+ The first reading yesterday of St. Paul to the Corinthians about the supreme and extreme importance of love (charitable self-sacrificial actions towards others) is demonstrated today by the sinful woman who came to Jesus when he reclined to dine at the home of a Pharisee. The Pharisee himself did not offer Jesus the usual ablutions that one would offer a guest: foot-washing and the like.
The loving woman did offer
Jesus these things, using her tears for the water, and her hair for the towel.
While the Pharisee could not
get past the fact that this was a social outcast who was doing these things to
Jesus, Jesus, on the other hand saw through to her heart and knew her to be an
ordinary human being looking for real love in mostly the wrong places, and he
loved her in her soul, and she responded by promising him that things would be
different for her from now on.
It was easy for Jesus to
forgive her sins, it is easy for him to forgive ours: if we come to him with
faith, with humility, and with love.
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