Vatican City, Oct 7, 2013 / 12:34 pm
Reflecting on the story of the Good Samaritan, Pope Francis said in his homily at Mass today that we must be open to allowing God to intervene in our lives, leading us to deviate from our own arrangements.
"I say to myself, and I say to you: do we let God write our lives? Or do we want to do the writing ourselves?" Pope Francis asked, according to Vatican Radio.
"Be docile to the Word of God … have the capacity to hear his voice and to listen to it."
In his Oct. 7 homily at the chapel of the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta, Pope Francis discussed the story of Jonah fleeing from God, as well as that of the priest and Levite who passed by a half-dead man on the road, using them to demonstrate both direct and "sophisticated" ways of fleeing from God.