15th Sunday. C. 2025

15^th Sunday. C. 2025

Deuteronomy 30:10-14

Psl. 19:

Colossions 1:15-20

Luke 10:25-37

Both the First reading and the Gospel’s direct us to God’s Law of Love.

The purpose of the Law of God is the good life. A life of understanding. A life of beauty. Fullness of life. Eternal life. Followers of Mary’s Baby boy, follow him because he is the promise of this good life. This connected life. A life of beauty. Abundant life. Eternal life.

Such a life is the application of a love purified by dying and brought to Resurrection.

The witness of the saintly six African Americans is inspiration for this good life. Life of enlightenment. Life of beauty, the fullness of life.  On the walls of this church we have their pictures and testimony: Venerable Julia Greeley. Venerable Sister Henriette DeLille. Venerable Pierre Toussaint. Venerable Mother Mary Lange. Venerable Augustus Tolton. Servant of God Sister Thea Bowman.

These saintly Six applied love purified by suffering and brought to the Resurrection.

In an historical  embraced of enslavement and the twenty century, these six gave the testimony of their lives as America’s “good Samaritans.” Treating with forgiving compassion a nation and a church that robbed them of land, friends, and even life because in a Jew named Yeshua, they found the good life. A life of meaning. A life of beauty. Fullness of life. Eternal life.

In the dark time that now embraces We the People: A time of, “who is my neighbor?” A time that puts the followers of Jesus to the test with the question, “Who will be a good neighbor?” 

This time of darkness that seeks to justify itself without mercy, without the law of Love, and without the reconciliation of the crucified body of Christ  -We the people need the testimony of the saintly Six! 

With all their heart, with all their being, with all their strength, with all their mind and with their blues black and beaten bodies, they loved the Lord Our God, and they loved We the People.

From the Law of Moses to the Law of the young lawyer in the Gospel, to the Law of Jesus, to God’s Law written in our hearts, we followers of Jesus are being tested: “Who will be a good neighbor” to those who are victims of the lawless?

The Bible teaches: In Christ, the fullness of God was pleased to dwell. Through the eucharist Christ shares with you and me the fullness of the good life. An enlightened Life. A life of beauty. Abundant life and through death, Life Eternal.