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Homily - 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time 3rd November

We hear from both Moses and Jesus that we must love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul and with all our strength.

Furthermore, Moses tells us that we should let these words be written on our heart.

Let us think for a moment who is written on our heart.

Many people, our mother and father, a favourite grandparent or aunt or uncle, a special schoolteacher, a best friend, family dogs and cats and other pets, a wonderful neighbour.

Already our hearts are well written upon yet for most of us, very early on we were Baptised and the name and the Presence of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, one God was written on our hearts.

As life has passed by, we forget about the name of God being written on our hearts because we keep on meeting more and more people and it becomes easy to be caught up with them being in our hearts.

So let us all go back to the name of the Lord, written on our hearts from the time of our Baptism and remember who it is who is written there, the very name of God. The one who has loved us and who is with us and who goes with us on the journey of life to the end of our lives and whose name takes us on into the next life.

Lord your name has been written on my heart, let me remember you constantly as the One who is with me with your loving Presence. Amen.