Today's Gospel 29 February 2020 with comment

From the Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Luke 5,27-32.
At that time, Jesus saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and said to him, "Follow me!"
He, leaving everything, got up and followed him.
Then Levi prepared a large banquet for him in his home. There was a crowd of tax collectors and other people sitting with them at the table.
The Pharisees and their scribes murmured and said to his disciples, "Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?"
Jesus replied: «It is not the healthy who need the doctor, but the sick;
I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners to convert. "

Giuliana of Norwich (between 1342-1430 cc)
English recluse

Revelations of divine love, chap. 51-52
"I came to call ... sinners to convert"
God showed me a gentleman sitting solemnly in peace and rest; gently sent his servant to do his will. The servant hastened to run out of love; but, here he fell into a cliff and was seriously injured. (...) In the servant God showed me the evil and blindness caused by the fall of Adam; and in the same servant the wisdom and goodness of the Son of God. In the lord, God showed me his compassion and pity for the misfortune of Adam, and in the same lord the very high nobility and infinite glory to which humanity is elevated by the Passion and death of the Son of God. That is why our Lord is very happy with his own fall [in this world in his Passion], because of the exaltation and fullness of happiness that humanity reaches, which it surpasses certainly what we would have had if Adam had not fallen. (...)

Therefore we have no reason to grieve, since our sin caused Christ's suffering, nor any reason to rejoice, since it is his infinite love that caused him to suffer. (…) If it happens that we fall out of blindness or weakness, let's get up immediately, to the sweet touch of grace. Let us correct ourselves with all our good will by following the teaching of the holy Church, according to the gravity of the sin. We go to God in love; never let us get desperate, but we are not too reckless either, as if falling didn't matter. We sincerely acknowledge our weakness, knowing that we would not be able to stand even for a moment if we did not have the grace of God. (...)

It is right that our Lord desires that we accuse and truthfully acknowledge our fall and all the evil that follows, knowing that we could never repair it. At the same time, he wants us to recognize loyally and truly the eternal love he has for us and the abundance of his mercy. Seeing and recognizing both together with his grace, this is the humble confession which our Lord awaits from us and which is his work in our soul.