Jesus tells the faithful to hold nothing back in their love for God, the pastor of the Church of St. Augustine in St. Cloud shared on the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time. 

Loving God and loving others is a common idea that we associate with Jesus, the Rev. SCott Pogatchnik said the church bulletin, but do we always understand the depth of what he meant? 

"Notice Jesus doesn't just say, 'Love God and neighbor' as a pious platitude. No, He says love God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind. Everything. Holding nothing back," Pogatchnik said, the bulletin reported. 

And in case there was any doubt in our minds of what Jesus meant, he gives numerous examples: the widow who gave her last coins, the woman who spills her expensive perfume to anoint Jesus, the leper who gives thanks after being healed. 

“Son though he was, Jesus learned obedience by what He suffered. He knows our struggle to love, let alone to love with everything we have,” Pogatchnik said in the bulletin. “It’s more than we can do alone, and so this command is by design: Don’t dare try to love this way on your own. Ask me. Trust me. Stay with me.”