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  1. Reading
  2.  
  3. Is 43:16-21.
  4. Thus says the LORD, who opens a way in the sea and a path in the mighty
  5. waters,
  6. Who leads out chariots and horsemen, a powerful army, Till they lie
  7. prostrate together, never to rise, snuffed out and quenched like a wick.
  8. Remember not the events of the past, the things of long ago consider not;
  9. See, I am doing something new! Now it springs forth, do you not perceive
  10. it? In the desert I make a way, in the wasteland, rivers.
  11. Wild beasts honor me, jackals and ostriches, For I put water in the desert
  12. and rivers in the wasteland for my chosen people to drink,
  13. The people whom I formed for myself, that they might announce my praise.
  14.  
  15.  
  16. Philip. 3:8-14.
  17. More than that, I even consider everything as a loss because of the supreme
  18. good of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have accepted the loss
  19. of all things and I consider them so much rubbish, that I may gain Christ
  20. and be found in him, not having any righteousness of my own based on the
  21. law but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from
  22. God, depending on faith
  23. to know him and the power of his resurrection and (the) sharing of his
  24. sufferings by being conformed to his death,
  25. if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the dead.
  26. It is not that I have already taken hold of it or have already attained
  27. perfect maturity, but I continue my pursuit in hope that I may possess it,
  28. since I have indeed been taken possession of by Christ (Jesus).
  29. Brothers, I for my part do not consider myself to have taken possession.
  30. Just one thing: forgetting what lies behind but straining forward to what
  31. lies ahead,
  32. I continue my pursuit toward the goal, the prize of God's upward calling,
  33. in Christ Jesus.
  34.  
  35.  
  36. Jn 8:1-11.
  37. while Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
  38. But early in the morning he arrived again in the temple area, and all the
  39. people started coming to him, and he sat down and taught them.
  40. Then the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in
  41. adultery and made her stand in the middle.
  42. They said to him, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of
  43. committing adultery.
  44. Now in the law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you
  45. say?"
  46. They said this to test him, so that they could have some charge to bring
  47. against him. Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with his
  48. finger.
  49. But when they continued asking him, he straightened up and said to them,
  50. "Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at
  51. her."
  52. Again he bent down and wrote on the ground.
  53. And in response, they went away one by one, beginning with the elders. So
  54. he was left alone with the woman before him.
  55. Then Jesus straightened up and said to her, "Woman, where are they? Has no
  56. one condemned you?"
  57. She replied, "No one, sir." Then Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go,
  58. (and) from now on do not sin any more."
  59.  
  60.  
  61. Copyright © Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, USCCB
  62.  
  63.  
  64.  
  65. Commentary of the day
  66.  
  67. John-Paul II, Pope from 1978 to 2005
  68. Encyclical « Dives in Misericordia » § 7 (© copyright Libreria Editrice Vaticana)
  69.  
  70. "Neither do I condemn you"
  71.  
  72. Redemption is the ultimate and definitive revelation of the holiness
  73. of God, who is the absolute fullness of perfection: fullness of justice and
  74. of love, since justice is based on love, flows from it and tends towards
  75. it. In the passion and death of Christ-in the fact that the Father did not
  76. spare His own Son, but "for our sake made him sin"76 - absolute justice is
  77. expressed, for Christ undergoes the passion and cross because of the sins
  78. of humanity. This constitutes even a "superabundance" of justice, for the
  79. sins of man are "compensated for" by the sacrifice of the Man-God.
  80. Nevertheless, this justice, which is properly justice "to
  81. God's measure," springs completely from love: from the love of the Father
  82. and of the Son, and completely bears fruit in love. Precisely for this
  83. reason the divine justice revealed in the cross of Christ is "to God's
  84. measure," because it springs from love and is accomplished in love,
  85. producing fruits of salvation. The divine dimension of redemption is put
  86. into effect not only by bringing justice to bear upon sin, but also by
  87. restoring to love that creative power in man thanks also which he once more
  88. has access to the fullness of life and holiness that come from God. In this
  89. way, redemption involves the revelation of mercy in its fullness. The Paschal Mystery is the culmination of this revealing and effecting
  90. of mercy, which is able to justify man, to restore justice in the sense of
  91. that salvific order which God willed from the beginning in man and, through
  92. man, in the world.
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