From today’s Scripture: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord.”—Lk 4:18-19

Love, love, love, all you need is love. The Beatles sang that perhaps in hope, perhaps  in a biting irony of hatred of the 60s, or probably as a reminder of the essential human existential aspect: love of God and love of neighbor.

It is easier to claim our love for God! It is harder to find a matching love when God comes disguised as a next-door neighbor, or as a disturbing homeless beggar at a stoplight! We are called to love no matter how God is manifest in our world.

Let us pray: O, God, wake me up! Let me listen and pray intently, so that I might go out and touch a life today. Let my presence in the world be a prayer.

Today’s author is Glenmary Father Kenn Wandera, who is currently in doctoral studies at the University of Dayton.

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