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The readings in the mass today, the 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle A, encourage us to face our serious responsibility to help others through this Christian and Evangelical means of fraternal correction. Our Lord will hold us responsible if we keep our mouths shut and mind our own business. As they say, Hell is full of closed mouths. It is a grave duty of charity. We all make mistakes. We implicitly would like to be helped to be right and correct. Our problem is that we find it difficult to see our faults because we are too close to ourselves. We need another person to point out we have stains on our faces or our fly is down. Even when the one corrected does not change, Our dear Lord assures us that that person will suffer the consequences and that we who went out of our ways to help him would escape judgement from God.