Chris McDonnell, writing in the Catholic Times, and thinking of different walls through history reminds us that "The simple yet profound injunction of Jesus that we should ‘love God and our neighbor as ourselves’, is too easily forgotten." We should he says "Pause awhile and tear down those walls."

1st Reading: Hebrews 2:5-12

Jesus, crowned with glory, having been tested through suffering

Now God did not subject the coming world, about which we are speaking, to angels. But someone has testified somewhere, “What are human beings that you are …