Tag Archives: Luke 10:25-37

At the intersection, revisited

Posted on July 10, 2022 by Rosalind C Hughes

Listening to this morning’s Gospel of the parable of the Good Samaritan, envisioning the steep and scary road from Jerusalem down to Jericho, I was moved to revisit also the intersection referenced in yesterday’s prayer poem, to seek hope in the mercy that Jesus related. Where is our mercy? Where is our hope? Continue reading →

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Goose

Posted on June 17, 2022 by Rosalind C Hughes

I knew that just because I was inadequate to the task, that did not let me off the hook for doing what I could to try to relieve the suffering of another creature. Seeing his pain made me, in some obscure way, responsible for his healing. Continue reading →

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Year C Proper 10: who is my neighbour? (read: which lives matter?)

Posted on July 10, 2016 by Rosalind C Hughes

It’s not a pretty story about being kind to people. Put it back into its context, in which Jesus is asked the question, not by a devoted disciple seeking enlightenment, but by a cynic trying to trip him up, looking … Continue reading →

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The business traveller

Posted on July 5, 2016 by Rosalind C Hughes

After the incident; forever after as he travelled from city to stone city, he would look across the crowd, scanning the horizon and its fall, not for danger – he never saw the robbers coming, never would – blissfully ignorant, … Continue reading →

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