tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668594987436792920.post629119370343611480..comments2023-07-05T08:17:21.505-04:00Comments on Getting to the Point: Let's Talk About JudgmentFr. Denis Lemieuxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01049723287624178155noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668594987436792920.post-12126119800984753962016-05-23T23:15:29.511-04:002016-05-23T23:15:29.511-04:00I have several grandchildren who are living with a...I have several grandchildren who are living with and not married to their partner----and not practising their faith-And also a daughter and her husband and son, who no longer practise their faith and one fallen away son who has been away from the church for over 40 years......I pray for all of them but would like to be able to talk to them about the lifestyles they are living but I know they will not be open to hearing it from their grandma!! Should I say anything to them...I don't want any of them to die without being in a state of grace........Maureenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14235339663796118489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668594987436792920.post-90607540286577538302016-05-19T09:14:23.930-04:002016-05-19T09:14:23.930-04:00I'm not quite sure I am following you well. It...I'm not quite sure I am following you well. It seems to me that if I really and deeply love a person, I will indeed hate the evil they do. For example, I have a near relative who has ruined his life with drug use. I love this person, and so I hate the evil of what he has done. If I did not, could I really say I loved him?<br />And the second paragraph of your comment seems to me to be more or less restating what I said in my post, so I'm not sure if you think you are disagreeing with me or what... anyhow, I do think I'm pretty careful in how I write, and I maintain what I have written here. God bless you!Fr. Denis Lemieuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01049723287624178155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668594987436792920.post-46705010748013489332016-05-19T07:53:35.349-04:002016-05-19T07:53:35.349-04:00I hear this a little differently.
Matt.7:1-5 does...I hear this a little differently.<br /><br />Matt.7:1-5 does not teach “Love the sinner, hate the sin.” Instead, it means we are to: “Love the sinner and hate your own sin.” Thomas Merton made a similar point: “If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed – but hate those things in yourself, not in another.” How difficult that truly is!<br /><br />Sadly, much of the polarization in our church is related to a false notion of judgementalism. This belief that we are to hold up our moral superiority against those who we have judged to believe differently from ourselves. There are those who deride and even shun those whom they have judged to be morally wrong. As if judgement belonged with them and not God.<br /><br />We all have to be very careful here...and pray very hard. Learn to speak more clearly for life and not against it.... <br /><br />Bless you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com