Discover the Gospel of the 5th Sunday Mass in Lent
Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John*
5th Lent Sunday – Year C
At that time, Jesus went to Mount of olive trees. From dawn, he returned to the temple. As all the people came to him, he sat down and began to teach. The scribes and the Pharisees bring him a woman who had been surprised in adultery. They put it in the middle, and tell Jesus: “Master, this woman was surprised in the act of adultery. Now, in the law, Moses ordered us to storm these women. And you, what do you say? They were talking to put him to the test, so that they could accuse him. But Jesus had lowered himself and, from the finger, he wrote on earth. As we persisted in questioning him, he straightened up and said to them: “The one of you who is without sin, that he was the first to throw a stone for him. He lowered himself again and he wrote on earth. They, after hearing this, left one by one, starting with the oldest. Jesus stayed alone with the woman still there in the middle. He straightened up and asked him: “Woman, where are they?” No one condemned you? She replied, “No one, Lord. And Jesus said to him, “I don’t condemn you either. Go, and now no longer sins. »»
*Chapter 8, verses 1 to 11.
Other readings: Book of the prophet Isaiah (chapter 43, verses 16 to 21); Psalm 125 (126); Letter from Saint Paul to the Christians of Philippe (Chapter 3, verses 8 to 14).
Alone on the sand
Dominique LangJournalist with the assumptionist pilgrim and religious:
This is a funny scene that could happen today … in Afghanistan, for example. Since the dawn of time, “inspectors” have been monitoring the bedrooms to mix with the privacy of people. And we find this desire to create moral police in many religions. As if the love of a man and a woman was only a story of lawful and valid behavior.
Certainly, since the law of Moses, we have learned that adultery generates violence, destroyed families, creates social chaos. If this is the case, why is the male partner not, too, cast under the gaze of this moral police? But the disciples of Christ also heard the latter remind us that even our poorly oriented way of looking at people is already a way of being adultery. An impressive lesson.
Besides, it is only in the third time of the exchange between Jesus and his interlocutors that he looks at the woman, lost, and is addressed directly to her. It was necessary that the time of the face-to-face has come back so that it could be restored in its privacy of a respectable creature. Because everything that is written on the sand only lasts a time. The forgiveness of the Lord is forever.
