If you, LORD, keep account of sins,
Lord, who can stand?
But with you is forgiveness
and so you are revered. (Psalm 130:3-4 NABRE)
At some point during the Last Supper, Jesus said to [Thomas], “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through [faith in] me." (John 14:6)
Saint Paul teaches that, "all have sinned and are deprived of the glory of God." But, he continues, all of us, "are justified freely by his grace through the redemption in Christ Jesus." (Romans 3:23-24)
Put a little more simply, Jesus repaired mankind's broken relationship with God for all time. Because he did what he did, we can all experience an eternal relationship with God. He became the means by which God expressed his forgiveness to all who seek him in faith.
Today, I will revere God because of his mercy and I will be confident that the experience of God’s mercy leads me to a greater sense of him.*
Saint Teresa of Avila, virgin, Doctor of the Church, and patron of those who suffer with headaches, pray for us.
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