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Moment of Reflection
PATIENCE
Dear Brothers and Sisters: Today meditate on the beautiful virtue of Patience.
We need both this virtue!
"There are two classes of Patience:
A) - that purely human that finds its justification in the presence of values in another person.
B) - and authentically Christian patience, that by which we entranhamos the problem of brother
blocked by miseries and moral faults himself.
1 - We should also be aware that we also are weak and imperfect.
Christ in him remember with the familiar adage:
"Judge not lest you be judged, because, as with the judgment you judge, so shall ye be judged;
and with the same measure that medirdes, so shall ye be measured.
Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye and not the beam that is in thine own eye?
How dare you say to your brother:
Let me take the speck out of your eye, you have a plank in your own?
You hypocrite, first take the plank from your own eye, and then shalt thou see to remove the speck from your brother's eye. "
An oriental proverb says:
"Before you look at the dirt of the city and complain you her clean the room of your house."
Paul Claudel went one day this rebuke to a young man who complained of not being accepted by others:
"My boy, do not not worry too much about not being understood by others;
before you ask yourself what do you do to understand and support each other. "
S. Paul, with a more concise and effective, advises us that we endure each other (Gal.6, 2):
is a duty of justice!
2 - It's good to finally recognize that to achieve a genuine dialogue
is needed calm, relaxation, PATIENCE!
Whoever lets himself be taken by nerves, is in danger of not knowing how to distinguish good things fair:
is like trying to look through the binoculars when we have to shake hands;
is like trying to thread the needle when you're dancing.
It is said that the Roman Emperor, Julius Caesar, willful man,
had a habit of mentally counting up to twenty, before answering,
if it had tense nerves or was caused by someone.
A chief of the tribe of Madagascar, a large island in the Indian Ocean, advises:
"If brigaste with your brother and want to kill him, said one of his chief, sit down before;
tobacco fills your pipe and smoke ... smoke ... smoke ...
In the end, you'll have realized that death for that thine enemy
is too severe a punishment for missing that committed;
resolverás then give him only a few good shots ...
But, fills the second time, your pipe and smoke .. smoke ... smoke until the end.
In the end, Thou shalt persuade that instead of many blows, one might suffice reprimands.
But when you have filled the pipe for the third time and have finished smoking,
then concludes the head, Thou shalt persuade that you should go with your brother and hug him. "
It is the result of experience: the more we advance in years, in life, we feel more prepared for indulgence.
Also, it is why God is all Goodness: HE IS FOREVER!
The Blessing of God Almighty, Father, Son and Holy Spirit
descend upon you with all your patience and stay forever. - Amen.