GOSPEL THOUGHTS
20th
Week – Friday
Gospel – Matthew
22: 34-40
St Pius X
You
shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and
with all your mind
1)
Three important faculties of Human Being
When we speak about human beings we need to take into account
all the three faculties or areas.
An action which is prompted by all these three faculties or when
a action involves all these three faculties, the action becomes complete.
When a action is involves only one or two faculties the action
becomes incomplete
2)
Example for incomplete action
When a person walks on the streets he may come across a beggar
in a bad condition. There may be varieties of reactions by people towards
the beggar
First group of people may feel very sad to see his situation.
They may stop for a moment, to see his miserable state. With that they move
forward. No concrete action what so ever
Second group of people may reason out and find out the reasons
for his present state. They may give 101 suggestions about how to overcome from
this miserable state. With that it gets over
The third group may pray for the person to overcome from this
state. With the prayer their work is done
A person uses all the three faculties will feel for it, will
reason out to bring him out from this state and may provide necessary spiritual
help to strengthen him.
The fourth person will do something at the practical level which
will help the person to overcome from his bad state.
This is the difference between acting with three faculties and
acting with one or two faculties
3)
Love with all your heart
Heart is the symbol of love. A person is unable to love without
the heart
Love is depicted with the symbol of heart
Heart is the center of feeling. Without feelings one can't
live
A hard hearted person is not able to love.
So the practice the commandment of Love one requires heart of
flesh and not the heart of stone.
4)
Love with all your Mind
Mind is the center of reason and thought
We should reason out whatever we do. We should not be carried
out by the feelings alone
Acting with feelings alone will make our life miserable and we
will surely miss our track
So a powerful reasoning is very much necessary to understand the
commandment, to have more in depth knowledge about it and practice it in an
effective way
5)
Love with all your Soul
Soul is the center of the dwelling place of God
It is the presence of God in us. It is the part of divine life
which is given to us
It is the soul which gives a spiritual identity to our
life.
Without the soul we are nothing.
Loving with Soul is very much necessary to understand the
spiritual and divine aspect of Love.
The unconditional/Agapeic love can be experienced only at the
Spiritual level which needs a powerful spiritual foundation.
The soul aspect of love, makes our love divine and Spiritual in
nature
6)
Jesus' Command to Love with all these three faculties
When Jesus says about the great commandment, he specifically
mentions all these three faculties. Heart, Mind and Soul
This simply means that the great commandment can't be practiced
only at the Head level or at the Heart level or only at the prayer level
All these three faculties must include practicing this
commandment in a genuine way.
Love commandment practiced only at the Mind/head level in
incomplete
Love commandment practiced only at the feeling/heart level without
understanding it is incomplete
Love commandment practiced only at the Soul/prayer level without
having done anything else will be incomplete
Love commandment practiced involving at all these three
faculties will bring about a great change
7)
Change comes when all these three faculties are involved in a perfect balance
All great visionaries had all these faculties and they used it
in a perfect way
All saints practiced the commandment love with these three
faculties. Therefore they were able to bring a great change first in their life
and secondly in others
Great Change will come when we use these three faculties at a
perfect level
8)
What about my Life
Which faculty is working more?
Am I person only of feelings?
Am I a person only of reason?
Am I person only of Prayer?
9)
St Pius x - Saint of the Day
His motto was “To restore all things to Christ, in
order that Christ may be all in all”
He was 258th Pope. He was born on 2nd June 1835. Ordained on 18
September 1858. Elected as Pope 20th July 1903. He was canonized on 29 May
1954.
“By
the Catechism the Soil is prepared for the seed of God” Pius X
Fr Maxim D’Souza
Jeppu Seminary
Mangalore
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