Posted on 10/24/2019 3:29:30 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
..Raoul Follereau, the French-born pioneer advocate for people afflicted with leprosy, wrote: “I had a dream – a man came to the judgment seat of God. He said, ‘You see, Lord, I have done nothing evil, dishonest or impious. Lord, my hands are clean’.
‘But,’ says the Lord, ‘They are empty’!”
Nowhere is this spelled out more clearly than in Matthew’s account of the Last Judgment.
Those who are condemned, the goats who take their place on the judge’s left hand, plead their innocence on the grounds that they simply did not advert to the plight of their brothers and sisters in need (Matthew 25:31-46).
...Anthony Anderson, the genial Presbyterian minister in George Bernard Shaw’s play, The Devil’s Disciple, made to his wife Judith: “The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.”
Indifference and the wilful spiritual blindness that sustains it lie at the very heart of what, in our catechesis, we commonly describe as sins of omission – the focus of much, perhaps the greater part, of Jesus’ moral teaching.
...For our edification and as a yardstick against we might measure our own perception of where injustice is rife today and our willingness to intervene, we might take account of the lives of such people as: Raoul Wallenberg, Irena Sendler, Sir Nicholas Winton, Oskar Schindler, Carl Lutz, Pastor André Trocmé and his wife Magda, and the more than 11,000 “righteous Gentiles” who are named and honoured at the Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem.
Very readable biographies of many of them have been written.
Asked why, at considerable risk of her own life, she harboured traumatised Jews during the war years, one elderly Polish woman replied, “Because the time is now and I am here”.
(Excerpt) Read more at catholicleader.com.au ...
Honestly, if the pols started killing each other, I would be indifferent.
When gangbangers kill each other, I am indifferent.
When muslims of one brand kill muslims of another, I am indifferent.
If the government starts shooting the people, I will not be indifferent.
On his release, after serving 20 years in Berlin’s Spandau Prison, he stated, “I did not hate them (the Jews); I was indifferent to them. My crime was far worse because I was not an anti-Semite.”
Does this apply to Rat Lines?
What annoys me is that no one seems to be preaching the “duties of our daily lives”, which, if we dedicate our mundane tasks to the Lord, will lead to holiness.
And I say this as an ex missionary. I was lucky that I could become a physician and do this. But what about my neighbors? How many serve the Lord by taking casseroles to neighbors who are sick, or caring for their elderly family members, or helping in the food bank, or driving a neighbor to the clinic for an appointment? How many are so busy working full time that they only can serve the Lord caring for their families.
Once, Mother Teresa took a taxi to a meeting here in the USA. The Taxi driver asked her: How can I best serve the Lord. The taxi driver expected her to say: Give money, or volunteer for our homeless shelter, etc.(which of course would mean taking time or money from his family).
but she answered him: Smile at your wife.
Because simple things showing love to one’s spouse is doing God's work
Author Os Guiness aptly noted that today:
“The scandal of the American church, unlike almost every European country except Poland, is that in this country, the church is a huge majority, yet culturally, uninfluential.”
Not everyone is called to be an activist, and living out the faith begins at HOME within our own PERSONAL lives. Indeed.
But considering the divorce rates, and other discouraging realities afflicting all too many Christian homes — it’s no wonder the greater culture is in such dire straits.
Bookmark.
only way out
film about how danish people helped save thousands of danish jews from the german army in ww2 and escape to sweden.
goodbye holland
documentary showing indifference (and betrayal) of majority of the dutch to help jews escape from the germans in ww2
That makes a of sense to me. I immediately thought of the Amish (in my area) and how they go about their lives and daily choirs.
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