This hit me in Mass this morning...the Gospel passage of the Good Samaratan. 

It has been commonplace for priests to turn this into a "love the foreigner" homily, recalling the history of the Assyrians conquests of the Samaritans, the intermarrying that followed, and the Jews.   

All good.

But I think Our Lord was teaching us "even more".   But it's also "less", less political, less "immigration" focused than that.

Our Lord expects us to love whoever we find along our path during the ordinary day.

We shouldn't take our eye so quickly to the political, to the abstract immigrant over there somewhere, but instead love generously the person who is making our sub at the sub shop.

Whoever we run across, here and now, in the ordinary of the day.