Reflection for Monday 20th June 2022
12th Week in Ordinary Time
By
Fr. Aloysius Santiago sdb
Rector and Parish Priest, Bidar
Today's WORD of GOD
Matthew 7:1- 5
“Do not judge, or you too will be judged.* *For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
“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?* *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?* *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.
Today's Reflection
In Today’s Passage, Taken from the Sermon on the Mount, JESUS Condemns Our Careless, Malicious, & Rash Judgments about Others’ Feelings, Motives, Behaviour or Actions.
Reasons why We should Not Judge Others:
1) No One, Except GOD, is Good Enough, & only HE has the Right & Authority, to Judge Us, because only HE Sees the Whole Truth & only HE Can Read the Human Heart.
2) We Do Not See All the Facts or Circumstances, Nor the Power of the Temptation, Behind a Person’s Evil Deed.
3) We Have No Right to Judge Others because We Have the Same Faults as the Ones We are Judging & Often in a Higher Degree.
Remember JESUS' Funny Example of a Man with a Wooden Beam in His Eye Trying to Remove the Dust Particle from Another’s Eye.
St. Philip Neri Commented, Watching the Misbehavior of a Drunkard: “There Goes Philip but for the Grace of GOD.”
4) We are Often Prejudiced in Our Judgment of Others, & Total Fairness Cannot Be Expected from Us.
Life Message:
Let Us Leave the Judgment to GOD & Refrain from Being Critical & Judgmental.
Good morning
Have a beautiful day and an amazing week ahead.