The Merciful Samaritan – Metropolitan of Strumica Nahum
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Children, you have heard today’s gospel reading (Luke 10: 25-37).
We are all guests in this world, some people more – some people less, are wounded by demons – thieves, and placed by the Merciful Samaritan – Christ, for treatment in the inn – the Church. The innkeeper is the Episcope.
The Merciful Samaritan – Christ leaves everything that the innkeeper needs in order to take care and heal all those whose hearts and souls, even bodies, are wounded by the demonic attack.
The God-Man Christ left to the clergy a personal example, and such inexhaustible grace that the wounded guest could never spend more than that. The promise of a surcharge applies only to dispirited innkeepers. Therefore, the innkeeper can only conscientiously and humbly perform the work for which he has been paid in advance.
If he finishes the work as a child of God – and not as a hired worker – spending himself even “more than what has been paid to him”, blessed is such an innkeeper who will make God his “debtor”. God will make him His son by grace, and any other surcharge is no longer important at all …
Most-Holy Theotokos, save us!
Metropolitan Nahum of Strumica
(29.11.2020 17:01)
