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| Sister Kateri Theriault |
Jesus held in the highest esteem the Jewish prayer known as the Shema, which exhorts believers to love God with all their heart. The Shema has survived thousands of years of Jewish exile, dispersion, and persecution and remains a bedrock of Jewish identity to this day. At the end of World War II, an esteemed rabbi traveled Europe to reclaim Jewish children who had been hidden during the Holocaust with non-Jewish families. He would loudly proclaim “Shema Yisrael” (“Hear, O Israel”—the first words of the prayer) at gatherings of children and then look at their faces to see which ones recognized it from their earliest memories of praying with their Jewish families. Pray these words with Christ and live them.
TODAY’S READINGS: Galatians 1:6-12; Luke 10:25-37 (461)
“You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart . . . .”
ContributorsAlice Camille, Daniel Grippo, Caroline Hopkinson, Father Larry Janowski, O.F.M., Ann O’Connor, Joel Schorn, Patrice J. Tuohy, and Sister Julie Vieira, I.H.M.
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