Charlotte Elia offers a reflection on Luke 10.
“We are called to love, and we are called to love in specific ways, through very specific tasks. There isn’t a compromise here. We can’t allow the words of Jesus to be watered down into meaningless platitudes meant to satisfy the tastes of those opposed to the gospel of love. We teach the Gospel. We preach the Gospel. We don’t compromise the Gospel. Where it is embraced, we make partners. We make disciples for the work of the Gospel. Where it is rejected, we… Well, we do nothing. We do nothing more. We’ve said what we’ve had to say. We’ve shared what we’ve been called to share, and if it’s rejected, we’re done. We can walk away. We can take our energy and our love and our hope elsewhere. We need not squander it or, worse yet, demean it, mangle it into something supposedly more suitable but also something entirely unrecognizable.”