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Tuesday 24th Week
of OT
St. Luke Institute
September 17, 2013
RULES
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There are rules. There are protocols
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There is an order to things that have to be
followed if the world is going to work
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All well and good, but sometimes people are reduced
to robots in the process
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We are more than cogs in the machinery of
production
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We are more than a corporation's assets
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We are more than market shares and sales targets
we represent
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We are more than numbers on a graph or percentages
on a pie chart
LAYING
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Compassion is to recognize that we are more than
all of those things
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Compassion is to see beyond one's role and
recognize the feelings, the hopes, the hurts, the desire for meaning of those we
work and study with
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Jesus embodies such compassion
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In today's Gospel, he allows his heart to be
moved by the grief of the widow and acts beyond expectations and what would be
considered "reasonable" to help her
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LAYING ASIDE THE RULES +++++++++++++++++++
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Such great compassion enables us to forgive, to
re-create, to heal
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In the course of this day, you may be called to
look beyond a set of circumstances in order to realize the hurt and struggle
someone is experiencing
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Remember today's Gospel in such moments and act
with the compassion of Jesus
CONCLUSION
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And today we highlight Jesus’ care for the most
vulnerable in society – here a widow without children and so without means of
support
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And as Luke systematically connects the church’s
ministry to Jesus’ own mission, we have the evangelist’s mandate to embrace
compassionate ministry to the poor in Jesus’ name
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