In the Gospel of Jesus, Gospel today, Jesus, St. John goes to Jesus and tells him that
there were people driving out demons in his name that were not from the company of the
apostles, and so John told him to stop doing that and asked Jesus if that was the right
thing, and Jesus said, no, don't prevent him, because anyone who is not against us is for
us, so we could see, maybe hear a little jealousy on the part of the apostles, thinking that
they had the only choice.
True way of serving Jesus and carrying out the will of God, this kind of jealousy maybe
is something to think about, and you know, I can touch, sensei being a member of a religious
order, there's a tendency to think that, you know, our work and our charism and our way
is perhaps the best or, you know, better or, you know, and there's that human tendency
to think that.
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Maybe to look down on other religious communities or other ways, other ways of carrying out,
carrying out God's work, and that's not right, that's not good, you know, we're all, God
calls people to all kinds of different religious orders and different, different works and
not everyone's called to religious orders, there's the parishes too, the parishes do,
and we should see all the good that's done in all these different, different ways of
life to serve God.
And to serve the church and to not only see that, but to encourage, encourage the good
that other people are doing and overcome our prejudices and, and not be too critical
and judgmental of others who don't do, do everything the way we do.
And so there's, there's that encouragement and that, that's helpful, that positive way,
that charity, it's a charity to, to look, look that way.
Yeah.
To encourage and speak well of, of, of others and, and you know, there's a, there's a pride
too there when we, when we pass judgment on, on others and think that we do things the
best way, that there's a pride there that can we really make God look upon our work
as less, less beneficial, fruitful than the work of others because of our, our pride.
So there's always that, that humility that we need to, to use.
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And to look upon the work of others and to pray and not to feel bad if other people have
more popularity and more enjoying greater works or having more success and to take joy
because we're all, we're doing this for God's will, we're, we're not in it for ourselves.
And if we feel jealous then of, of the good that others are, success that others are,
others are having, that's a sign of certain pride because I, because I'm, it's not redounding
to my glory and so I, I look down or I put down others' work.
So it's a, helps us to, helps us to, to, to stay humble, we're, we're, we're encouraging
each other.
We're all in God's work.
Everything should be redounding to God's glory, not to our, to our own glory.
And that's a good lesson to learn that we can learn from the gospel today.
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