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James Martin, SJ
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What does Jesus say about #migrants? He doesn't say help the stranger only if it's risk free, or convenient, or the stranger has the right papers, or is from the same ethnic or religious group. No, we are meant to show mercy to the stranger regardless.
That's one of the main points of Jesus's Parable of the Good Samaritan. The Samaritan who helps the beaten man does so at considerable risk to himself: he was exposing himself to robbers and beatings on the "Road to Jericho," a notoriously dangerous road. But he helps him anyway.
And the way that we treat strangers will be one litmus test for entrance into heaven. Because the way we treat strangers (and by that the Bible means refugees, migrants and displaced persons, with or without "papers") will, says Jesus, determine our entrance into heaven (Mt. 25).
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Thread: Today, when ICE threatens to round up migrant families in the United States, Catholics worldwide are hearing Jesus's Parable of the Good Samaritan, from Luke's Gospel (10: 25-37). It is almost painfully relevant. You know the famous story but I want to highlight 3 things:
1) The Samaritan helped the stranger--a Jew, and therefore someone from a hated religious group--at great risk to himself. The Road to Jericho, which still exists, was a notoriously dangerous one in Jesus's day, filled with twists and turns, where bandits would lie in wait.
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