Lenten Reflections

JESUS said to his disciples: 'Be compassionate as your father is compassionate. Do not judge, and you will not be judged yourselves, do not condemn and you will not be condemned yourselves, grant pardon, and you will be pardoned. Give, and there will be gifts for you, a full measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over will be poured into you lap; because the amount you measure out is the amount you will be given back' ' Luke 6:36-38.'The scribes and the Pharisees occupy the chair of Moses. You must therefore do what they tell you and listen to what they say, but do not be guided by what they do, since they do not practice what they preach. They tie up heavy burdens and lay them on men's shoulders, but will they lift a finger to move them' Not they! Everything they do is done to attract attention, like wearing broader phylacteries and longer tassels, like wanting to take the place of honour at banquets and the front seats in the synagogues, being greeted obsequiously in the market squares and having people calling them Rabbi. You, however, must not allow yourselves to be called Rabbi, since you have only one master, and you are all brothers. You must call no one on earth your father since you have only one father and he is in heaven. Nor must you allow yourselves to be called teachers, for you have only one teacher, the Christ. The greatest among you must be your servant. Anyone who exalts himself will be humbled and anyone who humbles himself will be exalted' ' Matthew 23: 1-12.Very Rev. Osu Gabriel, Director, Social Communications, Lagos Archdiocese
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