DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage
Dear Friend in the Lord,
“Sin Destroys Community” – Faith: In today’s Gospel, Jesus proclaims to His disciples on how they are to win back a member of the community who has gone astray because of his sins. Ponder on, “If the sin of a person, is grave, it may divide and even destroy the community. As such, do we show compassion or condemn the person, and cause greater harm to our community?’
Fr Philip Heng, S.J.
Matthew 18: 15-20
Jesus said to his disciples: ‘If your brother does something wrong, go and have it out with him alone, between your two selves. If he listens to you, you have won back your brother. If he does not listen, take one or two others along with you: the evidence of two or three witnesses is required to sustain any charge. But if he refuses to listen to these, report it to the community; and if he refuses to listen to the community, treat him like a pagan or a tax collector.
‘In truth I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven; whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
‘I tell you solemnly once again, if two of you on earth agree to ask anything at all, it will be granted to you by my Father in heaven. For where two or three meet in my name, I am there with them.’