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Proverbs 10:17
“Whoever heeds discipline shows the way to life, but whoever ignores correction leads others astray.”

Protestant Pope wrote:Outrage and concern are natural human reactions. Would you not feel the emotion of anger or outrage if something were to happen to someone in your family by the hands of someone else's sin? Would you not feel concern for a family member whom is falling to sin?

I would argue that these emotions come from the fact we are created in the image of God. God loves us and part of loving someone is to example be concerned about them if something harms them or their wellbeing and like mentioned in Revelation 22:11 you mentioned, let "the righteous still do right". Part of beinf righteous is to feel concern and outrage at appropriate times and than do something about the situation. Was it not morally right for those to see the horrors of the Nazi regime and decide to do something about it and join the war effort? It isn't weakness that's for sure.

Of course, I was merely referring to the modern christians who seem to act shocked whenever something happens in a sinful world, for instance I see some being outraged when they hear that some hollywood performer has been found to be doing drugs, or has slept around. Or when a school board or some other board encourages sinful behaviour, the immediate reaction seems to be anger and lashing out. Our goal is to first judge ourselves and then our fellow christians, we are not called to make judgement on the non-christians nor the evildoers, for the Lord is the ultimate Judge of these things.

hail jezus!

Almighty Father, whose most dear Son, on the night before
he suffered, instituted the Sacrament of his Body and
Blood: Mercifully grant that we may receive it in thankful
remembrance of Jesus Christ our Savior, who in these holy
mysteries gives us a pledge of eternal life; and who lives and
reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
Amen.

Happy Holy Thursday. We begin to commemorate the events of Jesus' Passion and Resurrection.

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