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Feed on Christ, and then go and live your life, and it is Christ in you that lives your life, that helps the poor, that tells the truth, that fights the battle, and that wins the crown.
- Philips Brooks
(How will you "feed on Christ" this day?)
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1 Cor 9:16-19, 22b-27; Ps 84:3, 4, 5-6, 12
Lk
6:39-42
Jesus told his disciples a parable: “Can a blind person guide a blind person? Will not both fall into a pit? No disciple is superior to the teacher; but when fully trained, every disciple will be like his teacher. Why do you
notice the splinter in your brother’s eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own? How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me remove that splinter in your eye,’ when you do not even notice the wooden beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! Remove the wooden beam from your eye first; then you will see clearly to remove the splinter in your brother’s
eye.”
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Luke 6:39-42 (Do not judge.)
Luke’s sermon on the plain resembles Matthew’s Sermon on the Mount because both include a collection of sayings and teachings of Jesus. Today’s reading warns us against limiting our relationships with
others by judging them harshly.
* What is the difference between forming an impression or opinion about a person and judging him or her?
* What kinds of judgments are explicit and implicit in racism, sexism, and ageism? Are you free from these shackles?
* Pray for the
grace to be more open to the gifts that other people are.
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The Way of Perfection, by Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
Speaks of the fear of God and of how we must keep ourselves from venial sins.
Another source of harm is this: we may judge others unfavourably, though they may be holier than ourselves, because they do not walk as we do, but, in order to profit their neighbours, talk freely and without
restraint. You think such people are imperfect; and if they are good and yet at the same time of a lively disposition, you think them dissolute. This is especially true of those of us who are unlearned and are not sure what we can speak about without committing sin. It is a very dangerous state of mind, leading to great uneasiness and to continual temptation, because it is unfair to our neighbour. It is very wrong to think that everyone who does not follow in your own timorous footsteps has
something the matter with her. Another danger is that, when it is your duty to speak, and right that you should speak, you may not dare to do so lest you say too much and may perhaps speak well of things that you ought to hate.
- Chapter 41 (Keep in mind that she is writing to
sisters in a cloistered contemplative order.)
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