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October 11th: Memorial of Saint John XXIII, pope
Gospel text
Lk 10:25-37
Lk 10:25-37
There was a scholar of the law who stood up to test Jesus and said, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?” He said in reply, “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your being, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” He replied to him, “You have answered correctly; do this and you will live.”
Gospel's Commentary
Today we celebrate the feast of Saint John XXIII, the “Good Pope”. His life was a long journey starting from the simplicity of his peasant family: seminary student, priest, episcopal secretary, spiritual director and professor of church history in the seminary, diplomat, cardinal, Nuncio of Pope Pius XII in France, Pope and initiator of the Second Vatican Council. Along this path, he was mainly a shepherd according to the heart of God, who smells of sheep. The person of Saint John XXIII is an excellent model for us. He saw these forgotten brothers not like outcasts, but simply as brothers.
—He always said: "Let us approach each other, know each other, love each other, and then we will answer the prayer of Jesus: let us all be one."