https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/091023.cfm
I quote:
"You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
Love does no evil to the neighbor;
hence, love is the fulfillment of the law.
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Today I was asked how I would respond to those who are clearly guilty of offending their neighbour...especially me.
I spend time every day morning, and evening in silence contemplating my own behaviour, sufficient to ventilate within my conscious awareness all that would encourage me to judge another human person worthy of my judgement. Needless to say that in considering my own less than worthy behaviour, I would feel hypocritical to even consider judging another person knowing too well that my own shortcomings encourage me to remain silent when facing those who judge me unworthy.
And it is the Lord, it is Jesus, Who is my judge.
Therefore I will try always to think leniently of others, that He may judge me leniently, or rather not at all, since He says:
Judge not, and ye shall not be judged.~ Therese de Lisieux
I have learned, and am learning that my own shortcomings, my own easy willingness to judge others is best restrained within my thoughts, enabling me to understand that my own easy choice to judge my neighbours should be measured against my own inadequate behaviour.
3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
~ Matthew 7
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