The Question of the Week is based on the upcoming Sunday readings. It serves as a topic for reflection to put the Bible reading in touch with your life and today’s issues. By putting the question on the parish website and into the bulletin each week Blessed Sacrament hopes to encourage a parish-wide conversation based on the current week’s Scripture readings. Use the question as a starting point for prayer and discussion at home, with your family, at the beginning of parish meetings, on your own in the car or whenever you want to be in touch with God’s Word to us and be part of the larger parish community.

This coming Sunday’s Scripture readings, on which the question is based, can be found on the web at the  United States Conference of Catholic Bishops web site. 

In the Gospel readings for Sunday, July 11, (Luke 10:25-37), Jesus is asked who are we to treat with compassion as a neighbor. His story of the Good Samaritan turns the question around saying that to treat another with compassion makes us the neighbor, the loving person.

Next week’s question is:

“Where in your life are you being asked to be compassionate?”