15th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Proper 10), Year C

You shall 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 your neighbor as yourself.
~Luke 10:27
 
 
Here it is—arguably the heart of the Christian enterprise. Love God. Love neighbor. That’s it. The whole of the law and the prophets hang on this, according to Matthew (22:37ff). Luke doesn’t say this part so explicitly. Here Jesus instead tells a story in response to a question—from one, we are told, “seeking to justify himself.”
 
And what does Jesus do? He takes the tradition seriously, and opens it up for new interpretation and reflection. What does this truth look like in practice? Where is it found? Who is a neighbor and in what neighborhood? “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell into the hands of robbers…”
 
Is there a word here for today? For you and me, for us together? What does this message have to offer when it is less clear who the robbers are, who the helpers are?
 
Enter into worship.
 
Readings: Amos 7:7-17 and Psalm 82 † Deuteronomy 30:9-14 and Psalm 25:1-10 † Colossians 1:1-14 † Luke 10:25-37
 
About the Art: Pascin, Jules, 1885-1930. Good Samaritan, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=56978 [retrieved June 28, 2022]. Original source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JulesPascin-1917-The_Good_Samaritan(Persons_in_Cuba).png.

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