"To love God as He ought to be loved, we must be detached from all temporal love.

must love nothing but Him, or if we love anything else, we must love it only for His sake."                                           

                                     ~~~      ST. PETER CLAVER   ~~~

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  １Corinthians 9:16-19, 22b-27

    Because I cannot boast of

   Announcing the Gospel: I am bound to do it. Woe to me if I do not preach the Gospel!  If I preached voluntarily, I could expect my reward, but I have been trusted this office against my will.  How can I, then, deserve a reward? In announcing the Gospel, I will do it freely without making use of the rights given to me by the Gospel.

 So, feeling free with every­­body, I have become every­body’s slave in order to gain a greater number.   To the weak I made myself weak, to win the weak. So I made myself all things to all people in order to save, by all possible means, some of them.  This I do for the Gospel, so that I too have a share of it.

Have you not learned anything from the stadium? Many run, but only one gets the prize. Run, therefore, intending to win it, as athletes who impose upon themselves a rigorous discipline. Yet for them the wreath is of laurels which wither, while for us, it does not wither.

 So, then, I run knowing where I go. I box but not aim­lessly in the air. I punish my body and control it, lest after preaching to others, I myself should be rejected.

 

Ps 84:3, 4, 5-6, 12

How lovely is your dwelling place, Lord, mighty God!

 

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Luke 6:39-42

And Jesus offered this example, “Can a blind person lead another blind person? Surely both will fall into a ditch. A disciple is not above the master; but when fully trained, he will be like the master. So why do you pay attention to the speck in your brother’s eye while you have a log in your eye and are not conscious of it?

 How can you say to your neighbor: ‘Friend, let me take this speck out of your eye,’ when you can’t remove the log in your own? You hypocrite! First remove the log from your own eye and then you will see clearly enough to remove the speck from your neighbor’s eye.

 

 Gospel Reflection：

Blind Spots

In 1955 psychologists Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham together created the “Johari Window” concept which maps how much we and others know of ourselves. Of the four quadrants of this window of awareness is the “blind spot”- that part of our self known to others but unknown to us.

Jesus today speaks about how judgmental of others we are, while remaining happily oblivious to our own blind spots. A sign of human maturity is the growing awareness of one’s own blind spots.

Such awareness leads to a deeper knowledge of oneself and a greater compassion for others, for we would have known by then that as human beings, we are more similar than different in our blind spots. We may still attempt to offer corrections, but in private, respectfully and fraternally, and without disgracing the other. And. If the other still persists in his or her blind spots, we will also know how to bear one another’s burden and thus fulfill the law of Christ (cf. Gal 6:2).