From the responsorial psalm: “The works of his hands are faithful and just; sure are all his precepts, Reliable forever and ever, wrought in truth and equity. The Lord will remember his covenant for ever.”
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Lk 10:25-37)
“Which of these three, in your opinion, was neighbor to the robbers’ victim?” He answered, “The one who treated him with mercy.” Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.”
Jesus is asked by a scholar of the law, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” In response, Jesus asks him what is in the law and how he reads it. The scholar answers that it is to love God with all your heart, soul, strength, and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself. The scholar then presses further by asking, “And who is my neighbor?” In response, Jesus shares the Parable of the Good Samaritan. In telling it, Jesus teaches the scholar—and all of us—that a neighbor is one to whom we have the willingness to show compassion and mercy. Jesus asks the scholar a question that sends us out to be compassionate toward others. Out of love for eternal life with the Father, Jesus tells him, “Go and do likewise.” O clement, O loving, O sweet virgin Mary. Pray for us, O holy Mother of God that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
Pour forth, we beseech you, O Lord, your grace into our hearts, that we, to whom the Incarnation of Christ your Son was made known by the message of an Angel, may, through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, by his Passion and Cross be brought to the glory of his Resurrection. Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.