Love for Our Neighbor
Romans 12:15
“My communion of love with my neighbour can subsist only in faith in God.”
—SANCTORUM COMMUNIO
My neighbor is that special person whom circumstances place within my sphere of contact. Not everyone is neighbor to my neighbor, but I and a small group of others are. This brings with it special opportunities and blessings, for in my neighbor I can experience something of God’s general design for human community. I can also experience something of the reciprocity that makes life rich. And by faith I can see my neighbor as the one for whom Christ died.
Meditation
In the face of my neighbor I can see the hope for human community, mutual respect, mutual care, and the potentiality for a mutual celebration of the love and goodness of God.
What is your prayer thought for today’s lesson?