You're listening to the I Pray with the Gospel Sunday Reflection on the St. Jose Maria Institute podcast.

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.

My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here, that you see me, that you hear me.

I adore you with profound reverence. I ask your pardon for my sins and the grace to make this time of prayer fruitful.

My Immaculate Mother, St. Joseph, my father, and Lord,

my guardian angel, intercede for me.

The 11th Sunday and ordinary time.

A reading from the Gospel of Luke, Chapter 7.

A woman of the city, who was a sinner,

brought an alabaster flask of ointment, and standing behind him, at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head, and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment.

Jesus said to Simon,

A certain creditor had two debtors.

One owed 500 denari and the other 50.

When they could not pay, he forgave them both.

Now which of them will love him more?

Simon answered, the one, I suppose, of whom he forgave more.

Simon, the Pharisee who was hosting Jesus, wasn't impressed with the forgiveness of a public sinner. Some Pharisees didn't consider themselves sinners, and for that reason, Jesus couldn't

save them, because he came to save sinners.

Saints have always considered themselves sinners.

St. Trezaliseu was one of them.

She explains how even though she had not committed grave sins,

she acknowledges that she is very much in debt to God's mercy.

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