Clothe yourself with Love Col. 3:14

THU EP Reflection 102220 (Luke 10:25-37) My best experience with the passage of the Good Samaritan came when I was living in my home country. A young American was CEO of a company I worked for at the time. He was preaching at our early morning devotion in Luke 10: 25-37. The most striking of it was, how he presented it to us. He explained how there was serious difficulties that existed between the Jews and Samaritans: They never mixed, they hated each other. Jesus was in the midst of that when someone asked him the question: who is my neighbor. His answer was the parable of the Good Samaritan. Since the Jews and Samaritans look the same to an untrained eye, especially if in Jesus story the victim of the robbery had no clothes and no speech, so an unconscious naked person could be either Jew or Samaritan. None could tell. From the perspective of a Jew, those from whom we expected help, didn’t help: A Priest, a Levite all passed by and didn’t help. Perhaps, they had valid reasons ...

  WED EP Reflection 102120 (Ps 38, Luke 10: 17-24) Is confession becoming a lost art? That is the question asked by Forward day by day devotion today. Do you confess your sins? Is confessing our sins important? I want to bring out the idea that we are all part of the catholic church universal. Confession is not the tradition that only belong to the Roman Catholic Church, it is the [universal] early church’s tradition [1] . When one reads Ps 38, one senses the need for confession: “ O Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger; do not punish me in your wrath… For my iniquities overwhelm me; like a heavy burden they are too much for me to bear…My wounds stink and fester by reason of my foolishness… I am utterly bowed down and prostrate; I go about in mourning all the day long… My loins are filled with searing pain; there is no health in my body. I am utterly numb and crushed; I wail, because of the groaning of my heart .” This seems to be an experience of someone in deep trouble. Som...