{"id":7218,"date":"2020-09-06T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/?p=7218"},"modified":"2020-09-02T09:25:11","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T13:25:11","slug":"from-fr-tom-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/2020\/09\/06\/from-fr-tom-8\/","title":{"rendered":"From Fr. Tom!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" data-page-number=\"2\" data-page-label=\"2-1BL\" data-loaded=\"true\">\n<div class=\"textLayer\">Happy Labor Day weekend to all of you!<\/div>\n<div class=\"textLayer\">Hopefully, this reflection finds you well and healthy. When I read the Gospel passage for the 22nd Sunday of ordinary time those questions came to my mind: am I responsible for my brothers and sisters if they do wrong??? Is it my responsibility to correct everyone who has any wrongdoings? It\u2019s not possible!<\/div>\n<div class=\"textLayer\">Once a man approached St. Francis of Assisi and said to him, <div class=\"su-quote su-quote-style-default\"><div class=\"su-quote-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">Brother Francis, I am in a dilemma. In the Bible it says we should rebuke sinners, but I see people sinning all the time. I don&#8217;t feel like I should go around rebuking everybody.<\/div><\/div> St. Francis thought for a moment and then said, <div class=\"su-quote su-quote-style-default\"><div class=\"su-quote-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">What you must do is &#8216;live in such a way that your life rebukes the sinner.&#8217; How you act will call others to repentance.<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"textLayer\">It is our Christian principle of <div class=\"su-quote su-quote-style-default\"><div class=\"su-quote-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">loving our neighbors as ourselves<\/div><\/div> that calls for our concern and responsibility towards our neighbors. And one of the ways we can show our love for one another is to offer guidance and corrections.<\/div>\n<div class=\"textLayer\">Jesus calls us to look into our own conduct in relation to this law of brotherly love. Have we really tried to help our fellow-men on the road to heaven? Have we given them a good example of a truly Christian way of living? Have we offered advice and encouragement when it was needed, and correction in private where that was possible?<\/div>\n<div class=\"textLayer\">You and I \u2014 by the way we live \u2014 are called to be watchmen and to build a community of love.<\/div>\n<div class=\"textLayer\">May God help us to do this!!!<\/p>\n<div class=\"endOfContent\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><em>Fr. Tom<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"page\" data-page-number=\"3\" data-page-label=\"3-CFR\" data-loaded=\"true\">\n<div class=\"canvasWrapper\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"textLayer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Labor Day weekend to all of you! Hopefully, this reflection finds you well and healthy. When I read the Gospel passage for the 22nd Sunday of ordinary time those questions came to my mind: am I responsible for my brothers and sisters if they do wrong??? Is it my responsibility to correct everyone who has any wrongdoings? It\u2019s not possible! Once&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fr-tom","ctfw-no-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7220,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7218\/revisions\/7220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgenevieve-stmaurice.org\/parish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}