23rd Friday "Remove the Splinter"

 In the Gospel today, Jesus told His disciples they were not to look for splinters in eyes of their neighbor, because all the while they have a wooden beam in their own.

I would suspect that most all of you have never gotten a splinter in your eye. But I bet some of you have gotten a splinter in our finger or on our hand. When we were a child if we were to get a splinter in our finger or hand, it hurts and then Mom comes along and kisses it and then she gently pulls the splinter out with tweezers and suddenly it hardly hurts at all. But that’s what Mom’s are supposed to do. They're supposed to get the splinters out of our finger.
In the Gospel today, when Jesus was referring to splinters, he was referring to faults and sins of people. He wants His disciples to not look for the faults in others, rather they were to pay attention to their own sins and faults and try to correct them.

So if we want to remove sins and faults, we can turn to our heavenly Mother, who will kiss us and gently, by her motherly intercession, help us to remove them from our life. Today, let us try to do what Jesus wants us to do –to overlook the sins and faults of others and concentrate on our own asking the Virgin Mary to help us overcome them.