PS Varlaam Ploieșteanul: Only our acts of charity are proof of true love for Godtranslated

"Only our deeds of love, charity and love towards our fellow men, are the proof of our true love towards God", emphasized Sunday the Most Reverend Father Varlaam Ploieșteanul, Patriarchal Vicar Bishop, at the Patriarchal Cathedral.

His Eminence explained the meanings of the Parable of the Good Samaritan, highlighting the connection between love for God and love for neighbor.

"The essence of the whole law lies in the love of God, which is our response, of people, to God's love for the world, for people."

The hierarch recalled that Christ the Redeemer, before His Passion, entrusted the disciples with a new commandment, by which the measure of neighborly love becomes the very sacrificial love of God towards people.

Who is our neighbor? The Most Reverend Father Varlaam Ploieșteanul highlighted the fact that, through the Parable of the Good Samaritan, the Savior overcomes the conception according to which the neighbor is only the one of the same race or of the same faith.

Referring to the attitude of the priest and the Levite, who carelessly passed by the wounded man, the hierarch emphasized "that those who were close to the wounded man...