LIVE IT TODAY: Monday, October 6, 2025
You are capable of a love that transcends all prejudice—a love that heals. My Spirit in you is stronger than every lie that divides.
LIVE IT TODAY: Monday, October 6, 2025
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GOD’S DECLARATION TO YOU TODAY
You are capable of a love that transcends all prejudice—a love that heals. My Spirit in you is stronger than every lie that divides.
INVOCATION
Come, Holy Spirit! Through the intercession of Our Blessed Mother Mary, open my heart to hear and receive all that You desire for me. Draw me ever more deeply into the Love and Life of the Blessed Trinity!
GOSPEL | Luke 10:25-37
There was a scholar of the law who stood up to test Jesus and said,
“Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
Jesus said to him, “What is written in the law?
How do you read it?”
He said in reply,
“You shall love the Lord, your God,
with all your heart,
with all your being,
with all your strength,
and with all your mind,
and your neighbor as yourself.”
He replied to him, “You have answered correctly;
do this and you will live.”
But because he wished to justify himself, he said to Jesus,
“And who is my neighbor?”
Jesus replied,
“A man fell victim to robbers
as he went down from Jerusalem to Jericho.
They stripped and beat him and went off leaving him half-dead.
A priest happened to be going down that road,
but when he saw him, he passed by on the opposite side.
Likewise a Levite came to the place,
and when he saw him, he passed by on the opposite side.
But a Samaritan traveler who came upon him
was moved with compassion at the sight.
He approached the victim,
poured oil and wine over his wounds and bandaged them.
Then he lifted him up on his own animal,
took him to an inn, and cared for him.
The next day he took out two silver coins
and gave them to the innkeeper with the instruction,
‘Take care of him.
If you spend more than what I have given you,
I shall repay you on my way back.’
Which of these three, in your opinion,
was neighbor to the robbers’ victim?”
He answered, “The one who treated him with mercy.”
Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.”
EVERY DAY QUESTION
What struck you? Challenged you? Inspired you? What questions did it raise?
GOING DEEPER
True religion is measured by mercy.
The scholar’s question sounds noble: “What must I do to inherit eternal life?” But beneath it is a trap—he wants to test, not to trust. He knows the Law, can recite the Shema, can debate the prophets. Yet he seeks limits: “Who is my neighbor?” In other words—how far must love go?
Jesus answers not with theory but with a story that shatters all boundaries. The Samaritan—the cultural enemy of Israel—becomes the image of divine compassion. In Greek, splagchnizomai, “moved with compassion,” literally means to be stirred in one’s gut. The Samaritan doesn’t calculate worthiness or risk. He is moved and acts. Love here is not abstract—it is costly, embodied, and interruptive.
The priest and Levite represent piety without mercy, ritual without relationship. They were not villains but respectable men obeying purity laws. Yet their fear of contamination outweighed their call to compassion. How often in our own homes does religion stop short at convenience—when mercy would require our time, our comfort, our pride?
The road from Jerusalem to Jericho descends steeply, winding through desert ravines—an image of human life itself, where people are stripped and left half-dead by sin, shame, and neglect. Christ Himself is the true Samaritan who comes down that road, binds our wounds with oil and wine—the sacraments—and entrusts us to the inn of His Church until His return.
And now He commands us: Go and do likewise. The Church’s mission begins not in argument, but in accompaniment; not in guarding purity from the wounded, but in letting mercy make us pure. Families, this begins at home. The Jericho road may look like your kitchen table, your child’s anxiety, your spouse’s weariness, your neighbor’s loneliness. Mercy that costs nothing is not mercy at all.
Parents, teach your children to see the wounded and stop. Let your home become the inn of the Good Samaritan. Pray over each of them by name, asking the Spirit to stir their hearts with compassion that acts, heals, and loves without boundaries.
“Charity is the form of all the virtues. It binds everything together in perfect harmony.” (CCC 1827)
LIFE APPLICATION QUESTIONS
Mercy in Motion: Where is God calling you to stop and act with compassion instead of passing by?
Boundaries of Love: Who in your life do you struggle to see as “neighbor,” and how can mercy change that?
The Road Home: How can your family become more like the inn of the Good Samaritan this week?
FAMILY LIVE IT
Make some time today to gather together and, going around, name one person who might feel “wounded” or left out—someone you can reach out to this week.
After sharing, each family member should pray over another by name: Lord Jesus, pour out Your grace so that [Name] may know Your deep love personally. Free [Name] from the lie that mercy is weakness. Strengthen [Name] to stop for the wounded, to forgive quickly, and to love generously as You love us.
DAILY PARENT & GRANDPARENT BLESSING
LORD JESUS CHRIST, let Your holy anointing be upon each of our children, grandchildren, and godchildren this day and week, including all to whom they are called in vocation, and all future generations! In Your Sacred Name we claim them for You! We renounce all whispers, lies, and influences of the Enemy! We pray right now that each know Your loving Presence, be forged in virtue, and be flooded with an abundance of Your Holy Spirit to live fully their identity and mission in You now and through all eternity, through the intercession of our Blessed Mother! Amen.
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GOING VERTICAL
“Be still and know that I am God.” Psalm 46:10
Just as the vertical beam upholds the horizontal beam of the Cross, so too does undistracted, dedicated daily turning to God as our lifeblood uphold and strengthen every part of life. Start with just three minutes. Wait patiently for the breakthrough beyond the noise. Let Him speak.
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