Before you go to speak ill of this or that, listen to the words of the Imitation of Christ.
Newsroom(17/07/2022 04:74 PM, Gaudium Press) “What do you care if that one is such; or that this one lives or speaks this way or that?
“You do not have to answer for others, but for yourself alone. Why then do you concern yourself with it?
“I know all men; I see what goes on under the sun, and I know how each one behaves, what he thinks, what he desires, and to what end his intentions are directed.
“Therefore leave all things to my care; keep yourself in holy peace, and let the busybody do as he pleases.
“Upon him shall come what he does or says, for he cannot deceive me.”
THOMAS à KEMPIS, Imitation of Christ. 2. ed. Rio de Janeiro: Petra, 2021.
Compiled by Roberta MacEwan