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11/22/2002 Entry: "The Good Samaritan"

An Owl Among Ruins posts a homily on "the Good samaritan" that will repay the time you spend with it:

We have tried many times to design a just society. We don’t know how. We have sociologists and politicians by the score, most of them people of integrity and good will, working on the problems of the poor, of health care, housing, crime, and all the rest. If the solution were to be found, you would think we would at least be getting nearer. Some of us in fact have been physically beaten by robbers; sadly enough, it isn’t a rare occurrence. But even if not beaten physically, we are beaten by the conditions of our lives, in which faith is difficult, and the meaning of charity is far from obvious. At the end of the day, we must admit we know not what we do. Here at last is where Gospel, Jesus’s voice, is heard. As the incompetent, the ignorant, the downcast, Jesus has prayed for us: “Father, forgive them; they know not what they do.”