--- title: Daily Readings Reflection for 7/11/10 description: Daily Readings Reflection for 7/11/10 --- [![catholic-mom-logo-v2](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/images/catholic-mom-logo-v2.svg "catholic-mom-logo-v2")](https://www.catholicmom.com/) [![facebook](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-facebook.svg)](http://www.facebook.com/CatholicMomCommunity) [![twitter](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-twitter.svg)](http://twitter.com/CatholicMomCom) [![instagram](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-instagram.svg)](http://instagram.com/catholicmomcommunity) [![youtube](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-youtube.svg)](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAuUqHCVPDzyMgSMaMZxxug?view_as=subscriber) [![search-icon](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/search-icon.svg)](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/2010/07/11/daily-readings-reflection-for-71110#) # Daily Readings Reflection for 7/11/10 Jul 11, 2010 9:00:10 AM  |  by [Guest](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/guest) Reflection on Today’s Daily Readings by Fr. Bertrand Buby, SM [Today’s Readings](http://www.usccb.org/nab/) Scripture: Lectionary for C cycle # 106. 15th Sun.  Deuteronomy 30:10-14. Psalm 69:14.17.30-31.33-34.36.37  Colossians 1:15-20. Luke 10:25-37: Luke is the Evangelist of the Parables of Compassion. We meditate and reflect on the parable of the Good Samaritan this Sunday.  We identify so closely with some of the parables that we actually think of them as historical events.  They are not that but the thought does motivate us to be doers of the word and not simply those who listen to Jesus.  His mother Mary always says "Do whatever he tells you." This is the spirit of a believing Jewish mother who wants action not simply listening to her son. The point of view of a parable is to get us to think about something that will help us learn from Jesus. We are to put into practice what we learn. In the Parable of the Good Samaritan certainly compassion is one of its focal points, but the context will help us too.  We have a lawyer (scribe or scholar of the Torah) approaching Jesus and asking what he must do to acquire eternal life. He therefore is a searching Pharisee who believes in life after death.  He asks Jesus the question and Jesus asks him "What is written in the Law (Torah)? He answers with something the he knew well, namely, the beautiful confession of faith expected from a Mosaic scholar: " You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself." In reading a more positive attitude on the part of the lawyer is possible and several English translations lead us along those lines, for example, "But because he wished to justify himself... or the man was anxious to justify himsel" (New American Bible, and New Jerusalem Bible).  To justify himself can also mean that the person was searching how to be a tsadiq (an honest and just person) or one who want to pursue holiness.  Lawyers have to be given credit for asking the right questions and for giving the correct answer. He did this. Now it is Jesus' turn to help him "justify" himself and not try to trump Jesus which he may not have intended. Jesus' parable is striking and colorful. It is easy to imagine the scene and to be moved to compassion with the Samaritan as it reaches its apex.  The lawyer did this as he again answers Jesus correctly. Jesus, as usual, has the last word and tells the scholar or scribe or lawyer, "Go and do the same (as the Samaritan did) yourself.  This implies that such "doing" would enable the lawyer to inherit eternal life. Looking at the parable within such a positive way of describing the lawyer enables us not to pass judgment on a Pharisee (unfortunately, the Scriptures do this too often from a Christian bias) but to give credit to someone who though very clever and smart was answering the questions of Jesus correctly and undoubtedly was led to put the interpretation of the most sacred part of his Law or Instruction (Torah) into action. Jesus has shown him that he has to reach out with loving compassion even toward a stranger and a religious "enemy" who did not believe what he believed.  He had to move himself to think outside the box of just citing Scripture as some of us are wont to do, but as actually putting the Torah's greatest commandment into action. We may ask ourselves am I a good Samaritan?  Am I honest in what I question the Lord about?  Do I reach out to someone who does not share the same beliefs as I do?  Or am I looking for a way to test them by my questions? Perhaps, the Good Samaritan Parable is one that could be used in ecumenical dialog to the benefit of both or many with differing religious persuasions. 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