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Clear motives and clear purposetranslated

November 14, 2026 · 1 min read

Her written sermon for Luke 8 Sunday, November 15, 2026, was published by the Holy Diocese of Maroneia and Komotini, in which she interprets the deeper meaning of the parable of the Good Samaritan. The sermon in detail:

A young man who presents himself as an interpreter of the Mosaic law provides the occasion for today's parable of the Good Samaritan. Wishing to draw Christ into contradictions, he asks some questions with external respect. When you question me, Christ forces him to answer on his own, it is revealed that he was not asking out of genuine interest, but out of ulterior motive.

Christ uses this opportunity of human bad faith and mentions today's parable, in which a traveler descends from Jerusalem to Jericho and falls into the hands of robbers, who, after robbing him, mistreated him, filled him with wounds and abandoned him. half dead The Fathers of the Church recognize in the stricken and half-dead traveler the entirety of humanity, which, falling victim to the devil, descended from the Paradise of suffering, into the arena of present life, occupied by the first beauty of God's very good creation,...

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