Today's Gospel March 30 2020 with comment

From the Gospel of Jesus Christ according to John 8,1: 11-XNUMX.
At that time, Jesus made his way to the Mount of Olives.
But at dawn he went to the temple again and all the people went to him and he sat down and taught them.
Then the scribes and Pharisees bring him a woman surprised in adultery and, post it in the middle,
they say to him: «Master, this woman has been caught in flagrant adultery.
Now Moses, in the Law, has commanded us to stone women like this. What do you think?".
This they said to test him and to have something to accuse him of. But Jesus, stooping down, began to write with his finger on the ground.
And as they insisted on questioning him, he raised his head and said to them, "Who among you is without sin, be the first to throw the stone at her."
And bending over again, he wrote on the ground.
But when they heard this, they left one by one, starting with the oldest to the last. Only Jesus remained with the woman in the middle.
Then Jesus got up and said to her: «Woman, where am I? Has no one condemned you? »
And she said, "Nobody, Lord." And Jesus said to her, "Neither do I condemn you; go and from now on don't sin anymore ».

Isaac of the Star (? - ca 1171)
Cistercian monk

Speeches, 12; SC 130, 251
"Although he was of a divine nature ... he stripped himself assuming the condition of a servant" (Phil 2,6-7)
The Lord Jesus, Savior of all, "made himself all things to all" (1 Cor 9,22:28,12), so as to reveal himself as the smallest of the little ones, even though he is bigger than the great ones. To save a soul caught in adultery and accused by demons, she bends down to write with her finger on the ground (...). He is in person that holy and sublime ladder seen in sleep by the traveler Jacob (Gen XNUMX:XNUMX), the ladder erected by the earth towards God and stretched by God towards the earth. When he wishes, he goes up to God, sometimes in the company of some, sometimes without any man being able to follow him. And when he wishes, he reaches the crowd of men, heals lepers, eats with tax collectors and sinners, touches the sick to heal them.

Blessed is the soul who can follow the Lord Jesus wherever he goes, going up in the rest of contemplation or going down in the exercise of charity, following him up to lower himself in the service, to love poverty, to endure fatigue, work, tears , prayer and finally compassion and passion. In fact, he came to obey until death, to serve, not to be served, and to give, not gold or silver, but his teaching and his support to the multitude, his life for many (Mt 10,45:XNUMX). (...)

May this, then, be for you, brothers, the model of life: (...) follow Christ by going up to the Father, (...) follow Christ by going down to the brother, not refusing any exercise of charity, making yourself all to all.