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Yes, you are to love God with all your heart. But the second part of that command is to love your neighbor as you love yourself. The two are not to be separated. If you do not know why your neighbor is leaving early, and you pass judgment unfairly on him, you break the whole commandment yourself. You then become a hypocrite. Think about it.The most Important thing should be,that we love God with all our Heart,s. If people can,t take the time to be in church from the beinging too the end their is no excuse,for their are Mass on Sat and Sun,for their are diffident times,on those day,s,so that people can go to Mass. At one parish, the priest was giving Holy Communion too the people up in the choir,when he came out threw the door he seen A father and his son leaving, he said too them were are you going,MASS Isn,t over with.
Also, if you claim to love God with your whole heart and sin against Him in any way, you are not loving Him with your whole heart. So before you use this half of the commandment against your neighbor, be sure you are without sin yourself.
You surely remember the scripture where a woman was caught in adultery and brought to Jesus and was going to be stoned. What did Jesus tell them–the one without sin was to cast the first stone. Reflect on this for a while before complaining about people. Ask God for patience and wisdom.
I am not accusing you of doing these things, just wanting you to think before you pursue the path of judging without knowing the whole story. That is what people here are trying to get across to you.
As for what the priest did–a priest once did that at our parish to a teenager leaving early. He embarrassed him to death by publicly singling him out. It was awful, and it did not solve a thing except to embarrass the boy and make the congregation mad. It was a very poor example of how to treat someone. I don’t know if the kid ever came back.