Friends, in the Gospel this Sunday Jesus repeats the great commandment to love the Lord our God with all our hearts, with all all our souls, with all our minds and with all our strength. The following is a beautiful extract from the Catechism of the Catholic Church on how we adore God and fulfill the first commandment:
'Adoration is the first act of the virtue of religion. To adore God is to acknowledge him as God, as the Creator and Savior, the Lord and Master of everything that exists, as infinite and merciful Love. "You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve," says Jesus, citing Deuteronomy 13.
To adore God is to acknowledge, in respect and absolute submission, the "nothingness of the creature" who would not exist but for God. To adore God is to praise and exalt him and to humble oneself, as Mary did in the Magnificat, confessing with gratitude that he has done great things and holy is his name. The worship of the one God sets man free from turning in on himself, from the slavery of sin and the idolatry of the world'.
Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2096-2097