Jesus could have handed out copies of his encyclicals – the Sermon on the Mount, Beatitudes, the Our Father. Rather, he gave us his preaching as guides to understand the next stage of the journey of the Body of Christ to discover the fulness of eternal life in God!
We face very real threats to earth our common home and the threat of losing awareness that all are created equal. In other words the threat of not taking seriously that we are all sons and daughters, therefore sisters and brothers.
“I would like to invite you to go on a journey together… I am calling it a journey because it requires a shift, a change.” Pope Francis
In a beautiful document on the call to human community, Pope Francis offers the “Good Samaritan” as a lens through which we can look at the many serious problems of a polarized and insensitive world.
Rereading the story from the perspective of our own experiences of anxieties is a wake-up call!
My parents shared a dream for their children. They taught their children a dream. We are God’s dream as sons and daughters, brothers and sisters. Jesus embodied that dream and taught us to live that dream.
