YOU … AND JUDAS ISCARIOT … AND MYSELF

What Our Lord said to Judas Iscariot, he says to the world today, to me, to you, to each and every one: ‘You seemingly are very interested in social justice. Why are you not concerned about individual justice? You love your neighbour. Right very commendable, BUT, why do you not love God?’

This is the attitude of the world today. We have swung away from a period in which we were concerned with individual sanctification to the neglect of social order. Now we have gone to the extreme of being immersed with social justice, civil rights and so forth, and we are not the least bit concerned about individual justice and the duty of paying honour and glory to God.

If you march with a banner, if you protest, then your individual life may be impure, alcoholic, anything you please. That does not matter. Judas Iscariot is the patron figure of those who divide that universal law of  God: ‘Love God and love neighbour’.

Adapted from : Fulton J.Sheen