YEAR OF MERCY

The Parable Of Good

Samaritan
Compassion of a stranger

Luke 12:27-37
The most important commandment
Love of God and love of neighbor are

necessary condition to inherit eternal life

Who is the neighbor people should love?
brother, acquaintance, a friend, a

stranger, or even enemy?

Can people consider ignore love go God

as their neighbor?
Jesus combines the law of major

commandments - love of neighbor in a way

that implies love of God.

The Priest, the Levite and the
Samaritan
Journey from Jerusalem to Jericho

Jerusalem 2461 feet above see level

Jericho 1312 feet below see level
it is necessary to go down from

Jerusalem to reach Jericho.

Can someone be in contact with a

dying man without risking defilement?

What the Priests and Levite avoid

doing is done by Samaritan an enemy

The love of God (keeping the law)

does not automatically guarantee the

love of neighbor.
The compassion to
care
The Samaritan had compassion (v.33)

Neighbor is the one showed mercy on him

(v. 37)
Jesus time, a person sentiments were Love-

compassion-mercy
Samaritan becomes involved in his

innermost self
True compassion is not a feeling but an

action that results in caring for the other.

The true compassion leads a person to

become involved in doing good and to

succeed, despite the cost of time and

money.
Mercy, not kinship, makes someone a

neighbor St. Ambrose

Jesus the Good Samaritan?
Who more than Jesus has pitied us,

who by the rulers of darkness were all

but put to death with many wounds,

fears, lusts, passions, pains deceits,

pleasure? Of these wounds the only

physician is Jesus, who cuts out the

passions thoroughly by the root

-Clement of Alexandria

Parable portrays everyones daily life

and transforms it from within: Love of

God cannot be separated from love

for neighbor.
The fulfillment of the
Law
The whole law is fulfilled in one word

You shall love your neighbor as

yourself (Gal5:14)
Christian freedom is absolute because it

is a gift from Christ : For freedom Christ

has set us free (Gal 5:1)

He who does not love his brother whom

he has seen, cannot love God whom he

has not seen (1 John 4:20)

We love, because he first loved us (1

Jn 4:19) To the extent that we have

received the love of God, to that extent

we are in a position to love our neighbor.

 Life Year of Mercy
Mercy - kind or forgiving

treatment of someone who

could be treated harshly,

kindness or help given to

people who are in a very bad or

desperate situation
Christ has willed that in her

prayer and life and action his

whole Church should be the

sign and instrument of the

forgiveness and reconciliation

 4Life Year of Mercy
Go to Confession regularly
Forgive those who are in need of your mercy.
Fulfill the conditions for plenary indulgences and

consider offering those indulgences for the Holy

Souls in Purgatory.
Goon a pilgrimage.
Practice the corporal and spiritual works of

mercy every day.

Place the Divine Mercy Image in a prominent

place in your home and venerate it daily.Click

here to get an image for your home.

Pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy daily, imploring

mercy "on us, and on the whole world."

Make the Stations of the Cross regularly,

especially at 3 p.m., the Hour of Great Mercy.

Pray Pope Francis'sYear of Mercy Prayer.
 4Life Year of Mercy
Christ's mercy should be directed

toward helping those millions of

women in our country who are

suffering in their hearts knowing they

have been instrumental in destroying

life that brought into existence.

We pray for them, console them, and

bring them to repentance.

Revive the realization that all

conceived children should be

safeguarded because, after all,

children are the hope of the future.

 4Life Year of Mercy
We must all care for life, cherish life,

with tenderness, warmth ... to give life

is to open our hearts, and to care for

life is to give oneself in tenderness and

warmth for others, to have concern in

our hearts for others. Caring for life

from the beginning to the end. What a

simple thing, what a beautiful thing...

Go forth and dont be

discouraged. Care for life. Its

worth it. -Pope Francis