Have we been asked to help out but have held back?

Fr Peter reflects on the parable of the Good Samaritan:Have we been asked to help out but have held back? Reasons could include fear, uncertainty, inconvenience, resistance because of prejudice, hatred or insecurity. Like the priest and the Levite, who failed to help because of ritual restriction or perhaps fear of inconvenience when going out of the way to help or even fear of uncertainty, was it a robber pretending to be injured?When we fail to be charitable, we fail to follow Jesus. Contrast them with the Good Samaritan who worked out of his goodness, went out of his sinfulness, saw the injured man’s need and reached out. Are we like the priest and Levite? Or the Samaritan? What can we do to change that? To do that we have to be more Christ-like, get out of the smallness of our being, to grow into the bigness of God. Let us love our neighbour and become the Good Samaritan.- Sunday Homily by Fr Peter Wee, C.Ss.R. (13 July 2025)