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For this is the message you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

—1 John 3:11 (NRSV)

Christ spoke thus to St. Catherine of Siena: “Love of Me and of one’s neighbor are one and the same thing; and, so far as the soul loves Me, it loves its neighbor, because love toward one’s neighbor issues from Me. This is the means I have given you, so that you may exercise and prove your virtue; because, inasmuch as you can do Me no profit, you should do good to your neighbor. This proves that you possess Me by grace in your soul, producing much fruit for your neighbor and making prayers to Me, as you seek with sweet and loving desire My honor and the salvation of souls.’”

Show me my “neighbor” today, Lord. I promise I will respond.