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MESSAGE OF THE WEEK.

2019-07-14
No: 33

MESSAGE OF THE WEEK.
 

On this 15th Sunday of Ordinary time, we celebrate the God who is close to us both in His Word and in our neighbor. As the image of the unseen God, and as the Good Samaritan, Christ is close to us in all circumstances of life. So, the church urges us to acknowledge the presence of God both in his Word, and in our neighbor.
 

Our first reading is part of the farewell message, and final instruction of Moses to his people. This message underscores the importance of abiding with God through his Word. That is, living according to his commandments in the scriptures. Through this reading Moses reminds us that God is alive, active and ever close to us in his Words: “… For this Law is not beyond your strength or beyond your reach…”. In the second reading, Paul also reminds us of how close God is to us. Through His son Jesus Christ, (“the invisible image of the unseen Father”), God came to dwell among us. God spoke his Word, and He became real among us. So, Paul reminds us that God decided to dwell with us through Jesus Christ in other to reconcile us with himself.


Today?s gospel also presents to us another way through which God is close to us. That is, in our neighbor. As a humble master, he is always available to us in simple ways and things. He is close to us in the scriptures, in the poor, in the just, in the pious, in the marginalized, in the sick, and in the weak. Like the Good Samaritan, if we search for God in these, we will find Him. The good Samaritan saw God in the victim, and so was moved to help him.