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Bishop Sheen's commentary on the woman caught in adultery is spot on. Christ could forgive because He could judge, being the one without sin. But He will only forgive those seeking forgiveness. There's a great danger in seeking salvation in casting stones at others, but also in believing there is no sin at all.

My Lenten read. A beautiful book focusing on Christ, His time on Earth and His purpose.

I've had a difficult time continuing to read as the world seemed to fall apart; especially as the next chapter to be read was "Love as the Condition of Authority." But this is the truth we need:

"He turned to the one who had denied Him three times and asked a triple affirmation of love. The confession of love must precede the bestowing of authority; authority without love is tyranny"

"His death and also His Kingship were proclaimed in the name of the three cities of the world: Jerusalem, Rome, and Athens; in the language of the Good, the True and the Beautiful; in the tongues of Sion, the Forum and the Acropolis. "

"Mary, Magdalen, John; innocence, penitence, and priesthood; the three types of souls forever to be found beneath the Cross of Christ."

What the dream was we know not, but a modern writer, Le Fort, has guessed at it. Good Friday morning, as Claudia awoke, she seemed to hear voices in the catacombs saying: “He suffered under Pontius Pilate” then later on in Roman temples turned into churches: “He suffered under Pontius Pilate” then gathering like the roar of the sea, the voices multiplied and chanted in churches “He suffered under Pontius Pilate.”

"Before a sin, the devil makes light of it; after the sin, the devil
becomes an accuser inciting despair and worse crimes in the guilty"

"The tragedy of the life of Judas is that he might have been St. Judas."

"the eternal High Priest was condemned 'by the high priest for a year.'"

Literally about Caiaphas, truly about us.

"The religious judges, Annas and Caiphas, found Him guilty of being
too Divine; the political judges, Pilate and Herod, found Him guilty of being too human."