Sunday Reflections

By Fr Charles Anthonyswamy

What Is So ‘Great’ About the Great Commandments?

Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Cycle A - 29 October 2023

Ex 22:21-27; 1 Thess 1:5c-10; Mt 22:34-40

“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?”, a scholar of the law asks Jesus. Why this obsession with the greatest law? The Pharisees and the teachers of the law prided themselves on their meticulous observance of the law and obliged the community to do the same.