Neighbors, Charity, and What the Pope Said

I've been posting about neighbors and charity over the last couple months: and it's nice to see that I'm apparently on the right track.

I ran into this news item, almost a week old, on the EWTN.com website:

"Pope urges Christians to live with Christ's logic of charity"
EWTN News/CNA (July 11, 2010)

"In his first Angelus prayer from the papal summer residence of Castel Gandolfo, the Holy Father recalled the parable of the Good Samaritan. He said that the story from Luke's Gospel should lead us to change our thinking and living to Christ's logic, that of charity...."

"...He ... reflected on the question posed to Jesus by the scholar of the law who asked in today's Gospel reading what he should do to inherit eternal life. The Holy Father pointed out that, since the Lord knew the man was an expert in Sacred Scriptures, He invited the doctor to respond to the question himself.

"The expert, 'in fact, formulates (the answer) perfectly,' said the Pope, 'citing the two principal commandments: to love God with all your heart, all your mind and all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself.'

"And when Jesus responds to the scholar's question, 'And who is my neighbor?,' the Pope said, he does so 'with the famous parable of the "good Samaritan," to indicate that it is up to us to be a "neighbor" to whoever is in need of help.'

"This parable 'should lead us to transform our mentality according to the logic of Christ, which is the logic of charity: God is love and worshiping him means serving our brothers with sincere and generous love,'..."

The EWTN/CNA article included this video clip:

"The Pope: The Christian is 'a heart who sees' who is in need"

vatican, YouTube (July 11, 2010)
video, 1:17

"Pope Benedict XVI today celebrated his namesake, St Benedict of Nursia, as the "great patron" of his pontificate, saying the founder of Western monasticism and renewer of Western civilization was in his person the very image of incarnate teaching, who in no way could every teach differently from how he lived.

July 11th is the day on which the Church marks the great saint's liturgical memory...."

Sort-of-related posts:

• "Rio de Janeiro's Christ the Redeemer Statue, and Central Minnesota"
  (July 14, 2010)
• "Caritas in Veritate: Charity, Hungry Nations of the World, and the Catholic Church"
  (July 8, 2010)
• "Minnesota Bishops, Immigrants, Papers and Justice"
  (June 30, 2010)
• "Rules, the Catholic Church, Neighbors and Me"
  (June 18, 2010)
• "Work, 'Giving Back,' and a Saint"
  (July 7, 2010)
• "Charity Begins at Home: Where it Ends is Up to You"
  (February 10, 2010)

More:

• "ANGELUS 2010-07-11"
  vatican, YouTube (July 11, 2010)
  • video, 19:02