[Tax-chick]

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[Gumdrop]

As usual, Pope Francis hits it out of the park. What a beautiful sermon.

[Tax-chick]

It is the idea that rejecting God, the message of Christ, the Gospel of Life, will somehow lead to freedom, to complete human fulfilment. As a result, the Living God is replaced by fleeting human idols which offer the intoxication of a flash of freedom, but in the end bring new forms of slavery and death.

[Salvation]

**Not only does he let the woman approach but he even forgives her sins, saying: “Her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much; but he who is forgiven little, loves little” (Lk 7:47). Jesus is the incarnation of the Living God, the one who brings life amid deeds of death, sin, selfishness and self-absorption.**

This was a “woman of the evening” so to speak. Jesus allow her touching him, thus rendering him unclean by the old law, but she had loved much and is instead forgiven, not cast out.