{"id":8357,"date":"2015-03-02T21:26:28","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T02:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=8357"},"modified":"2015-03-02T21:26:28","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T02:26:28","slug":"becoming-merciful-like-god-through-judging-not-others-but-ourselves-second-monday-of-lent-march-2-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/becoming-merciful-like-god-through-judging-not-others-but-ourselves-second-monday-of-lent-march-2-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Becoming Merciful like God through Judging Not Others But Ourselves, Second Monday of Lent, March 2, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nSt. Bernadette Parish, Fall River, MA<br \/>\nMonday of the Second Week of Lent<br \/>\nMarch 2, 2015<br \/>\nDan 9:4-10, Ps 79, Lk 6:36-38<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to an audio recording of today&#8217;s homily, please click below:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-8357-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/3.2.15-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/3.2.15-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/3.2.15-Homily-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The following points were attempted in the homily:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As we&#8217;ve been pondering for the last 12 days, the whole purpose of Lent is to become like God the Father. Today Jesus begins the Gospel by encouraging and commanding us to be merciful as God the Father is merciful. God is merciful love (hesed) and he who is rich in mercy wants to help us to become not only rich through our receiving that mercy but richer still in our sharing it. But the path God choose to help us to become rich in mercy is at first glance surprising and paradoxical. Right after Jesus tells us to be merciful like his Father, he says, &#8220;Stop judging and you will not be judged.\u00a0Stop condemning and you will not be condemned.\u00a0Forgive and you will be forgiven,&#8221; before proceeding to summarize everything by saying, &#8220;For the measure with which you measure\u00a0will in return be measured out to you.\u201d If we&#8217;re merciful, most people interpret the text to say, we won&#8217;t judge other people. Mercy and judging seem to be polar opposites.<\/li>\n<li>But they&#8217;re not. The key is to understand whom we should be judging, because it is precisely through judging that we open ourselves up to God&#8217;s mercy and the transformation that always accompanies that gift. Pope Francis took up this theme in his homily this morning at the St. Martha Domus in the Vatican. He said that we can only progress on our Christian journey in life if we are capable of judging ourselves first. &#8220;We are all sinners,&#8221; he said, &#8220;not in theory but in reality,&#8221; but we need the ability to judge ourselves to be sinners in need of God&#8217;s mercy. We need to say, &#8220;I accuse myself!&#8221; We need to pray, as we do at the beginning of each Mass, &#8220;I have greatly sinned \u2026 by my own \u2026 most grievous fault.&#8221; Pope Francis says that many of us spend time judging others rather than accusing ourselves. &#8220;\u201cWe are all masters, professors of self-justification: \u2018No it wasn\u2019t me, it\u2019s not my fault.&#8217; \u2026 We all have an alibi to explain away our shortcomings, our sins, and we are often to put on a face that says &#8216;I do not know,&#8217; a face that says \u2018I didn\u2019t do it, maybe someone else did,\u2019 an innocent face. This is no way to lead a Christian life.&#8221; He continued, &#8220;It\u2019s easier to blame others&#8221;\u00a0but\u00a0something important\u00a0happens when\u00a0&#8220;we begin to look at the things we are capable of doing: at first we \u201cfeel bad, we feel disgusted,&#8221; yet this in turn &#8220;gives us peace and makes us healthy.\u201d\u00a0The Pope said, &#8220;If we do not learn this first step in life, we will never, never be able to take other steps on the road of our Christian life, of our spiritual life.\u00a0The first step is to judge ourselves. Without saying anything out loud. Between you and your conscience. Walking down the street, I pass by a prison and say: &#8216;Well, they deserve it&#8217; &#8211; Yet do you know that if it weren\u2019t for the grace of God you would be there? Did you ever think that you are capable of doing the things that they have done, even worse? This is what judging yourself means, not hiding from the roots of sin that are in all of us, the many things we are capable of doing, even if we cannot seen them.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Once we begin to judge ourselves as the sinners we are, we can open ourselves to God&#8217;s mercy because we&#8217;ll recognize how much and why we need it. C.S. Lewis once said that the two essential truths of Christianity are that we&#8217;re sinners and that Jesus has come to save us from our sins. We can&#8217;t appreciate God&#8217;s mercy unless we recognize how desperate we are for it. And once we recognize how much we need it, then we can be compassionate on others who need it to. The way we stop judging and condemning others is when we recognize that but for God&#8217;s grace we would be under the very same judgment and condemnation because we, too, are sinners who have murdered Christ through our sins just as much as others have.<\/li>\n<li>But while judging ourselves instead of others is the first step, it&#8217;s not the last. The second step is a capacity to do reparation for our sins and the sins of others. One of the greatest aspects of the Divine Mercy Devotion requested by Jesus through St. Faustina is that we beg God the Father for mercy &#8220;in expiation for our sins and those of the whole world.&#8221; We see through judging ourselves that we&#8217;re all in a similar boat and hence we pray for our sins and those of others. That&#8217;s what we see the Prophet Daniel and the Psalmist doing today. Daniel was a prophet in Babylon and was certainly not guilty of all of the sins that brought the people into exile. But yet he prayed in their name to the Lord with the first person plural. He was praying for his sins and everyone&#8217;s, because they were all contributing factors leading to the exile. He implored, &#8220;We have sinned, been wicked and done evil;\u00a0we have rebelled and departed from your commandments and your laws.\u00a0We have not obeyed your servants the prophets,\u00a0who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes,\u00a0our fathers, and all the people of the land.\u00a0Justice, O Lord, is on your side \u2014 [in other words, we have no excuses!] \u2014 \u00a0we are shamefaced even to this day:\u00a0we, the men of Judah, the residents of Jerusalem,\u00a0and all Israel, near and far,\u00a0in all the countries to which you have scattered them\u00a0because of their treachery toward you.\u00a0O Lord, we are shamefaced, like our kings, our princes, and our fathers,\u00a0for having sinned against you. \u2026 We\u00a0rebelled against you\u00a0and paid no heed to your command, O Lord, our God,\u00a0to live by the law you gave us through your servants the prophets.\u201d That was a forceful collective self-accusation. He wasn&#8217;t apologizing for the sins of &#8220;others&#8221; in the third person, but for all the sins, including himself among the sinners.<\/li>\n<li>But he didn&#8217;t lose hope because of those sins. That&#8217;s why he prayed, &#8220;But yours, O Lord, our God, are compassion and forgiveness!&#8221; God&#8217;s nature is to be merciful. And it was the same sentiment that led us to cry out with the Psalmist, &#8220;Lord, do not deal with us according to our sins.&#8221; We prayed in the verses of the Psalm, &#8220;Remember not against us the iniquities of the past;\u00a0may your compassion quickly come to us,\u00a0for we are brought very low.\u00a0Help us, O God our savior,\u00a0because of the glory of your name;\u00a0Deliver us and pardon our sins\u00a0for your name\u2019s sake.&#8221; Notice that there&#8217;s no sense of entitlement in this prayer. But we are asking God to forgive us because of his merciful and glorious name, he who is kind and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in love. We don&#8217;t deserve forgiveness, but God extends it nevertheless because that&#8217;s who he is.<\/li>\n<li>This judging of ourselves and praying in collective reparation are two great lessons for us to learn in Lent. We&#8217;re called sincerely to beat our breasts and come to confession, accusing ourselves, not excusing ourselves, of the ways by thought, word, deed and omission we have not lived in communion with God. And we&#8217;re called to do reparation for our and others&#8217; sins, because there&#8217;s much to repair in our families, parish, communities, nation and world. There is so much for which we need to say, &#8220;Sorry, Lord!&#8221; and &#8220;Do not treat us as our sins deserve,&#8221; the sins of abortion, the deconstruction of the family, hardness of heart toward Christ in the disguise of immigrants and the poor, taking the Lord for granted even on the Lord&#8217;s day, the murder of so many people for various reasons, and so many other grievous sins. We begin him to bring his compassion quickly to us because we have been brought very low.<\/li>\n<li>And God hears that prayer. Today at Mass he enfleshes his Mercy in the person of his Son, whom we&#8217;re about to receive. God the Father doesn&#8217;t treat us as our sins deserve, but treats us with the love he has for his Son who gave his life in justice and mercy to save our own.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The readings for today&#8217;s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Reading 1\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/daniel\/9:4\">DN 9:4B-10<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">\u201cLord, great and awesome God,<br \/>\nyou who keep your merciful covenant toward those who love you<br \/>\nand observe your commandments!<br \/>\nWe have sinned, been wicked and done evil;<br \/>\nwe have rebelled and departed from your commandments and your laws.<br \/>\nWe have not obeyed your servants the prophets,<br \/>\nwho spoke in your name to our kings, our princes,<br \/>\nour fathers, and all the people of the land.<br \/>\nJustice, O Lord, is on your side;<br \/>\nwe are shamefaced even to this day:<br \/>\nwe, the men of Judah, the residents of Jerusalem,<br \/>\nand all Israel, near and far,<br \/>\nin all the countries to which you have scattered them<br \/>\nbecause of their treachery toward you.<br \/>\nO LORD, we are shamefaced, like our kings, our princes, and our fathers,<br \/>\nfor having sinned against you.<br \/>\nBut yours, O Lord, our God, are compassion and forgiveness!<br \/>\nYet we rebelled against you<br \/>\nand paid no heed to your command, O LORD, our God,<br \/>\nto live by the law you gave us through your servants the prophets.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/79:8\">PS 79:8, 9, 11 AND 13<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (see 103:10a)\u00a0Lord, do not deal with us according to our sins.<br \/>\nRemember not against us the iniquities of the past;<br \/>\nmay your compassion quickly come to us,<br \/>\nfor we are brought very low.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Lord, do not deal with us according to our sins.<br \/>\nHelp us, O God our savior,<br \/>\nbecause of the glory of your name;<br \/>\nDeliver us and pardon our sins<br \/>\nfor your name\u2019s sake.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Lord, do not deal with us according to our sins.<br \/>\nLet the prisoners\u2019 sighing come before you;<br \/>\nwith your great power free those doomed to death.<br \/>\nThen we, your people and the sheep of your pasture,<br \/>\nwill give thanks to you forever;<br \/>\nthrough all generations we will declare your praise.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Lord, do not deal with us according to our sins.<\/p>\n<h4>Verse Before The Gospel\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/john\/6:63\">SEE JN 6:63C, 68C<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Your words, Lord, are Spirit and life;<br \/>\nyou have the words of everlasting life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Gospel\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/luke\/6:36\">LK 6:36-38<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Jesus said to his disciples:<br \/>\n\u201cBe merciful, just as your Father is merciful.\u201cStop judging and you will not be judged.<br \/>\nStop condemning and you will not be condemned.<br \/>\nForgive and you will be forgiven.<br \/>\nGive and gifts will be given to you;<br \/>\na good measure, packed together, shaken down, and overflowing,<br \/>\nwill be poured into your lap.<br \/>\nFor the measure with which you measure<br \/>\nwill in return be measured out to you.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/RJL-St.-Peters.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8312\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/RJL-St.-Peters.png?resize=300%2C237&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"RJL St. Peter's\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/RJL-St.-Peters.png?resize=300%2C237&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/RJL-St.-Peters.png?resize=1024%2C809&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/RJL-St.-Peters.png?w=1464&amp;ssl=1 1464w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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