Today's gospel: "When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a scholar of the law tested him by asking, 'Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?' He said to him, 'You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments."
De La Salle (Med. 70.3): "Nothing shows better that we love another person than when we cannot help thinking about that person."
A tough thought after our day off. The temptation, the desire, is strong not to think of school. Without asking, though, I would guess that all of us thought about a student (or more than one). Nothing, as De La Salle wrote, shows more your love for our students. Nothing shows more your love for God, either: "Recognize Jesus beneath the poor rags of the children whom you have to instruct; adore him in them" (De La Salle, Med. 96.3). Thank you for the love of God and students that you show daily, even when we are not on campus.
Live, Jesus, in our hearts, forever!