IT ALL BOILS DOWN TO TWO - Homily for the 8th Sunday in Ordinary Time

This is an old idea--one that started way earlier than the last time I used this image, three years ago in the lectionary cycle.  "Accordingly, two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self, even to the contempt of God; the heavenly by the love of God, even to the contempt of self. The former, in a word, glories in itself, the latter in the Lord. For the one seeks glory from men; but the greatest glory of the other is God, the witness of conscience. The one lifts up its head in its own glory; the other says to its God, 'Thou art my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.'” Saint Augustine, The City of God, Book XIV, Chapter 28