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LAWSUIT AGAINST FELLOW CHRISTIAN

WEEK 23 IN ORDINARY TIME
Readings 1 Corinthians 6:1-11 Do not drag your brother to a pagan for judgement

How dare one of your members take up a complaint against another in the law courts of the unjust instead of before the saints? As you know, it is the saints who are to ‘judge the world’; and if the world is to be judged by you, how can you be unfit to judge trifling cases? Since we are also to judge angels, it follows that we can judge matters of everyday life; but when you have had cases of that kind, the people you appointed to try them were not even respected in the Church. You should be ashamed: is there really not one reliable man among you to settle differences between brothers and so one brother brings a court case against another in front of unbelievers? It is bad enough for you to have lawsuits at all against one another: oughtn’t you to let yourselves be wronged, and let yourselves be cheated? But you are doing the wronging and the cheating, and to your own brothers. Readings Gospel Reflection

You know perfectly well that people who do wrong will not inherit the kingdom of God: people of immoral lives, idolaters, adulterers, catamites, sodomites, thieves, usurers, drunkards, slanderers and swindlers will never inherit the kingdom of God. These are the sort of people some of you were once, but now you have been washed clean, and sanctified, and justified through the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and through the Spirit of our God. 

Pray the Holy Rosary: Hail Mary

Your Birthday Saint: Blessed  Bertrand of Garrigues OP . May he  pray for you as you celebrate your birthday today.
Lecture Première Corinthiens 6, 1-11
  « Un frère est en procès avec son frère, et cela devant des gens qui ne sont pas croyants ! »
 
Frères, lorsque l’un d’entre vous a un désaccord avec un autre, comment ose-t-il aller en procès devant des juges païens plutôt que devant les fidèles ? Ne savez-vous pas que les fidèles jugeront le monde ? Et si c’est vous qui devez juger le monde, seriez-vous indignes de juger des affaires de moindre importance ? Ne savez-vous pas que nous jugerons des anges ? À plus forte raison les affaires de cette vie ! Et quand vous avez de telles affaires, vous prenez comme juges des gens qui n’ont pas d’autorité dans l’Église ! Je vous le dis à votre honte. N’y aurait-il parmi vous aucun homme assez sage pour servir d’arbitre entre ses frères ? Pourtant, un frère est en procès avec son frère, et cela devant des gens qui ne sont pas croyants ! 
C’est déjà un échec pour vous d’avoir des litiges entre vous. Pourquoi ne pas plutôt supporter l’injustice ? Pourquoi ne pas plutôt vous laisser dépouiller ? Au contraire, c’est vous qui commettez l’injustice et qui dépouillez les autres, et cela, vous le faites à des frères ! 

Ne savez-vous pas que ceux qui commettent l’injustice ne recevront pas le royaume de Dieu en héritage ? Ne vous y trompez pas : ni les débauchés, les idolâtres, les adultères, ni les dépravés et les sodomites, ni les voleurs et les profiteurs, ni les ivrognes, les diffamateurs et les escrocs, aucun de ceux-là ne recevra le royaume de Dieu en héritage. Voilà ce qu’étaient certains d’entre vous. Mais vous avez été lavés, vous avez été sanctifiés, vous êtes devenus des justes, au nom du Seigneur Jésus Christ et par l’Esprit de notre Dieu. Lectures  Meditation


Saints de Votre Anniversaire: Saint Bienheureux Bertrand de Garrigues et  puisse q'il prier pour vous alors que vous célébrez votre anniversaire aujourd’hui.

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