November 11, 2024 Monday of the Thirty-second Week in Ordinary Time
Memorial of Saint Martin of Tours, Bishop
Daily Readings: Titus 1:1-9; Luke 17:1-6
We very well know that when we do something bad ourselves, then we have sinned. Want we may not know or realize is that, we may be guilty of causing someone to sin. The Gospel today warns us against causing someone to sin. When we become the reason for someone to do bad, we have a big accountability for this.
We are accountable for each other so we are to be responsible for our actions such not to cause someone to sin. This speaks of our connectedness to each other, our mission to one another. We have been called to care for each other.
Parents are to be responsible parents making sure that they bring up children with great fear of the Lord. Friends are to influence each other to be good and not the other way around. The list goes on with every role that we play in life.
As equally important is the call to rebuke, but not to judge, and forgive others if they have sinned just as the Father forgives us each time we sin and repent. Not rebuking our brothers and sisters when they sin is not helping them grow in Christian maturity.
While it is easier not to dip our fingers into other people’s affair, doing so is not living our Christian call to care for the souls of other people. Rebuking is pointing out the wrong of the other person and doing this out of love and concern.
Among the three, calls of the Gospel today, forgiving may be the hardest thing to do. Don’t we always focus on the pain that we experience and the trouble done to us? When we dwell on these, indeed, forgiving becomes impossible for us to do.
Call to Action for Catholic Living: But to someone who has faith, all these become possible for nothing is impossible to someone who allows God to work in him and through him.
May we be willing to go out of our comfort zones to care for the health of the souls of others because this is not only a suggestion to us but a command for us to observe and live by.
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