The
Gospel everywhere urges us to allow the irresistible tenderness of Christ to
invade our person and take over our every thought, feeling and action.
Realistically, however, none of us can by nature be as selfless as Christ, the
Good Samaritan who has only to glance at a wounded or needy person to shudder
with mercy. The problem is not so much that of willfully imposing on ourselves
a strict consistency between faith and action; it is more a matter of allowing
the power of the Christ, who has given himself to me with love, to have its
full effect in my person.
Photograph
by Charles O'Connor. Reflection by Father Simeon.
