The 31st Sunday of the Year
Dt 6:2-6; Ps 18; Heb 7:23-28; Mk 12:28B-34 (Year B)
In the long history of God’s people, the Book of Deuteronomy brings to its conclusion a period of uncertainty and wandering. The children of Abraham, after many generations as stateless nomads, had been reduced to slavery in Egypt. Through Moses, God’s servant and prophet, their cries of distress had been heard. Moses was to become the instrument of their deliverance, and the Law, entrusted to him, would become their way to life, leading them to the very borders of the Promised Land.
