There was a scholar of the law who stood up to test Jesus and said, "Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?" Jesus said to him, "What is written in the law? How do you read it?" He said in reply, "You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your being, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself." He replied to him, "You have answered correctly; do this and you will live." But because he wished to justify himself, he said to Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?" (Lk 10:25-37)
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/071325.cfm
“Who is my neighbor?” is the all important question in a world like ours. In response Jesus gives us the Parable of the Good Samaritan. Who was neighbor to the man in the ditch? The answer comes, “The one who treated him with mercy.” And Jesus replies, “Go and do likewise.” Being merciful is not ‘woke.’ Being merciful is what Christ commands. https://youtu.be/YYjurJyJN7g?si=jtvd4PZpLdK-FWEb
These reflections are a result of more than 40 years of ministry as a Roman Catholic priest. Most of these years I spent in the Diocese of Charlotte which covers Western North Carolina. Now I am retired, and live in Medellín, Colombia where I continue to serve as a priest in the Archdiocese of Medellín.
Sunday XV, Ordinary Time
