The texts today from the Roman Catholic Lectionary connect the Divinity of Jesus with our very human response to being forgiven. Friar Jude Winkler explains the difficulty of the people of Corinth who believed that the soul was a prisoner of the body to accept the resurrection of Jesus. Paul in this Letter to the Corinthians reminds them of his first teaching, the kerygma.
The Gospel from Luke relates an experience of Jesus as He attends a meal at the home of a Pharisee during which Robert Heaney comments that the basic requirements of Middle East hospitality were omitted by the host. The love of the woman forgiven moves her to act to rectify this situation. The life of loving service which is a consequence of forgiveness is the initiation of the eternal communion with God which faith assures us includes resurrection according to Jesus example.
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