“The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve” (Mark 10:45).
In Luke’s Gospel, we read the story of a rich young man who mistakenly believed that not being a murderer or a thief or a liar or an adulterer or a a disrespectful son is the complete fulfillment of one’s duty to neighbor. That was his formula for life, but not God’s, as Jesus explained. Along with the duty not to do violence to your neighbor, God imposes the duty to bind up your neighbor ’s wounds. Along with the duty not to take from your neighbor, God imposes the duty to provide for your neighbor ’s
needs. And it is this Divine Formula of service — of binding the wounds and healing the hurts of others; of sharing blessings with others; of providing for the needs of others — that Jesus implored the rich young man to embrace. The real lesson, therefore, is this: only by losing ourselves in loving…
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