PERMANENT DEACON TALKING

FIFTEENTH SUNDAY -The Good Neighbour

July 08, 2022 Deacon Tom
PERMANENT DEACON TALKING
FIFTEENTH SUNDAY -The Good Neighbour
Show Notes

Fifteenth Sunday         10th July 2022   
1st Reading  Deut 30: 10-14                           Gospel LUKE 10:25-37
2nd Reading  Coll 1:15-20
           The parable of the Good Samaritan can be looked at in all sorts of ways .
 Advice on kindness and social concern or how not to be a hypocrite or too caught up in our self importance to be delayed from our more worthwhile plans.
 One interpretation I found to be useful is to see the story as an encounter with Jesus himself who wants everyone to be like him. To imitate his compassion and works of mercy. Could the Good Samaritan be Jesus himself.?
The spiritual life of undulations . The difficult thing to understand is that sometimes it is on the lowest point that an encounter with Jesus can occur with an offer to enter into the love shared in the Trinity.
What if we looked at the parable this way as if we were on a path searching for holiness but being tempted on all sides and distracted by the attractions along the way.

Hymn -Praise the Lord who heals the broken-hearted
© Mike Anderson 2008 (Re-written 2021) BasedonPsalm146/147 ©TheGrail,England,andusedwithpermission.

John Main
Twelve Talks for Meditators - 02 The Tradition of the Mantra I
© The World Community for Christian Meditation 2012
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