Newsletter 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A) 25th October, 2026
GOSPEL REFLECTION
Our Lord says the greatest commandment is: “You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment.” God’s plan is for us to love Him as much as the saints do in Heaven. The saints in Heaven are completely and totally in love with God. God is their “all and everything.” Nothing else comes close, everything else is a far second. Compared to God, ‘almost’ everything else doesn’t exist. The saints in Heaven love God with “all their heart, with all their soul and with all their mind.” In John’s First Letter, Chapter 3, verse 2, it says that when we are in heaven ‘we shall be like God for we shall see Him as He is.” When the saints look at God, each saint gets the impression that, in God’s mind, each of them is the only one in existence. God looks at each of the saints, And, also, each one of us, as if each one of us were the only thing in existence. God can do that. You and I can’t do that, but God can and does do that. God looks at you as if He, God, exists only for you, and God looks at you with infinite love, a love that consumes Himself to the point of extinction. In fact, that is how Our Lord died. He didn’t die due to crucifixion, He died because of Love for us, a love for us so great that His Love consumed Himself to extinction. Therefore, when a saint in heaven looks at God, they are perfectly fulfilled, and they can’t imagine being more fulfilled. However, because God’s love is infinite or always more, the saints in heaven, increasingly experience higher levels of fulfilment, and that happens for all eternity. Even if we were to live for all eternity, which we never will, because there is no end to eternity, we will still not receive all His love, because there is no end to infinite love. St Paul teaches us in 1 Cor 2:9: “no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of a man conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him.” St Paul in Ephesians 3:21 writes that the saints in heaven are “filled with the utter fullness of God.” Therefore, the saints in heaven are one in God and full of God, The Catholic Catechism of the Church states that: “Christ enables us to live in Him and He to live in us.” (n.527) In the Gospel of John 14.20 we read; “On that day you will understand that I Am in the Father and you are in Me and I Am in you.” Our Lord said to St. Margaret Mary, who died in 1690, that His plan is for us to live in His Sacred Heart, where we will experience His infinite Love where we will be transformed more and more into union with Himself, Heaven on earth.
Our Lord’s plan is for all of us to be in His embrace,
to be in Him.
To be in His Sacred Heart.
To be healed by His love.
To always be in heaven on earth.
by Fr Doug Harris
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