Gospel: Luke 6:39-42
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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Reflection:
What is
the sure-fire recipe for failure in marriage? It’s the judgmental and
self-righteous attitudes of both spouses. When a spouse is quick to draw
judgment and if he/she only listens to himself/herself. We can be assured that
somewhere down the road the marriage vehicle will stop and will eventually
permanently break apart.
Many
marriages fall apart because of the tunnel vision of many spouses. They run
their respective marriages with dominance, they never allow democracy to grow
and eventually thrive within the marriage covenant.
Marriage
is always a democratic and participatory union. Never it has become an
autocratic and one sided union between two different and unique individuals.
Therefore the best recipe for success in marriage is not to allow judgmental mindset
to rule the marriage. To allow democracy to carve its own space in the marriage.
In the
gospel for this Friday, Jesus warns about being judgmental. Wherein we only
choose to see the fault of the other person yet we purposely don’t notice our
own shortcomings. We are quick to point an accusing finger yet we don’t have
the courage and humility to point the same accusing finger to ourselves. –
Marino J. Dasmarinas
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