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Lord My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul, 06 October 2025 Monday in the Twenty-Seventh Week in Ordinary Time, Year I Jonah 1:1-2:1-2, 11 <*((((>< + ><))))*> Luke 10:25-37
Lord Jesus Christ: with so many things going on in our country these days, I also ask like that scholar of the law, "who is my neighbor?" when we are so divided not really with politics and beliefs but with your truth; nobody is trustworthy among our leaders, even with those in media with many of them influencing us whom to believe and not; give us the courage and strength of that Samaritan traveller to dare cross the street, to get down from our vantage points to do something for those below, those in the margins, the poor often exploited by the corrupt and powerful; teach us, Jesus, "to go and do likewise" (Luke 10:37).
Then they said to one another, “Come, let us cast lots to find out on whose account we have met with misfortune” (Jonah 1:7).
Before we can "go and do likewise" like the good Samaritan, we have to be like Jonah and his companions in the ship first: to admit our own role, our own misgivings and failures why our country had turned into this mess; we have turned away from you, Lord Jesus; we have been so focused with our many pursuits that we have forgotten those around us like those crying in hunger and pain; we have always been on the go, riding high on our horses refusing to see those below us needing our compassion and presence. Show us, Jesus, where do we have "to go and do likewise." Amen.
