|  | This command is nothing remote or mysterious - it’s already written in our hearts, in the book of sacred Scripture |
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| | The scholar, however, wants to know where he can draw the line. That’s the motive behind his question: “Who is my neighbor?” |
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| | Jesus is “the image of the invisible God,” this week’s Epistle tells us. In Him, the love of God has come very near to us. |
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| | By the “blood of His Cross” - by bearing His neighbors’ sufferings in His own body, being himself stripped and beaten and left for dead - He saved us from bonds of sin, reconciled us to God and to one another. |
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| | Like the Samaritan, He pays the price for us, heals the wounds of sin, pours out on us the oil and wine of the sacraments, entrusts us to the care of His Church, until He comes back for us. |
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| | We are to love as we have been loved, to do for others what He has done for us |
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