03/10/2022

Two thousand years ago St Paul has to remind the Galatians that there is only one Gospel. He had preached to them the News of God that had come with Christ. Since that time there have been many who have filled out what is now doctine and many others have denied and then followed paths that lead nowhere for they finish where they start in the human egos that "know"more than God.

The man in the today's parable was born outside the "Law" for he was a Samaritan. The lawyer or theologian who challenged Jesus was not only a Jew but probably a totally committed follower of the Law of Moses and sincere believer in the Lord. The "Law" he followed is the same Law that Jesus knew to perfection and came to complete. It is the first pathway revealed by Father, Son and Holy Spirit and its heart is the Ten Comandments which  are still what they are just as God is still the Evergreater Father of us all.

"Knowing" God is not a matter of bithplace, the Samaitan was from Mt Gerizim not Zion, not  book learning and scholarship, Jesus' challenger was a self-confident lawyer, the by passers were of the "Clergy"; but to know God and be known by him we have to tame our egos and always put God and others before our self-love, before our self-interest , and particularly before our self-esteem.

Dear Lord you know all that is about me. You know the jealousy and greed that exist in the depths of my being; help me accept your love and let my deeds reflect that love throughout the rest of my life. May the Mother of the Church whose obedience to your will is the pattern for all followers of Jesus support those of us who feel alienated by the manifest failings of those who should be living exemplary lives.