Are You a Hypocrite

Jesus said to his disciples:
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’
will enter the kingdom of heaven,
but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.
Many will say to me on that day,
‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name?
Did we not drive out demons in your name?
Did we not do mighty deeds in your name?’
Then I will declare to them solemnly,
‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you evildoers.’


I was able to hear a fascinating Homily from our Priest this past Sunday on the above Gospel reading. Many of us, it would appear, give lip service to our Catholicism and are thin in our beliefs. When we are hypocrites, when we say one thing and perform another action, it is not only hypocritical - but contradictory.

The Priest likened it his own mind to Russian Roulette. If we have spoken words which were lies throughout our lives that (words which our actions contradicted) then a bullet is loaded into the chamber of the gun. Upon our death, as we stand at our judgement before Christ He will say to us "Are you sure you have lived the Gospel and believed it?" We will say 'Yes'

Then we will be asked to put the gun to our head - and the more hypocrisies we spoke in our life - the more chambers will be filled with bullets. The more bullets, the greater the likelihood of finding a bullet after the chamber is spun.

Certainly a different way of thinking about living the gospel, and being true to oneself.