Fraternity Correction: 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time

Listen to the homily here.

Notes:

23^rd Sunday in Ordinary Time

Love

·      God

o   “Come, let us bow down in worship; let us kneel before the LORD who made us.  For he is our God, and we are the people he shepherds, the flock he guides.”

·      Neighbor

o   “Love your neighbor as yourself”

Love of being a watcher, a true friend, spouse, parents

·      Fraternity of Correction or Maternity of Correction

·      Not to judge, but to communicate, trust, and challenge each other

·      Sweatshirt in seminary

How do we use true love that may be challenging a family member, friend?

·      “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.”

Process with true love which is not always what we “feel” for love

·      “But if you warn the wicked, trying to turn him from his way, and he refuses to turn from his way, he shall die for his guilt, but you shall save yourself.”

 “For where two or three are gathered together in my name,
there am I in the midst of them.”