Gospel:
Matthew 18:15-20
Jesus
said to his disciples: “If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his
fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have won over your
brother. If he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, so that
every fact may be established on the testimony of two or three witnesses. If he
refuses to listen to them, tell the Church. If he refuses to listen even to the
Church, then treat him as you would a Gentile or a tax collector. Amen, I say
to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you
loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Again, amen, I say to you, if two of
you agree on earth about anything for which they are to pray, it shall be
granted to them by my heavenly Father. For where two or three are gathered
together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.”
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Reflection:
Mr. A and
Mrs. B have been married for almost fifteen years. Like other marriages they
also have their own share of tribulations. Ninety-five percent of it emanates
from their high sense of self or pride. Whenever they quarrel it normally takes
them almost a month before they reconcile all because of ego.
In the
gospel reading it says: “If your brother sins against you go and tell him his
fault between you and him alone.” This is not easy to do, if someone sins
against us would we still be willing to go to the individual at fault just to
tell him about it?
It’s
quite hard to do, unless we have the virtue of Humility. The normal scenario here
would be like this: You sinned against me, you therefore have to apologize to
me and not me going to you to tell you that you sinned against me.
It takes
great amount of humility to say: I’m sorry or to apologize. However, this is
what we are called for as followers of Jesus for the simple reason that Jesus
Himself is the model of humility.
You may
not know it but truth be told, if you’re humble you earn the respect and
admiration of everyone. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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