On whom is Jesus hardest? (Fr. Ron Rolheiser)

   Notice when Jesus points out sin, he doesn’t point to where we are weak and defeated; rather, he points to where we are strong, arrogant, indifferent, and judgmental. Search the Gospels and ask this question: On whom is Jesus hardest? The answer is clear: Jesus is hardest on those who are strong, judgmental, and have no feeling for those who are enduring the storm. 

    All of us will live longer and more happily if we stop trying to arrange other peoples’ lives. Jesus challenged us not to judge but to live with the tension and let God and history make the judgments. So we need to live by our own convictions and let others do the same.* 

--Fr. Ron Rolheiser OMI, Facebook 

October 2, 2020 & April 14, 2021 

*The second paragraph is a paraphrase of a statement Pope Francis made in 2014. 

Image source: Domenico Fetti, The Parable of the Mote and the Beam (c.1619), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mote_and_the_Beam#/media/File:Domenico_Fetti_-_The_Parable_of_the_Mote_and_the_Beam.jpg