Sunday, February 23 : Saint Charles de Foucauld

“Do not judge and you will not be judged. “(LC 6,37) how you love men, my God, you who prohibit judging them and who reserve for you, their only father, their only master, their only judge, their judgment! … how you like men, you who want them to be so loved by each other, and who give them this command so suitable for maintaining mutual esteem, mother of love and thereby making them love one another! … How you are good, you who want so much to attach them to you, so much develop in them your love, and who give them this command so suitable for establishing your love in them, and because it softens their hearts and prevents it from being bitter towards men, thereby makes him more sweet towards you (because we have only one heart, bitter for all or suave for all), and then, because diverting their attention from the acts of other men, in prohibiting them to judge them, you make it much easier to attach all their attention, their gaze, their contemplation, their love to you alone! Let us not judge: by obedience to this word of Jesus … because we are not entitled to that. “Why do you judges the servant of others? “(RM 14.4) (…) By goodness, let’s have a sweet heart, suave, without bitterness; This heart is indulgent, does not judge, turns away from evil; charity does not think about evil: she believes everything, hopes everything (1 co 13, 7).

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