https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/040322-YearC.cfm
I quote:
Remember not the events of the past,
the things of long ago consider not;
see, I am doing something new!
Now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?
In the desert I make a way,
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Yesterday, and all our yesterdays provide us with teaching lessons how best to live our life, notwithstanding that we should not live in the past. The present moment is all that we have to implement into our here, and now the benefits of having learned our lessons. Our mirror image encourages us to confront, and tackle those shortcomings our life presents to us deal with before beginning to judge, and condemn another human person. When we begin the life long process of changing our behaviour for the better, we are much less inclined to discover defects in others knowing well that yesterday we were just as culpable.
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." ~ Leo Tolstoy
In the parable of the fallen women we learn from Jesus of Nazareth that our primary responsibility is to transform ourself into a better person. In other words our own very evident imperfect nature should encourage us to be mindful that others share our flawed human condition.
"If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content." ~ Leo Tolstoy.
Jesus of Nazareth 1977
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