I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy, thankful for your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now.
And I am sure that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
It is right for me to feel thus about you all, because I hold you in my heart, for you are all partakers with me of grace, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel. For God is my witness, how I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus.
And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruits of righteousness which come through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
-- Philippians 1: 3 - 11
Love of God and Neighbor
Gospel Luke 10:25-37 25 There was a scholar of the law who stood up to test Jesus and said, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life...
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r First Reading 1 John 4:7-16 7 Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows ...