"Therefore, if you bring your gift to the altar, and there recall that your brother has anything against you, leave your gift there at the altar, go first and be reconciled with your brother, and then come and offer your gift." (MT 5:20-26)
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/060922.cfm
Sometimes we prefer to get the cart before the horse, but the Lord won’t let us get away with it. If you want to get religious, says the Lord, you have to start by mending fences.
These reflections are a result of more than 40 years of ministry as a Roman Catholic priest. Most of these years I spent in the Diocese of Charlotte which covers Western North Carolina. Now I am retired, and live in Medellín, Colombia where I continue to serve as a priest in the Archdiocese of Medellín.
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