Who stops in the face of human suffering?translated

Sotirios Theologu, Master's Student of Theology A.U.Th.

We live in a society with a lot of information, a lot of images, a lot of information and hundreds of news about people. How many times do we not hear on TV or read on the Internet about the pain of people? Someone loses their home, someone else loses their job, someone doesn't have a plate of food to eat.

And us? We who are in the other's pain?

We have become familiar with pain and misery and have grown indifferent to our fellow man. It is very easy to see the pain of another and very difficult to stop in front of it.

And we come to the gospel narrative, which is, perhaps, known to all of us.

A lawyer approaches and asks Christ what he must do to gain eternal life and Christ asks him the question how does he read the law? "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself" was the lawyer's response. In order to justify, however, Christ asks himself again who the neighbor is, to answer with the well-known parable of the Good...