He knows His closest friends have still not captured the situation . and sleep He knows that one of his disciples has already betrayed him, he knows that. Another will deny him soon. He knows you will run away. He knows you, he has entrusted his legacy.
The bitterness of the night comes, perhaps not only because he knows what to expect in the next few hours on him. You may also have its foundation in the continuing betrayal of his message - betrayal in thoughts, words, works, the omission of Gethsemane continued until today, until now, and now beyond.
I like stopping by on his blog, I was happy when he has left me comments. And he certainly was - especially a priest - also seen in other members of the Blogozese and popular. Now, the question of child pornography that had been secured on his computer. He admitted charges corresponding to his bishop over already. If true, this is a hard blow. Even if it is "only" to "material" and not actual abuse. Even if it's getting worse - even the horror of such material does gradations - should act to little files of violent nature. Such accusations can not play down, not nice talk, do not qualify
is the same, so only incidentally, still the presumption of innocence. benefit of the doubt - the doubt the accused. And spread a newspaper over a "confession" is good nor the final assessment of the situation to the fact that investigators evaluate the computer of the person concerned.
But we assume that the assumptions are supported by facts. What should we do? Turn away in disgust? The dead, figuratively speaking, hunting out of town? want to have nothing more to do with it? Say a few prayers and move your head? Is not it the case that we are all too happy to crumble and look into the distance, local, spiritually, intellectually, if we are dealing with people who - rightly or wrongly - Adheres something shameful? Something that goes beyond the circle of socially correct or decency seems to burst? But: Can we the accused, the outlaws, the sinners, now left to their own devices and so rid of the problem by hiding the interested party, go to everyday? We are the reminder to love the sinner, then relieved when the sin is hateful enough?
From my own experience I know, though, and - thankfully - due to a quite different and the event horizon, as if suddenly, almost all of a turn. If one by one Day to the other loses his job and with it the means of subsistence, already found guilty, even before they could defend themselves legally. If you cut is avoided, when friendships are dismissed even by those that would have really have known better. If they denounced the whole big blah of reconciliation, tolerance, justice, moral courage as Phrasengedresch. Perhaps at some point comes the time when I will tell it here or on a new blog. Here I will only hint at. Why?
Because, yes, I will quietly say "pathetic", feel sympathy with our Exblogger, which now may in a situation in which one - even if the charges apply - even words of encouragement needed. Not words of belittlement, where nothing can possibly be played down and may, but words that say that no one should feel left alone with the ruins of a life plan ... that a hand is stretched out. And if he wants, he can write like me, one contact is found in the profile.
We probably have all the pages on which we are grateful to others can not - or even a thorn in the flesh what is already the St. Paul complains ( 2 Cor 12, 7 ). It must are not the big scandal. Every sin is not only an insult to God, but an offense against the City of God , the citizens of God, and thus has a social component. In fact, the "devil creeps around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he might devour. He resists steadfast in the faith" (1 Peter 5, 8 sq ) ... resist it ... Such stands here as an invitation, not as fact. How often we fail themselves?
How often do we betray the Lord? How often do we deny Him? How often do we run away? How often do we leave him alone? And what about now with the words we heard yesterday still so warm-hearted heard in the reading ... "So to take each of you the other, as Christ has accepted your ( Rom. 15, 7 )?
Jesus was left alone with the woman who was still in the middle, he straightened up and said to her. Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you answered: No, sir. Then Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn. Go and sin no more! ( John 8, 9-11 ).
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