In today’s first reading, 1 Kings 8:22-23, 27-30, we
ask: “Can it indeed be that God dwells
on earth?” If the heavens and the
highest heavens cannot contain you, how much less this temple which I have
built!”
God’s love is so magnanimous, so selfless, so giving that He
created an entire universe to reveal His beauty, His love, His magnificence.
The crown of creation is His creation of humankind in the image and likeness of
God, male and female He created them—He shares Himself in that each of us
reflects the Godhead as much as a child reflects his/her parents. All of creation God proclaimed good;
humankind “very good.” No part of
creation is made for itself. All is made to glorify God! Churches and temples, also, are not made for
themselves but are places in which, through prayer and worship, we are
reconsecrated to the Lord and sent forth to proclaim God’s glory by our works
of love and selfless giving to one another, to the world, and, yes, the universe
itself, beautifying it to glorify its Creator.
In the Gospel, Jesus points out that laws and traditions are
not above integrity of persons, of the call to honor the Lord with hearts open
to respect, love, and service to one
another through the commandments, summed
up as loving God with our whole hearts, our whole mind, and our whole soul and
our neighbor as ourselves.
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