June 22 - Monday
Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Sts. John Fisher, Bishop,
and Thomas
More, Martyrs
Gospel: Matthew 7:1-5
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Today’s Gospel
is about the danger of confident judgment: “Why do you notice the splinter in
your brother’s eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own?” Jesus
isn’t forbidding all discernment; He’s exposing how easily we magnify someone
else’s small fault while staying blind to our own much larger one.
We do this
constantly. We’re quick to criticize a coworker’s mistake while quietly
excusing our own. We judge a stranger’s parenting from one glimpse while
knowing every hidden reason behind our own shortcuts. The plank is always
lighter when it’s ours, and the splinter always looks bigger when it belongs to
someone else.
Remove your
own plank before you comment on anyone else’s splinter today. Let
self-examination come before judgment and let humility replace the quiet
superiority that creeps into how we see other people’s faults. The measure you
use will be used on you, so let it be a generous one, the kind you’d actually
want measured back.
Today the
Church remembers Saints John Fisher and Thomas More, men who held their own
conscience to a higher account than they ever held anyone else’s, even at the
cost of their lives, and the day belongs to Our Lady of Perpetual Help, perfect
humility, who never once exalted herself above another. Something to ponder:
whose splinter have you been examining more closely than your own plank?
Rosary Man Jim 🌹
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