In today’s Gospel (Mark 12:28-34) we are instructed on all the Law and the Prophets: we are to commit our lives to God with heart, soul, mind, and strength and to live that out daily by loving our neighbors the same way we reflexively take care our ourselves.
In the responsorial psalm for today, God uses a homely metaphor to suggest how He will reward living life that Gospel way:
“If only my people would hear me, and Israel walk in my ways, I would feed them with the best of wheat, and with honey from the rock I would fill them.” Psalm 81:14, 17
Nothing abstract about that. Instead, a reward to appeal to a Southerner’s heart: warm, homemade biscuits slathered with honey! Doesn’t Heaven seems a bit more real when our Lord puts it that way?
You’re making me hungry!! and here at lent ,when I’m trying to give these things up !