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30 May 2018

Love God and love your neighbour (in that order)

The summarized command of Jesus to love God and love one's neighbour is given in a particular order: God takes precedence.  The speaker Fr Jose Plascencia spoke of the threefold idolatry that threatens the very foundation of our christian and religious life...

  1. absolutizing material things and adoring money as god
  2. finding in a person (or persons) the ultimate and definitive meaning of our life, setting aside the primacy due to God
  3. putting ourselves in God's place (perhaps, the most dangerous temptation of all)

The worst thing could be instead of serving God, making use of God to serve our purposes!  

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