First Reading Ez 33:7-9
Psalm Ps 95 : 1-2. 6-7 . 8-9(8)
Second Reading Rom 13:8-10
Gospel Mt 18:15-20
In today's first reading is a reminder of God's call to all His people, a most profound and yet challenging ones - to be a prophet to the sinful and ignorant.
In second reading, the most important God has for us is to LOVE one another like yourself. It is further connected into the gospel where we have to constantly remind and bring those who did something wrong back to the arm fold of God. It is easy to be said than done. The nature of human kind is individualism, we can not see out of our own perspective and often reject others.
God asked us to go private for the first approach to them and try to point out and assist them out of their blind spot. If this don't work out, do not give up on him. Bring the community along to counsel them to repent and conversion of heart. The last resort if the matters is too serious and could be detrimental to the Church only shall we bring this to her hierarchy.
We are hold accountable for any soul that is lost knowing that they are swaying away from the path set by God. If we do our best to guide them back to the right track and yet unsuccessful, we are righteously His sons and daughters. He'll take care of the rest.
Commentary and excerpt from Fr. Edmund Woon's homily on 04/09/11
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