REFLECTION:
We are constantly judging: persons, things, events, circumstances, etc.
To live is to judge – because judging is what allows us to discern right from wrong, good from bad, accep­table from unacceptable.
Judging is what allows us to discriminate between what is appropriate and what isn’t. But this isn’t the kind of judgment Jesus warns us against in the gospel.
It is, rather, that kind of judgment that puts ourselves above those that we judge, the kind of judgment that sees itself as
somehow exempt from that very act of judging, that regards oneself as superior and therefore exempt from all judgment, man’s and God’s.
This, Jesus says, is what hypocrisy amounts to.
Seek to always abide by the law, whether or not there are others who see you.
The most ethical persons are those who can and choose to be ethical in anonymity.

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