Catholic priest in the Diocese of Torit is urging people to do good to their neighbours, saying good things people do to their neighbours come from good hearts.
Fr. Karleto Otto told the congregation at Sts Peter and Paul Cathedral that if people really love themselves, they should do the same to their neighbours.
He urged Christians to have clean hearts, and that bad things can be seen from people’s actions which shows bad hearts.
‘If we were loving really ourselves, or you say I love myself, he loves himself, if you see what we do to our neighbours, sister if these are good things, know very well that they are from the heart of a good person and that heart comes from thinking. If I love myself why can’t I love others, why can’t we love our neighbours and why don’t I love my friends. If you heart is bad it can be seen alone even if you want to say something they are aggressive don’t think these come from somewhere it comes from the heart you are staying with these things in your heart you have to know the 10 commandments how do you associate with people’, he noted.
Meanwhile Fr. Vuni Martin called on Christians to forgive each other and avoid wrong deeds.
He discouraged them from living a worldly life, but rather focus on heavenly wisdom by being temple of God.
‘We as the temple of God have not to leave by the wisdom of this world the wisdom of this word is different for us who are Christians who are supposed to be the temple of the Holy Spirit that is why we connect with the gospel reading trying to tell us and you have heard it was said an eye for an eye that is the wisdom for the world and that is the wisdom that brought us to this crisis in South Sudan for the several years we have been going through. A new standard of living which is higher than any other standard from our culture, very often when we do a wrong thing we say we are doing it according to our culture, no your culture is not a standard by which we are judged as Christians. It is the standard of Jesus that will be used to judge me and in that standard says no revenge’, Fr martin stressed.
Fr. Martin called on for a continuous prayer for peace in South Sudan.
‘The biggest towards peace in south Sudan was taken yesterday and we pray that these step continue within the transitional period so that by the end of the three years we will get true peace’, he appealed.
The priests made their remarks on Sunday at Sts Peter and Paul Cathedral Parish in Torit.