In today’s Gospel, Jesus, facing an extremely hostile situation, teaches that the whole of the Jewish Torah and the teaching of the prophets can be summarized in the two-fold command to love God and neighbor. Because the love of God cannot be separated from the command to love the neighbor, the Lord’s Torah is a source of protection for the weak and needy. Let us thank God for the gift of the Torah in the words of the responsorial psalm: “I love you, Lord, my strength” (Ps 18). The laws in our Exodus … more