On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
“What is written in the Law?” he replied. “How do you read it?”
He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’”
“You have answered correctly,” Jesus replied. “Do this and you will live.”
But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbour?”
In reply Jesus said: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers…”
(Luke 10: 25-37)
We all know this story, and how it ends.
How many times have we read or heard this parable during Mass and other functions? Even people of other religions use the term “good Samaritan” to describe somebody who is ready to help somebody else irrespective of caste, creed, sex, religion. Hospitals and other medical facilities tend to name their establishments “The Good Samaritan” in honour of the Samaritan who helped the man who was attacked while going down from Jerusalem to Jericho.
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Bro Carmel Duca MC
