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Sunday's Gospel Reflection
 Is there a debt worth carrying for a lifetime? We usually think of debt as something we should eventually pay off. Most of us spend much of our lives trying to pay for what we own, hoping that one day nothing will remain. But St. Paul speaks of a different kind of debt: “Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another” (Romans 13:8). This debt of love is different. It is a debt worth carrying for a lifetime. We can always love a little more and forgive one more time. We never reach the point where we can say, “I have loved enough.”
Our lives are built around loves we can never fully repay—the love of parents, friends, teachers, and above all, the love of God. As St. John reminds us: “This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us.” Much of who we are is the result of someone who believed in us when we could not believe in ourselves, forgave us when we failed, stayed when it would have been easier to leave, or simply made us feel that our life mattered. And perhaps that is why the debt of love is not meant to be paid back but passed on. Every family should build such a bank—not of possessions, but of stories: This is how your grandparents loved. This is how your parents and siblings sacrificed. This is how we forgave. This is how we stayed together. This is how God carried us. These are the riches we leave for the next generation. We may never repay all the love we have received—and that is not failure; it is grace. A lifelong debt of love keeps us humble, grateful, compassionate, and deeply connected—to God, to one another, and to the whole of creation. There is, indeed, a debt worth carrying for a lifetime: the debt of love. Blessings in Christ,
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ON-GOING EVENTS3rd Sundays
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All children are invited to join the Children's Spanish Rosary, Saturdays at 3:00 pm in the Mission garden.
