A reflection on Matthew 7:1-5
Monday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time
©️2021 Gloria M. Chang
“Stop judging, that you may not be judged. For as you judge, so will you be judged, and the measure with which you measure will be measured out to you. Why do you notice the splinter in your brother’s eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove that splinter from your eye,’ while the wooden beam is in your eye? You hypocrite, remove the wooden beam from your eye first; then you will see clearly to remove the splinter from your brother’s eye.”
Matthew 7:1-5
A wooden beam in the eye
Neighbors’ splinters magnify.
Traditional Chinese Translation
《勿論斷》
（自己）眼中有梁木
卻放大鄰居（眼中）的刺。
Thanks for the reminder about judging.
My eye beam is heavy burden,
Stops me from beholding beauty.
No ophthalmologist knows the cure.
To ask in prayer is my duty:
Holy Spirit, open my eyes,
Be thou my vision,
Thou presence, my Light!
Waking or sleeping,
Thou my best thought.
May the Spirit’s fire burn the beam,
Washing the eye in the Spirit’s stream.