May the Lord give you peace and health in the Holy Spirit.
It is 21st June 2021. We celebrate the memorial of St Aloysius Gonzaga, Religious. He is the patron of Catholic youth, teenagers, and Seminarians.
We reflect from Genesis 12:1-9 and the Gospel from Matthew 7:1-5.
When our life is full of hypocrisy and double standards, we rush to judge so rashly.
We mostly judge the other person with the things we are uncomfortable with in our personal life and the attitudes that we do not like to have it in ourselves. Hence, we better not judge. Because our judgement tells the world what we are struggling inside.
It is faith in God that offers the courage to see the better side of the others. More we criticise others, more shrunk within we become. We all need to travel to the unknown, unfamiliar, and new frontiers like Abram who listened to God. By listening to God constantly, we are preparing to travel with the others with whom we are not related, and friendly.
Cleaning of a community or a family or a workplace is possible when we have personal space cleared and made it clean. It is bit cloudy, confusing, confronting, colliding with the reality in front when we are not prepared to clean our shades and sights. “Why do you see the speck in your neighbour’s eye, but do not notice the log in your own eye?” (Mt.7:3)
So, we all ask whether we need to judge at all? We all can judge, and decide the merits, on the information and details in front with the measure we apply normally on ourselves. We need to shun and not attempt to judge and condemn the others on our limited perceptions and evaluations.
Intentions, motives, and the context are to be taken into consideration before we wish to engage in judging the details. Let us not label people and stigmatize them with our cruel and inhuman judgements. May the Lord give us the courage to see some good in others daily, and work on things we are happy with it in ourselves. May God bless you. Have a lovely day.