Monday, October 24, 2011

Sermon in a Bottle

30th Sunday in Ordinary Time - A.  "Love your neighbor as yourself."

I love this gospel passage, but I hate preaching it.  How do you top Luke's sermon on it, the parable of the Good Samaritan?  My usual course is to tell stories (which I have stolen from other preachers).  This Sunday my story basket was empty.  So I fell back on repeating the Corporal and Spiritual Works of mercy.  I added one to each:  support institutions of charity and justice to help bodily needs, and listen attentively and fully to respond to the emptiness of another's spirit. 

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