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March 10, 2021“Shema, Israel… Now, Israel, hear… Whoever obeys and teaches these commandments will be called greatest in the Kingdom of heaven” (Deuteronomy 4:1 and Matthew 5:19).
How often do parents, concerned for their children’s welfare, anxiously ask, “Do you hear what I’m telling you?” How often does our Gracious God pose that same question to us for the very same reasons?
The Great Commandment requires that we love God totally and our neighbor as ourselves. Its fuller meaning expands as our discipleship deepens. I am reading Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson. The Pulitzer Prize winning author brilliantly exposed the unspoken, yet clearly heard, directives about who belongs where within our country. Who has an inherent right to a nicer car, a certain type of job, a better education, and who does not? We Americans still do not obey the letter, much less the spirit, of the civil rights legislations promulgated since the 1960s.
Dominicans traditionally take only one vow: to listen, to obey. Do we?
