The implication of today’s Gospel is that loving our neighbor means more than being kind to our friends and relatives, or to the person who lives next door. Loving one’s neighbor means doing right by any widow or orphan: seeing that the hungry are fed and the homeless sheltered, that the poor have their basic needs met, that the unemployed do not suffer from want, that the young are educated and the old are cared for.
Adults: What prejudices might be hindering you from being the neighbor you are called to be?
Children: Why is it hard to love some “neighbors”?
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