Gospel of March 13, 2021
Gospel of March 13, 2021: This ability to say that we are sinners opens us to the amazement of the encounter with Jesus Christ, the true encounter. Even in our parishes, in our societies, even among consecrated persons: how many people are capable of saying that Jesus is Lord? So many! But how difficult it is to say sincerely: 'I am a sinner, I am a sinner'. Easier said than others, huh? When we chat, huh? 'This, that, this yes…'. We are all doctors in this, right? To arrive at a true encounter with Jesus, a double confession is necessary: 'You are the Son of God and I am a sinner', but not in theory: for this, for this, for this and for this ... (Pope francesco, Santa Marta, 3 September 2015).
From the book of the prophet Hosea Hos 6,1-6 "Come, let us return to the Lord:
he has tormented us and he will heal us.
He has beaten us and he will bind us.
After two days it will restore our life
and the third will make us get up,
and we will live in his presence.
Let's hurry to know the Lord,
his coming is as sure as the dawn.
It will come to us like the autumn rain,
like the spring rain that fertilizes the earth ».
Gospel of March 13, 2021: according to Luke
What will I have to do for you, Ephraim,
what shall I do for you, Judas?
Your love is like a morning cloud,
like the dew that fades at dawn.
This is why I brought them down by means of the prophets,
I killed them with the words of my mouth
and my judgment rises like light:
because I want love and not sacrifice,
knowledge of God more than holocausts.
Gospel of the day March 13, 2021: From the Gospel according to Luke Lk 18,9: 14-XNUMX During that time, Jesus said again this parable for some who had the intimate presumption of being just and despised others: «Two men went up to the temple to pray: one was a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
The Pharisee, standing, prayed to himself: “O God, I thank you because they are not like other men, thieves, unjust, adulterers, and not even as this publican. I fast twice a week and pay tithes of everything I own. "
The tax collector, on the other hand, stopped at a distance, did not dare even raise his eyes to heaven, but he beat his chest saying: "O God, have mercy on me a sinner".
I tell you: unlike the other, he returned home justified, because whoever exalts himself will be humbled, whoever humbles himself will be exalted ».