Please join us for Hospitality in the Gathering Room on Saturday, August 2nd after the 5:00pm Mass and Sunday, August 3rd after the 8:30 and 11:00am masses. Get together with parishioners you haven’t seen for a while or meet new parishioners. Enjoy refreshments and light beverages. If you would like to donate any refreshments you may do so by contacting: Karen 215-334-4077 or Giovanna 215-626-7053 We are looking forward to seeing you and your families at our Hospitality Get Together!

The parable of the Good Samaritan is so familiar to us that we often see only one of its dimensions. The dimension we tend to focus on is its presentation of a model for us to imitate. Jesus finishes the parable by saying “Go and do likewise. “In that sense, it is a crystal-clear explanation of the great commandment, “love your neighbor as yourself.” If we strive to follow it, we will without a doubt live a worthy, meaningful, and fruitful life. Today the Church reminds us that we should be striving to follow it. But this parable also has another dimension. The Good Samaritan is a selfportrait of Jesus and what Jesus has done for us – for the human family as a whole, and for each of us individually. We were like the man left on the side of road to die. Each of us has been robbed of our original holiness by original sin. Our selfishness and sins, and the sins of others, have deeply wounded our souls. We lay on the side of life’s path in need of a Savior. We have been bruised and broken and wounded by life in a fallen world. In his incarnation, Jesus comes to us like the Good Samaritan. He is the merciful Lord who heals and restores us with the oil and wine of his sacraments, who pays for our salvation with his own sacrifice on the cross at Calvary, who entrusts the boundless riches of his grace to his own innkeeper, the Church, who in turn watches over our convalescence, our growth into Christian maturity, until Jesus will come again. If Jesus commands us to be Good Samaritans to one another, it’s only because he has walked the path ahead of us.

Please pray for our sick that they may receive God’s healing strength: Albert Ferranti, Marisa Della Pia, Dom Dinella, Sarah Wallace, Marie Devlin, James Curci, Susan and Frank Addis, Grace Jones, Brian Ligato, Danielle Peters, Marie and Hugh Quigley, Geraldine DiDonato, Gerri Liberato-Abbott, Louie DiBruno, Michael Cornaglia, Sr., Angel Scorza, Linda Sammaritano, Sister Peg, Stephanie Sinex, Shawn Keefe, Maria Dattilo, Ashleigh Leone, Fr. Casey, Rose Campolongo, Landon Reid, Annette Slattery, Anna Musolino, Joann Auld, Pat Kennedy, Sister Francine OSF, Constance DeMayo, Robert Federico, Tom Rucci, Diane Cellini, Dominick Condo, Leon Defulgentis, Anthony DiDonato, Robert & Assunta Nataloni, Bill DiMascio, Lucia Maria Cudemo, Chris Penrose, Joann Fontana, Gregory Lucia, Jackie DiStefano, Jeff Thomas, Jessica Lauria, Richard Graham, Karen Specht, Ed Specht, Annamarie Curci, Rose Candelora, Tommy Truong, Carol Mastropieri