There’s a lot to learn in today’s scriptures about how to address other people’s sins. Both of the readings are very powerful. God the Father corrected Job in no uncertain terms in the first reading: “Have you ever in your lifetime commanded the morning and shown the dawn its place?”
Do Not Despise One of These Little Ones
Job said in today’s first reading for Mass: “Pity me, pity me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has struck me! Why do you hound me as though you were divine, and insatiably prey upon me?” It sounds like Job’s friends were pretty cruel and they treated him like almost like bullies do in school.
Jesus Withdrew From Negativity and Where He Wasn’t Wanted
The first reading for Mass today begins with the words, “Job opened his mouth and cursed his day,” and the negative feelings and emotions continue through the rest of the first reading, the responsorial psalm and the gospel today as well. What should we do? Nobody wants to think about negative, unhappy things …