08-01-2014, 09:43 AM
Pope Francis illustrates his point with very concrete, everyday examples of diabolical activity. For example, let’s look at gossip: I’m a bit envious of this or that person and at first I’m just envious inside and I need to share it and go to another person and say: “But have you seen that person?’.. and this gossip tries to grow and infects another and another… This is the way gossip works and all of us have been tempted to gossip! …It’s a daily temptation. And it begins in this way, discreetly, like a trickle of water. It grows by infecting others and in the end it justifies itself.”
We will destroy ourselves eventually because in passing harsh judgments on others who have failed us, we cannot but also prepare our own destruction. Remember the the proverb which says, “those who live in glass houses must not throw stones.” Precisely, because we all live in glass houses, let us realize, before we throw stones at others, that we cannot pretend to be faultless ourselves.
We will destroy ourselves eventually because in passing harsh judgments on others who have failed us, we cannot but also prepare our own destruction. Remember the the proverb which says, “those who live in glass houses must not throw stones.” Precisely, because we all live in glass houses, let us realize, before we throw stones at others, that we cannot pretend to be faultless ourselves.