Sacred Healing 12:30
06_Judge Not the Carrying
"I could easily have created men possessed of all that they should need both for body and soul, but I wish that one should have need of the other, and that they should be My ministers to administer the graces and the gifts that they have received from Me” (The Dialogue, Catherine of Siena).
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Study Audio
Action Items
As you carry your cross with Jesus:
Pray the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary for the cross you carry.
Judge yourself in the confessional, so your sin will not be held against you at the last judgment.
If you struggle with boundaries (which is a lack of charity), watch Candice's video in which she explains that a lack of boundaries sometimes proceeds from trauma bonds.
LOVE the Word™ is a Bible study method based on Mary's own practice: lectio without the Latin. This week’s LOVE the Word™ exercise is according to a Augustinian* personality approach.
Listen (Receive the Word.)
"You shall not bear hatred for your brother in your heart. Though you may have to reprove your fellow man, do not incur sin because of him. Take no revenge and cherish no grudge against your fellow countrymen. You shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD" (Leviticus 19:17-19).
Observe (Connect the passage to recent events.)
Did Jesus correct anyone while carrying His cross?
As best you can, identify where you are judging yourself through perfectionism and others in condemnation.
What do you see in yourself in the mirror of your difficult neighbor?
What situation in your life has gotten out of control due to your unwillingness, for whatever reason, to erect proper boundaries or to confront your neighbor before you lose control in anger, whether anger toward the person directly, to someone else in gossip or slander, or interiorly with thoughts of revenge, resentment, or hatred?
Where do you lack charity toward yourself or your neighbor in offering a measured, rational, unemotional reproof?
Where do you lack charity in offering yourself or your neighbor forgiveness?
In what instance recently did you stand in God's place as judge?
How does this passage offer you hope?
Verbalize (Pray about your thoughts and emotions.)
In your journal or on your journal page (get a free page to the right), write down your thoughts and feelings about these verses. What's the main thing God wants you to know from this passage? What is the Holy Spirit saying to you through the mystery of how Jesus carried His cross?
Entrust (May it be done to me according to your word!)
Abba, Father, show me what it means to take up my cross and follow Jesus.
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*LOVE the Word™ exercises vary weekly according to the four personalities, or "prayer forms," explored in Prayer and Temperament, by Chester Michael and Marie Norrisey: Ignatian, Augustinian, Franciscan, and Thomistic. These prayer forms correspond to the Myers-Briggs personality types.
Episode Resources
Here's the private Facebook discussion page for the Healing the Father Wound series, if you want to join in the conversation with a little more privacy, as I do.
What is the Rosary?
JPII's Encyclical Letter, Dives in Misericordia, on God as Father
References
1Co 11:31-32 But if we judged ourselves truly, we should not be judged. But when we are judged by the Lord, we are chastened so that we may not be condemned along with the world.
Rom 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.