"Do not judge, so that you may not be judged.  For with the judgment you make you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get.  Why do you see the speck in your neighbor's eye, but do not notice the log in your own eye?  Or how can you say to your neighbor, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' while the log is in your own eye?  You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your neighbor's eye."

Our hearts must be broad and expansive as the ocean.  Covering all, overlooking all, loving all.

To the deafening clamor of our day, outside and inside men's hearts, we must respond with a profound silence - the very silence of God.  "You must speak out, condemn, attack..." whose words are those?  We believe that knowledge of the secret things of God sets us up on thrones by which we can criticize others.

Did Mary condemn the Romans and Jews who crucified her son?  Did she become a social activist, speaking out and crusading against crucifixion?  She spent her time and energy more wisely than that.  She prayed in the upper room with the disciples.  She drew down the power of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles who went forth to found the Church.

Let us measure others with an expansive heart which is a testimony to the expansiveness by which Christ forgives us.  Again and again, over and over he builds up our confidence, faith and hope by forgiving us.  We are holy because he forgives us.  We can make others holy by forgiving them.  In forgiving them who do we forgive?  Ourselves.

Jesus does not want to have to judge us, at least harshly.  He gives us this secret key to his heart: the refusal to judge our neighbor.  It requires humility and self-denial to use, however.  It required the same of Jesus.  Extraordinarily, we have a God who has every right to demand of us, yet he does not command of us anything more than he himself does.  Penetrate this mystery and you will come close to understanding the mystery of our adoption as his sons and daughters.

Hearts as broad and expansive as the ocean.  That is for others.  The depths are for God.