The Most Ignored Gospel Story in Modern Christianity
Though Matthew Chapter 25 is often reinterpreted through the convenient prism of individual charity, Jesus doesn’t mince his words — the nations themselves will judged.
Dear friends —
Letters from Leo is publishing daily Lenten reflections through Easter, available exclusively to paid subscribers.
Each meditation will explore what it means to follow Jesus more faithfully in the midst of American civic and political life — not as partisans first, but as Christians whose consciences are shaped by the Cross.
Lent is a season of repentance, renewal, and resolve.
It is a time to confront our idols, strip away our illusions, and allow the light of God’s redeeming love to search and purify our hearts.
I hope you will walk this forty-day road with me — as your brother and fellow sinner — embracing prayer, sacrifice, and deeper conversion, and allowing the God of liberation to claim every corner of our lives and our public witness in an age of creeping authoritarianism.
“Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.” — (Matthew 25:40)
Today’s Gospel is one of the most ignored texts in modern Christianity.
“And all the nations shall be gathered together before him,” Jesus says of the Last Judgment, “and he shall separate them one from another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.”
Though this text is often reinterpreted through the convenient prism of individual charity, Jesus doesn’t mince his words — the nations themselves will judged.
On what basis are they judged?
