Christ Our Light Catholic Church - Loudonville, NY

February 22 and February 23
Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

From Deacon Dick~

IN SEARCH OF TRUE PEACE

          True Peace among the human family is increasingly elusive in our time.   Whenever we are enticed to cede our ultimate loyalty to an ideology, an institution, a tribe, a group, or a person other than Jesus the Christ, the path of True Peace is obscured.  Author Johann Christoph Arnold observes: True peace has nothing to do with passivity or resignation. It is not for the spineless or self-absorbed or for those content with a quiet life.  Peace demands that we live honestly before God, before others, and in the light of our own conscience … and that demands deeds of love.

In today’s Gospel from Luke, Jesus teaches us what it means to live honestly before God and in the light of our own conscience:

Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful
Stop judging and you will not be judged.
Stop condemning and you will not be condemned.
Forgive and you will be forgiven.’
For the measure with which you measure
will in return be measured out to you.

May it be so!