Sunday PENULTIMATE After the Epiphany - called "the divine mercy"
READING Reading of the prophet Baruch 1, 15a, 2, 9-15th
will say in those days: "The Lord has watched over these evils and sent them over us because he is righteous in all his works that has commanded us, and we have not hearkened to his voice, walking according to the decrees that had placed in front of our face. Now, Lord, God of Israel, whom you brought out your people from Egypt with a mighty hand, with signs and wonders, with great power and mighty arm and you got a name, what it is today, we have sinned, we were ungodly, we have been unjust, O Lord our God, to all thy commandments. Zoom out your anger from us, because we were among the few nations where thou hast scattered us. Lord, hear our prayer, our prayer, deliver for your love and let us find favor with those who were deported, because the whole earth may know that thou art the Lord our God. "
PSALM Ps 105 (106)
® Give thanks to the Lord, his love is forever.
We have sinned with our fathers,
crimes and wickedness we have committed.
Our Fathers, Egypt,
not understand Your wonders. ®
did not remember the greatness of your love
and rebelled at the sea, near the Red Sea.
But God saved them for his name,
to know its power. ®
Many times they had been freed, but
persist in their projects and were killed for their sins;
but he saw their distress, when he heard their cry. ®
He remembered his covenant with them
and moved with pity, for his great love.
Save us, Lord our God, Gather us together from the nations, because
thank your holy name. ®
EPISTLE
Letter of Paul to the Romans 7, 1-6th
Or maybe ignored, brothers - I talk to people who know the law - the law has power over man only as long in which he lives? A married woman, in fact, is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives, but if her husband dies, she is freed from the law of marriage. She will therefore be considered adultery if he goes to another man while her husband lives, but if her husband dies she is free from the law, so that is not adultery if he goes to another man. Likewise, my brothers, you too, through the body of Christ, you were put to death in the law to belong to another, that is, one who was raised from the dead, that we bear fruit for God when we were in fact weakness of the flesh, the sinful passions, stimulated by the Law, went crazy in our members to to bear fruit for death. Now, what kept us in the dead prisoners, we were liberated by law to serve in the Spirit, which is new.
GOSPEL
Reading of the Gospel according to John 8, 1-11
at that time. The Lord Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. But in the morning he went again into the temple and all the people came to him. And he sat down and began to teach them. The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman caught in adultery, placed in the middle and said, "Teacher, this woman was caught in adultery. Now in the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. What do you think? ". They said to put this the test and have no reason to accuse him. But Jesus bent down and began to write with one finger on the ground. However, as they continued to ask, stood up and said to them: "Which of you is without sin cast the first stone at her. And he bent down and wrote on the ground. Those who heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the eldest. They left him alone, and the woman was standing before him. Then Jesus stood up and said, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you? ". And she said, "No, sir." And Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you to be 'from now on sin no more."
Comment
This text has created many questions for both the language, which most resembles the style of Luca
both for its absence in ancient Biblical manuscripts of the NT come to us.
It appears and spreads only from the fourth or fifth century.
You have the impression that a story like this
had created unease and discomfort in the early Church, as to suppose that a normal reading
could result in Christians and bad addiction to superficiality. It 's like
in the ancient manuscripts he had torn a page to prevent the most vulnerable could
scandal. It speaks, in fact, an extraordinary willingness of Jesus to mercy.
Yet it is a permissive text. Jesus the person recovers, give you the opportunity to rethink what
he did, encouraged her to reconsider in its existence entirely new.
And this, without going through the punishment, or the opinions of men, while
underpinned by the law of Moses.
Jesus, who attends the temple from early morning and gathering around him a lot of people who stop
ecstatic to hear him, is seen wearing in front, tugged and pushed in every way,
a woman accused of adultery by two groups of people: the Pharisees scribes.
not seem to want to do the job, on the spot, rather it seeks the opinion of Jesus
on a serious infringement of the law formally provides for the stoning.
accusers probably would not have come now to that, but, of course, this "group morality"
held in Jerusalem, would create drama and fear in this woman and present
restoring order to the prevailing laxity, and at the same time , would have exploited a unique, striking and exciting
together to put Jesus in a bad light, they want to entangle
contradiction or the law of Moses (giving death) or with the mercy that Jesus often, recalls, by reference to the Father (in violation of the Act).
Faced with the uproar, shouting to be decided, and convinced of their arguments, repeated in an ever more violent
by prosecutors, faced with the paradoxical situation honestly and itchy, but also
clear, everyone expects a rigid and definite conclusion that results in death .
To proceed in the stoning, if the court's sentence, it is necessary that someone
, for one, began to hurl the first stone. And 'the right and duty it is for the
witness whose testimony has been based on trial and condemnation.
So Jesus, which appeals to those who
think you have the right to begin execution of the death sentence, recalls another Indeed,
more importantly, it is the conscience of each individual and no one knows except God
As a witness a liar, in good conscience, would have made killing the witness, Jesus occurs on a different formula
right to enforce "Who is without sin cast the first stone
.
But in the meantime, Jesus takes a very different attitude, not provocative and
free trial. Write to recover land is time, let the person vent without fixing charges;
accept that in the heart of every mature their assessment. You hear, here, firmness and also the confidence that the relationship
religious right, reconstructed with God, can do the miracle of a
awareness.
If the woman is not condemned by anyone, not even Jesus condemned the woman. He who knows
fund the hearts of people, came not to condemn, but to give life to the world (Jn 12:27).
And though the reference to the moral law, as precious and irreplaceable relationship with God, Jesus is open to the horizons
consistent into the future. "Do not sin again", says Jesus
So it is left to the conscience a future project again. It ricuperino freedom
attention to God who first loves us and forgives us, to open ourselves and others to hope. The accusers
stop time and go on. Or you stay confident and humble Christ, or there is
away. Before Christ can not be true and executioners, calm and sure of its
mask. Our
heresy is to think Christ the Judge, or even demand it. But we must be
us to know how to check. As we accept God's mercy?
As we are hardened to follow Christ and judges of others, without having the courage at least to leave
aware?
Stay with the Lord despite the rejection of our audit does not make us a glimpse of hope and salvation
. And so, reminds us of the Lord, "The publicans and the harlots go into the United
of God "(MT21, 31).
Insight: a rediscovery of the moral conscience
Modern man does not wish to make an examination of conscience, much less someone who wants to invite him to do so.
agree that the more you look into the stream of consciousness with the tools to repair the psychological damage that resulted when someone from the early childhood education.
But forget the fury of self-examination has lost the compass of his life. The private sector of each has become a kind of untouchable sanctuary where it is to be ruled out every form of holiness, and is to be admitted to any sort of whim, even as immoral.
The opinions expressed in the news about recent events show the political division between those who defend all sorts of conduct in private and how many (honest?) You draw the clothes in the name of morality broken.
Unfortunately, the first and second are irresponsible, who preached a libertarian for many years to claim back the oxen, after they have escaped.
must return to the moral conscience, which is a reflection of parental influences, as Freud thought, but an expression of truth, goodness, humanity and the divine origin of man.
care of consciousness can not have another source that the Word It is the comparison of God and obedience to the word that the man is the truth about himself and his actions.
If you do not care about consciousness, efforts to cure the GDP will be ineffective in determining a just and fraternal society.
Fortunately, the potential stoning adultery were still a bit 'of moral conscience and decided to recognize they are sinners. So they left the court to the Lord, the only one who can actually judge the truth.
And the court was in mercy, because God wants man to live. And it was also true: sin no more, for the same reason: that man alive. In fact you can not live without love, but not without truth.
The compass was found as a loving gift of humanity of Jesus, who saves the adulteress and hold accountable those who led it to be him.
, too, were saved from the terrible injustice and hypocrisy that you make when you condemn others without calling into question themselves.
Roman Rite
Gospel: Mt from 6.24 to 34
Then Jesus told his disciples:
"No one can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one and love the other or be devoted the one and despise another. You can not serve God and wealth.
Therefore I say unto you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, nor about your body, what you wear, maybe life is not worth more than food and the body more than clothing?
Look at the birds of the air neither sow nor reap, nor gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Not much better than they are worth? And which of you, as you worry, can extend their lives even a little?
And the dress, why do you bother? Observe how the lilies of the field neither toil nor spin. Yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of them. Now, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will do much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Do not worry, saying, "What shall we eat? What shall we drink? What shall we wear? ". Of all these things go in search of the pagans. Your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need.
Instead, try, first, the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
not worry so tomorrow, for tomorrow will take care of itself. Each day has enough trouble of its'.
Comment
The liturgy invites us to continue to read the Sermon on the Mount (Chapters 5-7).
Jesus now addresses the question of the use of things, especially money which
global symbol of what you have.
God and wealth are incompatible with regard to salvation. Only God saves, not
some money or property it represents. Of course, own property and money is
necessities of life, but they are gifts that God gives to man for his own good and for
the advantage of others. In fact, the median property and use the relationship with his brother that if he does
determines the quality of the report that he has relationships with each other. Jesus forgave
order in the hierarchy of values: the first is life, then the assets which are used to
live it. In fact one and the others are from God, as we can well understand
watching the birds of the sky. The work does not make property owners, but only
transforms them to make them usable.
If the grass of the field is so good, knowing how carefully it says Jesus was the Father, the more
the Lord will take care of people and their needs. For man can not
do anything to prolong their lives, which is in God's hands and takes care
.
are pagans, those who do not trust the true God, creator of the world, which
worry about material things. They have no faith in their gods, do not know them as if they
give life and take care. Not so is your Father, Jesus says
from its intimate and unique experience that has made the Father.
He knows what is really important to seek the kingdom of God and his righteousness. E '
what has shaped his life and now is fulfilling the fact announcing
nearness of the kingdom of God and his benevolence towards all men.
He knows what the Father is close to anyone in difficulties in life, as
worry for the good of everyone. So the man does not stay that
accept this presence of God manifested in justice come true.
the toil of living is therefore its consolation in the presence of a merciful God