The one, I suppose, whose larger debt was forgiven

16 JUNE (Lk 7,36-8,3)

Man’s life on earth is made up of relationships. Every relationship that you live with your brothers betrays and reveals the relationship that we have with God. If the relationship we have with our brothers is true, the relationship with the Lord is also true. If the one with men is false, even that lived with our God will be false.

Who lives with a false relation with the true man Christ Jesus, he testifies and reveals that his relationship with God and also with every other man is false. It will be a relationship of hypocrisy, never of truth, always of lies, deceit, falsehood and great make-believe. Today, who is inviting Jesus at table in his house, does not believe in Jesus and does not know his truth. Not believing he wickedly interprets the heart of Christ which is a heart of most pure goodness, mercy, piety, compassion, acceptance and forgiveness. He rates the heart of Jesus the Lord in all similar to his. This is a process that occurs every day.

Every day we witness the interpretation of the hearts of the brothers. We do not interpreted it according to its truth of nature, essence, goodness, holiness and justice. We interpret it starting from the personal heart that is false, envious, jealous, faulty, dirty, full of lies, hypocrisy and deceit. This interpretation attests that toward Jesus on the part of Simone there is not a relationship of truth, but of falsehood. They are at table next to one another, but spiritually they are separated by a chasm larger than the one that separates the evil rich from the poor Lazarus.

A Pharisee invited him to dine with him, and he entered the Pharisee’s house and reclined at table. Now there was a sinful woman in the city who learned that he was at table in the house of the Pharisee. Bringing an alabaster flask of ointment, she stood behind him at his feet weeping and began to bathe his feet with her tears. Then she wiped them with her hair, kissed them, and anointed them with the ointment. When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him, that she is a sinner.”
Jesus said to him in reply, “Simon, I have something to say to you.” “Tell me, teacher,” he said. “Two people were in debt to a certain creditor; one owed five hundred days’ wages and the other owed fifty. Since they were unable to repay the debt, he forgave it for both. Which of them will love him more?” Simon said in reply, “The one, I suppose, whose larger debt was forgiven.” He said to him, “You have judged rightly.” Then he turned to the woman and said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? When I entered your house, you did not give me water for my feet, but she has bathed them with her tears and wiped them with her hair. You did not give me a kiss, but she has not ceased kissing my feet since the time I entered. You did not anoint my head with oil, but she anointed my feet with ointment. So I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven; hence, she has shown great love. But the one to whom little is forgiven, loves little.” He said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.” The others at table said to themselves, “Who is this who even forgives sins?” But he said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”

Afterward he journeyed from one town and village to another, preaching and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God. Accompanying him were the Twelve and some women who had been cured of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, Joanna, the wife of Herod’s steward Chuza, Susanna, and many others who provided for them out of their resources.

Simone does not know pure and holy love. He ignores what repentance, sorrow of the heart and soul are. He has never experienced mercy, forgiveness, compassion necessary to a sinner to go back into real hope. He lives his religion after the manner of hypocrites, in an external, formal and non-essential way. His is a dead religion, without any breath of life. This religion also pollutes the relationship with Jesus. He sees in his guest a person like everyone else. He does not see the man of God, his true prophet, the one who came to give truth to all human relationships, including that with sin and transgression. The falsity of the heart of Simon makes him see everything according to lie and darkness. On the same hypocrisy and evilness of heart are all the other commensals. They judge and condemn.

Virgin Mary, Mother of the Redemption, Angels and Saints make us holy and pure of heart.