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“Be compassionate as your Father is compassionate” (Luke 6,36)

Our Lord said to his disciples: “Do not judge, and you will not be judged; do not condemn and you will not be condemned; grant pardon and you will be pardoned; Give and there will be gifts for you: a full measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over; because the amount you measure out is the amount you will be given back”.
Two recommendations are made here in this passage of the Gospel: one what we must do and the other what we must avoid. The first one is the duty to be compassionate; the second one is that we are forbidden to judge anyone. How dangerous it is to judge others! This sin is to be avoided with utmost care and watch over one’s self, for the same measure will be meted out to us as we have meted out to others.
(M 502)