Commentary
“Be Imitators of the Lord”
In the 2nd
reading, Paul instructs the Thessalonians, “You know what sort of people we
were among you for your sake. And you
became imitators of us and of the Lord, receiving the word in great affliction,
with joy from the Holy Spirit, so that you became a model for all the believers.”
In other
words, Paul summarizes the progression of the Christian life. He and
his companion imitated the Lord. The Thessalonian
Christians imitate them [1]. Those Christians then become the models for
others to imitate.
Then in
today’s Gospel, Jesus gives us the program of the Christian life, the program
that he is the ultimate model for us to imitate: the two-fold commandment of
love.
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[1] Similarly,
he wrote to the Corinthians, “Be imitators of me, as I am of
Christ” (1 Corinthians 11:1).
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