Fraternal correction
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Sep 11, 2026
John BergsmaHOST
Why do you notice the splinter in your brother's eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own? How can you say to your brother, brother, let me remove that splinter in your eye, when you do not even notice the wooden beam in your own eye? You hypocrite, remove the wooden beam from your eye first, then you will see clearly to remove the splinter in your brother's eye.
John BergsmaHOST
Now, Jesus is talking to us in this gospel about a beautiful thing in Catholic spirituality that we refer to as fraternal correction.
John BergsmaHOST
And that is making a loving rebuke of our brother or sister in Christ.
John BergsmaHOST
And Jesus is giving us some instruction about how to do this.
John BergsmaHOST
So we can easily see a tiny speck in our brother's eye, a tiny exception to his life of virtue, a tiny sin, a tiny moral failing.
John BergsmaHOST
But when it comes to ourselves, we can be glaringly oblivious to some of the most obvious failings.
John BergsmaHOST
And so Jesus is saying before you make a fraternal correction, before you go to your brother and help him with a small problem that he has with a little word of loving rebuke, make an examination of conscience yourself and try to be brutally honest with yourself.
John BergsmaHOST
And in fact, this might require some help.
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Amen.
speaker_1HOST
Fraternal Correction
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Praise be Jesus and Mary.
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In today's gospel passage from Matthew chapter 18, our Lord instructs us on the most important, though somewhat delicate or touchy subject matter, fraternal correction.
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As Jesus says today, if your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
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If he listens to you, you have won over your brother.
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Some might consider fraternal correction to be unchristian, uncharitable.
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For didn't our Lord Jesus say, Judge not, and you shall not be judged.
Patrick CahillHOST
So, dear friends, our readings this weekend, very hard to avoid the fact that it's talking about fraternal correction.
Patrick CahillHOST
Our first reading, our second reading, and our gospel all speak about fraternal correction.
Patrick CahillHOST
So it's kind of hard to preach about anything else because if this is what the liturgy is suggesting, this is what we should do.
Patrick CahillHOST
This is what we should delve into.
Patrick CahillHOST
Maybe I'm a bad person.
Patrick CahillHOST
We're so easily offended and we're so non-confrontational.
Patrick CahillHOST
This kind of fraternal correction situation can actually be very, very difficult.
Patrick CahillHOST
I know for myself personally, I'm very non-confrontational where generally speaking, I avoid it if I can.
Tim GrayHOST
It's not good during this life.
Tim GrayHOST
It's not good for the afterlife, right? And then Jesus says, look, if they don't abide to your witness, then bring other witnesses and then try to correct them, right? And so there's several steps of fraternal correction that Jesus gives.
Tim GrayHOST
But what is the point of fraternal correction? It's about living out our prophetic mission.
Tim GrayHOST
And according to our level of responsibility, but we all have a responsibility, So, you know, whether we're, you know, some are called to be bishops, some are called to be pastors, they have to be prophetic, you know, they have a prophetic responsibility.
Tim GrayHOST
But parents have a prophetic responsibility to their children and brothers and sisters to their siblings and even to our parents and to our neighbor and to our friends and to others.
ClaraHOST
Right.
ClaraHOST
The pastor there, Father Timothy Deutsch, devotes his pastor's page to walking his parishioners through St. Thomas Aquinas' teaching on fraternal correction.
AdrianHOST
OK, so from a Roman scholastic perspective, Aquinas places the act of fraternal correction squarely within his treatise on charity.
ClaraHOST
Which immediately raises a question for anyone steeped in modern legalism, you know, like why charity? Why not place the correction of an offense under the banner of justice?
AdrianHOST
Aquinas is brilliant here because he recognizes that correcting an evil action actually serves two distinct masters.
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ClaraHOST
We were fractured civically over medical data and fractured spiritually over authority and sacraments.
AdrianHOST
This time capsule highlights exactly why we so desperately need the intimate, trust-building, face-to-face communication that Christ outlined.
ClaraHOST
Because you cannot execute the delicate, surgical work of fraternal correction in a society that has lost its grip on a shared reality.
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In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
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Amen.
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Is this person important or not? are they living the truth? Are they wanting to suffer for the truth? Then those are people who truly are noble in the sight of Christ.
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In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
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We hope you enjoyed that sermon entitled, Immorality is Really Dumb.
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Our next sermon is entitled, Blessed Liberatus of Lauro.
Mark BaronHOST
We stay in the game with them.
Mark BaronHOST
We stay connected at least, even if it's from afar, in our hearts that we pray for them, right? For their own conversion, right? And so in conjunction with loving our enemies is the notion of fraternal correction.
Mark BaronHOST
Yikes.
Mark BaronHOST
That even kind of ups the ante in some way because when we love our enemies, like I said, we can do it kind of from an emotional distance.
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Mark BaronHOST
If love is in our heart, love will motivate it and muster up the courage to go have a difficult conversation.
Mark BaronHOST
Love will muster up a sense of humility that will allow me to recognize I'm a sinner too, and so... you know, we approach it, a difficult conversation, maybe with that humility.
Mark BaronHOST
Or the other aspect of this, which I haven't said yet, but let's bring it up, is that it's not just, this is not just about, this whole idea of fraternal correction isn't just about us going to someone and saying, hey, you wronged me, or hey, you know, I've noticed you're doing this, that offends God, did you know that? but it also is putting the shoe or it's also putting yourself in the other place.
Mark BaronHOST
Do we have that heart, that disposition to be able to receive correction? Do we have the humility and the desire because we want to do better in serving God to be able to let someone say, hey, you did this or you did this to me without getting defensive.
Mike MuhrHOST
You got a responsibility.
Mike MuhrHOST
Now that's not easy to live, is it? Then in the gospel reading, Jesus is talking about fraternal correction.
Mike MuhrHOST
Somebody sins against you, he has very precise things that the person's supposed to do if that happens.
Mike MuhrHOST
Now, I think it's important to consider the context of the scriptures when we look at what he tells people to do.
Mike MuhrHOST
You're married.
Mike MuhrHOST
That's a pact.
Mike MuhrHOST
But if this only works if both people are willing to be in the pact and follow a few principles on how to give fraternal correction, because that is just not easy, right? You try to do it sometimes.
Mike MuhrHOST
People get defensive right away.
VigoaHOST
And love trying to save something.
VigoaHOST
That's fraternal correction.
VigoaHOST
St. Thomas Aquinas understood this beautifully.
VigoaHOST
He treats fraternal correction as an act of charity.
VigoaHOST
Charity, not anger, not superiority, not I'm right, you're wrong, you got to listen to me.
VigoaHOST
No, charity, which means before I correct someone, I ought to ask myself a difficult question.
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This is never an easy task, for it implies the risk of rejection and misunderstanding.
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Fraternal correction must always be inspired by real charity as a spiritual work of mercy.
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We are to want the best for each other by holding each other accountable, not by judging.
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Christ is appealing to us, as His beloved, to have the same selfless and caring attitude as He has for each soul.
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