Pope Francis鱿鱼视频app homily was a reflection taken from St Paul鱿鱼视频app teaching on mercy, forgiveness and the need to avoid judging others. He said the Lord speaks to us about the reward contained within this: do not judge and you will not be judged. Do not condemn and you will not be condemned.
Have the courage to acknowledge our own faults
鈥淏ut we can say: 鈥楽o, this is all fine, isn鈥檛 it?鈥� And each of us can say: 鈥榊es Father, this is all fine but how can it actually be done, where does one start with this?鈥櫶� And what鱿鱼视频app the first step for going along this path?鈥� 听We see that first step in today鱿鱼视频app first Reading, in the Gospel. The first step is to acknowledge our own faults. The courage to acknowledge this before accusing others.听 And Paul praises the Lord because he chose him and gives thanks because 鈥榟e has judged me trustworthy, even though I used to be a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent man.鈥� But this was mercy.鈥�
Beware of being hypocrites, from the Pope downwards
Quoting from Christ鱿鱼视频app words to take the log out of our own eye first, Pope Francis stressed that it is essential to acknowledge our own faults before we can see clearly enough 鈥榯o take the splinter out of our brother鱿鱼视频app eye.鈥�
鈥淎nd Jesus uses that word that he only uses with those who are two-faced, with two minds: 鈥楬ypocrites! Hypocrite. 听Men and women who can鈥檛 learn how to acknowledge their own faults become hypocrites. All of them? All of them: starting from the Pope downwards: all of them. If a person isn鈥檛 able to acknowledge his or her faults and then says, if it鱿鱼视频app necessary, who we should be telling things about other people, that person is not a Christian, is not part of this very beautiful work of reconciliation, peace-making, tenderness, goodness, forgiveness, generosity and mercy that Jesus Christ brought to us.鈥�
The Pope went on to urge us to stop ourselves in time when we are tempted to speak badly about others.
鈥淲hen we get tempted to talk to people about the faults of others, we must stop ourselves. And me? And have the courage that Paul had, here: 鈥業 used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, a violent man鈥欌�� 听But how many things can we say about ourselves? Let鱿鱼视频app refrain from comments about others and let鱿鱼视频app comment about ourselves. And this is the first step along this path of magnanimity. Because a person who can only see the splinters in the eyes of others, falls into pettiness: a petty mind, full of pettiness, full of chatter.鈥�
Pope Francis concluded his homily saying let us ask the Lord to give us the grace to follow Jesus鈥� advice to be generous with forgiveness and generous with mercy, adding that a person who has never spoken badly about others, should be canonized immediately.
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