Good morning, good people of God.
May the Lord bless you with peace and health in the Holy Spirit.
It is 06th October 2025.
We reflect on Jonah 1:1–2:1, 11 and the Gospel of Luke 10:25-37.
Are we mean or magnanimous?
The Lord is to be found between life and living.
St. Bruno encourages us: “I have not been of any use to others, but I have at least been useful to myself by living for God.”
It is a lifelong endeavour to seek the Lord in the least, the ignored, the forgotten, the small, the vulnerable, and the broken people, and to celebrate them in the spotlight of creation.
We cannot continue hiding or running away from God and His plan like Jonah. Either we face it voluntarily and willingly, or the Lord will make us face it in His own way. The sea monster represents the chaos and confusion of our lives. It does not kill us but keeps us alive within its womb until God alone, who can tame it, delivers us.
Our life is not a rehearsal but a gift of the Lord, entrusted to us as a path to eternal life. The story of the Good Samaritan stresses the importance of love toward our fellow brethren beyond all barriers. Jesus invites us to answer the question: Who is my neighbour? We can either justify ourselves or act justly.
A priest, a Levite, and a Samaritan encountered the wounded man robbed and left half-dead. Jesus asks, “Which of these three, do you think, was a neighbour to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?” He said, “The one who showed him mercy.” Jesus replied, “Go and do likewise.” (Lk 10:36-37).
Our neighbour is the one who reflects the face of Christ and helps us to mirror Him more fully. Any person—or even any creature—abused by the selfishness of people is our neighbour who needs our attention, not for us to advertise our merits, but to genuinely show concern and compassion. We must not be selective or choosy in showing mercy. Without love and mercy, we cannot imitate Christ.
As Scripture reminds us: “Talk and behave like people who are going to be judged by the law of freedom, because there will be judgment without mercy for those who have not been merciful themselves; but the merciful need have no fear of judgement.” (James 2:12).
Let us ask the Lord for the courage to love people as they are, to correct our strange tendencies in showing love, and to avoid treating others as strangers, foreigners, or unwanted.
May God bless you.