Tobit 6:10-11; 7:1, 9-14; 8:4-9 / Mark 12:28-34
A love story is a beautiful story. It is a beautiful story because it is about love.
Married couples also have a love story. It is a story of how they met, how they fell in love, how they courted and how they finally got married.
But the story does not stop after marriage. Their love story must continue as they journey together into a ripe old age.
The 1st reading can be called a love story between Tobias and Sarah. It was a story of how they met, how they were married and more interestingly how they prayed on the first night of their marriage.
They prayed for God's grace and protection, and they prayed that God be kind to them and bring them to old age together.
But it is also God's love story - of how He loved them and how He brought them together and how He blessed and protected them in their marriage.
God also has a love story for each of us - of how He loved us and how He blessed us and how He journeyed with us through life.
We too must have a love story to share - of how we loved God with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our mind and with all our strength. and how we have loved our neighbour as ourself.
When we have a love story to share, we make the world a beautiful place. Because love is beautiful.