The Good Samaritan

The law of love requires that we help our neighbor not merely because we know we should, but because of true compassion of our hearts. And this condemns our hearts.  So we are glad to know that our own Good Samaritan is none other than Jesus, who came to us in compassion and bound up our wounds of sin, gave us his mercy, and brought us to the inn, which is the Church. And he shall return for us. Therefore in the meantime we are to go and do likewise; learn to be like he is and to love as he does. Sermon for Trinity XIII. The video is here.