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Sacramental theology and apostolic tradition
What does the Church teach?
The Good Samaritan parable grounds Catholic social teaching: love of neighbor is inseparable from love of God, and it demands concrete action for the marginalized. The Samaritan is Christ; the inn is the Church; the oil and wine are sacraments.
The altar sends you to the road
Eucharist empowers mercy
The suffering neighbor is Christ in distressing disguise
The Jericho road was notoriously dangerous—17 miles of descent
Priests could not touch corpses without defilement
Samaritans and Jews had centuries of hostility
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