Pope At Santa Marta: The Courage To Admit We Are Sinners
(Vatican Radio) Having the courage to acknowledge that we are sinners enables us to receive Christ’s caress, His forgiveness, said Pope Francis Thursday morning during Mass at Santa Marta. The day’s liturgy presents the Gospel of the sinful woman who washes Jesus’ feet with her tears and anoints them with perfume drying them with her hair. Jesus is invited to the house of a Pharisee, “a person of a certain level of culture” – the Pope said – who “wanted to listen to Jesus”, hear his doctrine, find out more. In his own mind, he judges both Jesus and the sinful woman, thinking if Jesus “truly were a prophet he would know want kind of woman is touching him”. The…Continue Reading