Hey everyone, I am so excited for one of my favorite things of the whole year.

We're going to have a living nativity every hour on the hour from 5 to 8 p.m., December 12th through the 15th,

and I want to invite you to bring your family and friends. And you can find all the info at schooloffaith.com.

So let us begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen. And let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

Let's begin with a reading from the Gospel of Luke about a repentant woman and a Pharisee.

A Pharisee invited Jesus to dine with him, and he entered the Pharisees' house and reclined a table.

Now there was a sinful woman in the city who learned that he was at table in the house of

the Pharisee. So 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 was,

who was touching him, and that she is a sinner.

Jesus, knowing his thoughts, 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 500 days' wages,

the other owed 50. Since they were each unable to repay the debt, he forgave it for both. Which of them will

love him more? The one, I suppose, Simon said,

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,

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