"As a kind of follow-up from [last Sunday's] Gospel about the workers in the vineyard, we do we do well to examine. a kind of 'mathematics of the Kingdom of God.' As noted yesterday, be very, very careful before you ask God to be fair. If God were fair, [we're] all in big trouble. What we need most from God now is that he be merciful. And, having experienced God's mercy he calls us to be merciful. Mercy is a very important aspect of the mathematics of the Kingdom of God.
"In effect the Lord says to us, 'Pay attention! You are going to be judged by the same standard by which you treat and judge others. So do the math, and realize that you were storing up for yourselves a kind of standard by which I will judge you.'
"The key principle and text in this 'math' comes in Luke's Gospel wherein the Lord says the measure with which you measure will in return be measured out to you (Luke 6:38). But this statement comes at the end of a long string of statements were in the Lord summons us to be generous, forgiving, merciful, patient, and reluctant to condemn others."
In a recent commentary, Monsignor Charles Pope (pastor of Holy Comforter-Saint Cyprian Parish,
Washington, DC) reflected on how each of us will, one day, answer to God and on how, on that day, God will judge our deeds with pure justice, with "part of that Justice [being] how we have treated others".
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