I never thought of the long-run consequences of our sins. I rarely think of the afterlife. Perhaps because I’m young. God can feel so distant in our daily lives. I never actually thought people even cared about another person’s souls. I sometimes feel this is a way to assert your superiority over another person by pointing out all of their faults.
In charity I will tell you that it is you who are distant from God and not Him from you. Take a look at an average day in your life. How involved is God? Do you say good morning to Jesus or Mary? We all have time for 2 minutes of prayer. Do you talk to Jesus or Mary during the day? How do you spend your free time? with God or with the world?
What you say is true for sure - let us not do that. If someone does that to you, then you can try to get past that and see if what they said has any truth to it - perhaps after you make sure, or deal with if you have to, you don’t retain resentment towards them for what seemed to be their motivation.
Letting go of resentment. Easier said than done.
This is a misunderstanding about the sin of omission.
Should we only correct others if they’re open about being told?
You’re not doing something you should be doing, which is correcting your brother. Remember the two sons of Eli who stole sacrifices that belonged to God. God not only held Eli’s sons accountable but Eli himself for not correcting them.
It’s not a sin of omission to be a busy-body who feels he has the right and duty to tell everyone else what their sins are. That is not your office nor do you have the authority. If you feel the need to correct others, the first thing you need to do is correct yourself. Leave others alone whose spiritual lives are not in your hands. You are not qualified, for one, to tell other people their sins. Again, you need to talk to your priest or spiritual director about this issue. You have a skewed idea about what is and isn’t your responsibility before God. Don’t diagnose others sins for them. They have a confessor, and it isn’t you.
You should share YOUR beliefs, without getting into telling them about their errors.
It’s not your place to correct others, who are not open to being corrected, especially by another person whom they see as no better than themselves.
We are called to model our lives after Jesus, and He always corrected sin and error. Well at any rate it seems you don’t see this as a responsibility to others to help them along the right path to heaven.
Read my other post.
You seem to overlook the fact that Ezekiel was called by God to correct Israel. When did he call you to that ministry? I don’t ask this snarkily, but in all earnestness. We cannot take Bible passages out of context and decide what they mean in matters of faith and morals. That is the responsibility and the authority of our bishops, not you or I. Again, you need to talk to your priest about this instead of deciding you are supposed to correct the sins of all and sundry.
Hold on a minute Della - what I said in my post was “God calls us to correct our sisters and brothers, when they say or do something that obviously falls short of what God expects of us as His children.” So that would be in our presence. For sure we are not to do what you said which is just tell people what we think their sins are - there is a very big difference in what I said and what you may have thought I said.It’s not a sin of omission to be a busy-body who feels he has the right and duty to tell everyone else what their sins are. That is not your office nor do you have the authority. If you feel the need to correct others, the first thing you need to do is correct yourself. Leave others alone whose spiritual lives are not in your hands. You are not qualified, for one, to tell other people their sins. Again, you need to talk to your priest or spiritual director about this issue. You have a skewed idea about what is and isn’t your responsibility before God. Don’t diagnose others sins for them. They have a confessor, and it isn’t you.
You are taking the specific example I presented in my post way out on a limb Della - I presented a specific situation and nothing like what your remark speaks of. I do not just go around pointing out what I may think a person’s sins are - I have no right to do that for sure - I am talking about someone committing a sin by a remark or action in your presence.