REFLECTION:
"Be merciful just as your heavenly Father is merciful”.
This line is Luke’s counterpart of Matthew’s, “Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.” Luke is basically saying that
the perfection of God consists in his being merciful. This is shown in many instances in Luke’s gospel: in welcoming back
the son who has been lost in the Parable of the Prodigal Son, in taking care of the enemy in the Parable of the Good Samaritan,
or in searching for the lost ones in the Parable of the Lost Sheep.
Having been created in the image of the Creator, we are reminded to grow in that very quality of our God. Our world is suffering.
There is plenty of hatred and violence all coming from the hearts of God’s children. We are invited to learn from our merciful Father
and to learn from Jesus who is gentle and humble of heart.
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