The parable had its origin in the question of a doctor of the law, who asked him: Who is my neighbor? In order to make it clear to all, the Lord made various people pass by the wounded man: A priest was casually going down the same road; and seeing him, he passed by. Likewise a Levite, coming near that place, saw him and passed by. But a Samaritan on his way came to him, and when he saw him, he was moved with compassion, and he came and bound up his wounds, pouring oil and wine on them, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to the inn, and took care of him himself.
Jesus wants to teach us that our neighbor is everyone who is close to us - without distinction of race, political affinities, age... - and needs our help. The Master has given us an example of what we should do. This Samaritan (Christ) washed away our sins, suffered for us, carried the half-dead man, and brought him to the inn, that is, to the Church, which welcomes everyone and refuses help to no one, and to which Jesus summons us, saying, 'Come to me...'" (Mt 11:28). (Mt 11:28). Once he had brought him to the inn, he did not leave immediately, but stayed with him for a whole day, taking care of him day and night.... When the next morning he wanted to leave, he gave two denarii out of his good money and commissioned the innkeeper, the angels of his Church, to take care of him whom he had cared for in the anguish of this time, and to take him to heaven" (Mt 11:28).
The Lord encourages us to an effective and practical compassion, that puts the opportune remedy, before any person that we find wounded in the way of life. These wounds can be very diverse: wounds produced by loneliness, by lack of affection, by abandonment; needs of the body: hunger, clothing, house, work...; the deep wound of ignorance...; wounds in the soul produced by loneliness, by lack of affection, by abandonment. The wounds of the soul produced by sin, which the Church heals in the sacrament of Penance, for she "is the inn, placed on the road of life, which receives all those who arrive, weary from their journey or burdened with the sacks of their faults, where, leaving behind the burden of sins, the weary traveler rests and, after resting, is refreshed with wholesome nourishment ".
What good means are charity and compassion to identify ourselves with the Master! "In its many forms - material destitution, unjust oppression, physical and mental illness and, finally, death - human misery is the manifest sign of the congenital weakness in which man finds himself after the first sin and of the need for salvation. For this reason, human misery attracts the compassion of Christ the Savior, who wished to take it upon himself (Mt 8:17) and to identify himself with the least of his brethren (Mt 25:40; 45). It is also for this reason that those oppressed by misery are the object of a preferential love on the part of the Church, which, from her origins, and despite the failings of many of her members, has never ceased to work to relieve, defend and liberate them.
When we approach those in need, we must do so with effective charity and with our heart, making our own the misery we are trying to remedy. A classic Castilian author warns that "he who truly desires to succeed in pleasing God, should understand that one of the main things that serve for this purpose is the fulfillment of this commandment of love, provided that this love is not naked and dry, but accompanied by all the affections and works that are usually followed by true love, because otherwise it would not deserve the name of love... ". And then he adds: "under this name of love, among many other things, these six are contained in a special way, namely: to love, to counsel, to help, to suffer, to forgive and to edify "
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