Daily Mass Gospel Reflection - The Flawless Perspective

Word on Fire Ministry ^ | 9.9.22 | Bishop Robert Barron

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MEMORIAL OF SAINT PETER CLAVER, PRIEST

LUKE 6:39–42

Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus commands us to stop judging others.
He asks, “Why do you notice the splinter in your brother’s eye,
but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own eye?”
We are exceptionally good at seeing the fault in others,
but we are exceptionally adept at ignoring it in ourselves.

There was a very popular book that came out when I was a teenager.
It was called I’m Okay and You’re Okay.
It represented the culture of exculpation and feel-good-about-yourself.
Not many years ago, Christina Aguilera crooned, “I am beautiful in every single way, and words can’t bring me down.”
Look at so many of the debates today;
the attitude that is winning is one of self-invention and self-assertion.
“Who are you to tell me how to behave?”

In all of this, we are fundamentally looking away from our guilt, our fault, our darkness.
We are effectively drugging ourselves, dulling the pain of real self-consciousness.
In the process, we turn ourselves into God, pretending to be absolute,
flawless, and impervious to criticism.
So “remove the wooden beam from your eye first;
then you will see clearly to remove the splinter from your brother’s eye.”

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+++Jesus told his disciples a parable:
“Can a blind person guide a blind person?
Will not both fall into a pit?
No disciple is superior to the teacher;
but when fully trained,
every disciple will be like his teacher.
Why do you notice the splinter in your brother’s eye,
but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own?
How can you say to your brother,
‘Brother, let me remove that splinter in your eye,’
when you do not even notice the wooden beam in your own eye?
You hypocrite!
Remove the wooden beam from your eye first;
then you will see clearly
to remove the splinter in your brother’s eye.”+++

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“Why do you notice the splinter in your brother’s eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own eye?” We are exceptionally good at seeing the fault in others, but we are exceptionally adept at ignoring it in ourselves.

Once again, Boobie Barron reveals himself to be the epitome of a hypocrite, similar to his promoter, Bergoglio:

Bp. Barron Suggests Censoring Catholic Social Media

Bp. Barron said, "There are, to be blunt, a disconcerting number of such people on social media who are trading in hateful, divisive speech, often deeply at odds with the theology of the Church and who are, sadly, having a powerful impact on the people of God."

Barron hopes Hell is empty, doesn't think the Supreme Court should reverse its ruling on homo marriage, and thinks Jesus Christ is only the preferred path to Heaven.

Yet any Catholic who disagrees with his heresies, he want's to censor.

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Bishop Barron Condemns Traditional Catholics

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“Why do you continually notice the splinter in your brother’s eye,
but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own eye?”

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Tell that to your heroes, Barron and Bergoglio, Murph:

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