Monday of the Fifth Week of Lent (March 30, 2009)
We are all guilty of throwing stones. We are all guilty of judging others. We are all guilty of accusing others, sometimes unjustly. Today’s reading is addressed to each one of us.
How many times do we talk bad about others? Gossip is a serious sin. Even if the other person does not know that we are talking about him or her and we think what we say cannot hurt them, we are still sinning. It is none of our business what other people do and how they act. If we truly love them, we may talk to them in a loving way because we care, but if we are going to talk about them on their backs or if we are going to accuse them in a mean way, it is better to keep our mouths shut. The tongue is a very dangerous weapon, which can easily cause us to sin. We need to learn to keep it under control.
Sometimes we may find ourselves in the receiving end. We may be the ones that are being hit with the stones. When that happens we may feel angry or hurt, especially if we are innocent of what we are being accused. We need to know that Jesus is the only one that we need to worry about. If we are innocent, He knows it and He embraces us. If we are guilty, it does not matter if the whole world judges us. If we ask Jesus for forgiveness, He will forgive us. Yesterday in mass the priest said a sentence that stayed with me: “Jesus loves us unconditionally, forgives us completely and we are never alone.” When we go to confession, we are forgiven completely. We do not need to continue carrying all that baggage with us. He has forgiven us, COMPLETELY, because He loves us so much that He gave His life for us… and He is always with us. We are never alone.
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