is love make love your aim 1 corinthians 13 8 13 14 1 if we yoke our love to god s love and our thoughts and actions to loving each other we participate in something imperishable something infinitely valuable even now in this life only love has meaning it raises up our smallest actions into infinity st faustina diary 502 loving in difficult times we are living in difficult times who would doubt it we may not be shipwrecked stoned or beaten and run out of town as st paul was but each of us according to our state in life has a full helping of undeniable struggles sorrows and trials to bear many of us are enduring sufferings of seeming biblical proportions fire flood hurricanes pestilence persecution and injustice even martyrdom this is certainly true around the world too where one must add locusts desperate famines and war if we have been spared most of these things depending on our circumstances each of us still faces a host of challenging tasks short and long term that constitute our work and our daily life conducted in the midst of family and friends interacting with co workers and anyone we chance to meet but behind these overt life tasks as a sort of hidden foundation and support is our vocation to love st thérèse of lisieux discovered this for herself even in her very circumscribed existence as a carmelite nun in fact it was this realization that catapulted her into a worldwide spiritual fellowship that has continued burgeoning to this day thérèse in 1886 age 13 wikimedia for years she had been feeling powerless and supremely frustrated since her desires to serve and love god far outstripped what she felt were her natural abilities as she herself said she was not made for great penances and she even fell asleep saying her rosary she was conscious of her faults and weaknesses in an acute way so often true of the saints one day she turned to reading st paul his first letter to the corinthians chapters 12 and 13 on the different spiritual gifts and she hoped to find an answer there she did she read that all the other gifts depended on love and were nothing without them in her letter to her sister marie sept 8 1896 ms b she declared i understood that love was everything that it embraced all times and places in a word that it was eternal then in the excess of my delirious joy i cried out o jesus my love my vocation at last i have found it my vocation is love yes i have found my place in the church and it is you o my god who have given me this place in the heart of the church my mother i shall be love thus i shall be everything and thus my dream will be realized story of a soul chap ix manuscript b study edition p 302 the capital letters are all thérèse the outpouring of her joy thérèse suffered considerably during her short life dying of tuberculosis at age 24 but she had found the secret of doing everything as an offering of merciful love to god a return of the love she received as his little child she is so well known and loved by people now because her little way is not inaccessible but open to all like faustina she could say love love and once again love doing this we are doing all loving god and loving each other in the smallest daily actions and sacrifices we are doing god s will and trusting in his mercy for our frailty as it turns out love is enough more than enough the universal vocation we were all born to take up even if we are able to do nothing else that path is open to us resources divine mercy in my soul the diary of saint maria faustina kowalska stockbridge ma marian press 1987 first polish edition 1981 fr seraphim michalenko homily on st faustina s mission and her sufferings to proclaim the divine mercy of god and intercede for humanity https youtu be lxaptl5mvwc fr seraphim was the postulator for the cause of sainthood for sr faustina canonized april 30 2000 the shema the daily declaration of faith https www chabad org library article_cdo aid 705353 jewish the shema htm the collected works of saint teresa of avila volume two the way of perfection meditations on the song of songs the interior castle trans by kieran kavanaugh and otilio rodriguez washington dc ics publications 1980 story of a soul the autobiography of st thérèse of lisieux a study edition trans by john clarke study ed prepared by marc foley washington dc ics publications 2005 2016 hunger and generous gleanings the book of ruth july 16 2020 lucy pollard gott istock credit iakovkalinin recently i saw a news story asking for volunteers to collect gleanings from the local fields in order to help feed hungry people to glean a field is to gather the grain or other produce left behind in a field after it has been harvested collecting the gleanings is an ancient practice to alleviate hunger and avoid waste since the economic hardships of this spring and now into the summer we have seen people line up for hours to receive the produce from free farmers markets such as this one supported by rolling harvest food rescue food banks and school meal programs have been operating steadily and quietly for a long time but this new phenomenon shows the increased state of hunger and economic need in america today i was reminded that this same practice of gathering gleanings from a field was a crucial element in the book of ruth in the bible it became the occasion for god s mercy and the care of his people to extend even beyond israel it was also the occasion for the descent of god s blessings on human beings these blessings crucially linked ruth to the lineage of jesus see matthew 1 5 6 let s review the chief events in the moving story of naomi ruth and boaz and consider how this ancient practice of gleaning a field might connect us to some of the themes of this short but compelling book the story of ruth ruth in the field of boaz 1828 julius schnorr von carolsfeld wikimedia the story of ruth begins with hunger it takes place during the period of the judges in israel and it happens to be a time of famine elimelech a man of bethlehem in judah leaves his home in search of food taking with him his wife naomi and their two sons they resettle in the country of moab but after a while elimelech dies leaving naomi a widow her grown sons mahlon and chilion each marry women from moab ruth and orpah respectively after ten years both mahlon and chilion die naomi feels she has lost everything her husband her sons and the possibility of having grandchildren she decides to return home to judah where she has heard the lord has visited his people and given them food ruth 1 6 her daughters in law begin to journey with her but before they go far naomi decides to send the two young women back to their mothers homes in moab where they might have a chance to remarry and have children naomi blesses them and kisses them she is treating them with kindness and mercy just as they treated her and her sons with kindness during their marriages both ruth and orpah burst into tears and protest that they will accompany naomi but naomi is firm that this is best for them reluctantly orpah kisses naomi and turns back toward moab but ruth makes no such move but rather clings even closer to her mother in law naomi says see your sister in law has gone back to her people and to her gods return after your sister in law 1 15 but ruth refuses declaring her intentions in these beautiful words entreat me not to leave you or to return from following you for where you go i will go and where you lodge i will lodge your people shall be my people and your god my god where you die i will die and there will i be buried may the lord do so to me and more also if even death parts me from you ruth 1 16 17 rsv these unmistakable words have the force of a covenant oath a binding promise in which ruth commits herself to naomi naomi s home her people and her god she will live and die with naomi and her people from now on until her own death and she also swears to a covenant curse should she fail in her promise or even depart from the land after naomi s death the depth of this commitment cannot be exaggerated ruth s hunger clearly goes beyond her physical hunger which can be assuaged by physical food she has a hunger for lifelong family fidelity a true kinship of hearts based on loyalty mutual kindness and love ruth also evinces a deep spiritual hunger for the true god whom she has begun to know through her mother in law and husband her conversion to the god of her new people is total and unqualified naomi accepts her daughter in law and they continue together to bethlehem although she is greeted by friends there her heart is still heavy she tells them do not call me na omi call me mara for the almighty has dealt very bitterly with me i went away full and the lord has brought me back empty ruth 1 20 21 the hebrew name naomi means my delight or pleasant whereas mara means bitter ruth s name meaning she who comforts is also apt expressing her role as well as her desire be a steady consolation to her mother in law ruth begins her new life with naomi by seeking to provide for their food she asks her mother in law s permission to go and glean in the fields of grain she sets to work at this task and happens to glean in the fields belonging to boaz a near kinsman of naomi s boaz notices the unfamiliar young woman and asks about her among the other reapers he learns she is ruth the daughter in law of his kinswoman naomi and he is pleased because ruth s good reputation for kindness and loyalty is already known among her new adopted people he addresses ruth with gentleness and politeness and adjures her to continue to glean only from his fields staying close to the other young women who are reaping there he assures her of his protection none of the men working there in his fields will bother her when she bows and even prostrates in gratitude asking boaz why she a foreigner has found such favor in his eyes he explains and blesses her all that you have done for your mother in law since the death of your husband has been fully told me and how you left your father and mother and your native land and came to a people that you did not know before the lord recompense you for what you have done and a full reward be given you by the lord the god of israel under whose wings you have come to take refuge ruth 2 11 12 rsv he gives her some bread dipped in wine at mealtime and when she rises and goes away to continue gleaning he instructs the repears to leave extra ears of grain for her to gather pulling out some of the grain from their own bundles and not to rebuke her in any way whe...