CẢM NGHIỆM SỐNG LC- BRENDAN 23RD SUNDAY-A

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    Mo Nguyen
     
    Fri, Sep 4 at 4:23 PM
     
     

            TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME - YEAR A

                                               06 SEPTEMBER 2020

     

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                                         WINNING PEOPLE BACK  

               

                  REFLECTIONS ON THE GOSPEL (Matthew 18: 15-20)

                                          WINNING PEOPLE BACK

    The Church is not a community of the perfect. Allowance has to be made for dealing with moral lapses and dissensions that inevitably occur in a community still on the way to the Kingdom.

    In today’s Gospel the procedure Jesus lays down for dealing with conflict reveals his sense of the Church as the family of God. Correction should as far as possible be carried out in private. Only if that proves unsuccessful should a carefully staged progression of increasingly public procedures be set in place. The goal is not simply to win, but rather to ‘win back’ the ‘brother or sister’, to preserve as far as possible the dignity of the errant person, and to enhance everyone’s sense of being a valued member of the ‘family’.

    If, despite all, the process fails, there is nothing to be done but to treat the person as an outsider. There comes a point beyond which a community can no longer tolerate members who consistently defy its core values.

    To set someone outside the community is no light matter. The Church needs to know that its decisions in this regard enjoy heavenly sanction. Hence Jesus’ assurance that the ‘binding and loosing’ authority conferred personally upon Peter in regard to interpretations of the law (Matthew 16: 19), is also enjoyed by the local community with respect to the exclusion or non-exclusion of errant members. As risen Lord, Jesus remains ‘Emmanuel’, ‘God with us’, in community life and deliberation (see Matthew 1:23). The Church’s cannon law and way of proceeding has developed way beyond this simple instruction. But its fundamental spirit should remain.

    Brendan Byrne, SJ

     

    God Is Love by Nick & Becky Drake // Worship For Everyone // #UNIQUE Lyric Video:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc1wHXmXKsk

     

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    Hãy tha bảy mươi lần bảy:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLXoXqDnRe4

     

    Tha 70 lần 7:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glekK2MkGnU

     

    Our Father * Notre Père * Kinh lạy Cha:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pl5JD-hi4w

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dct-ZwJCh8

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJul8w_ePgQ