Vatican City, Jul 10, 2016 / 04:56 am
On Sunday Pope Francis said the parable of the Good Samaritan isn't just a nice passage to reflect on, but signifies a concrete choice we make in deciding how to live and treat those around us.
"The Good Samaritan indicates a lifestyle, the center of which is not ourselves, but others, with their difficulties, who we meet on our path and who challenge us," the Pope said July 10.
It's us who choose this lifestyle or choose to reject it, he said, explaining that the attitude of the Good Samaritan tests our faith, since faith without works "is dead."
"Let us ask ourselves: is our faith fertile? Does it produce good works? Or is it rather sterile, and so more dead than alive? Do I make neighbors, or do I just pass by?" Francis asked, adding that these questions would be good to ask ourselves often, since in the end "we will be judged on the works of mercy."