Promoting His Love to the Broken
Gospel Reflection—Friday of the Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time, September 12, 2025
This reading from Luke’s Gospel can remind us all of the fact that the Church is meant to be a hospital for sinners. None of us are meant to be perfect; in fact, none of us can be perfect, which is exactly why Christ needed to save us from our sins to begin with. If everything was always going well, we wouldn’t need God. Our brokenness reminds us of our need for dependence on our Lord. Our brokenness helps his love shine through.
Through our brokenness, we are able to help others see the love of God. When we experience hardships ourselves, we gain knowledge about how to be there for others when they experience similar feelings. When someone makes a mistake, we are not to put them down and berate them for their errors; rather, we are called to show them the same love that God showed us when we were down. God saved humanity from eternal damnation; we may not like everyone we encounter, but we are called to love them.
It is all too often that today, as Christians, we expect each other to be perfect; we expect those who follow Christ to act holy in all they do. So, when a Christian does something that isn’t the most loving, it causes some to think that all Christians are hypocritical. It is important to educate others on the fact that there is a reason Christ came to Earth: because we aren’t perfect. We wouldn’t need a Savior if we were. We need to embrace the love of Christ, letting others know that they do not have to be perfect to follow him; none of us are, but he accepts us as we are.