Nairobi, 22 January, 2024 / 9:00 pm (ACI Africa).
The representative of the Holy Father in Kenya has urged Christians to imitate the person of Jesus Christ in their actions and to practice love in the example of the Good Samaritan.
In his address to participants in the Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast 2024 that members of the Kenya Christian Professionals Forum (KCPF) organized on January 20 to mark the annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (WPCU), Archbishop Bert van Megen described the love of God for us as “a love of loyalty and commitment”, which requires that we respond with acts of love.
“Christians are called to act like Christ and love like the Good Samaritan,” Archbishop van Megen said during the event that was held at Consolata Shrine Westlands in Kenya’s Archdiocese of Nairobi.
The Nairobi-based Vatican diplomat, who also represents the Holy Father in South Sudan used personalities in the parable of the Good Samaritan as told by Jesus Christ in the Gospel of Luke to caution against the tendency to discriminate against others, whatever the “many reasons”.
Like the Jewish Priest and the Levite who left the wounded traveller on the roadside because they “had many reasons, even based on the Law of Moses not to touch the man who was left for dead on the road,” the Dutch-born Apostolic Nuncio said, “we leaders of different churches fix on our theological differences and canonical challenges.”
