Friday of the 3rd Week of Lent

Which commandment.
Is the most important.
What will be our testament.
And have we given rather than just lent.
You shall love your God with all your heart.
And you shall love your neighbour as yourself.
Not a bad start.
Rejecting the selfish self.I have heard these words ten thousand times.
But now at mass they seemed to have new force.
Do I really follow those loving rhymes.
No I don’t, Of course.

But again and again we fail.
And try not just to flail.

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You should love your God
And you should love your neighbour
As you love yourself

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See Mark 12 : 28b-34