Saturday. "Go away and do not sin again".

Had a lot of fun in D's garage yesterday with the bros.

There was no sin going on yesterday. Din maybe. 

Today's Gospel is about sin. You know it by heart. A woman gets caught committing adultery. I always wonder how she got caught. Were the pharisees peeking into people's bedrooms? Anyway they try to catch Jesus out. They must have known Jesus had a compassionate side. They give him an opportunity to comment on her sentence. Stoning to death. They want him to say 'don't'; when Jewish law says they should. But He is too smart to fall into their trap. He just starts scribbling in the dirt with a stick. Maybe he wrote THEIR sins in the sand. Maybe he just doodled and spoke to them all individually, mentally. Maybe it was just the Jesus factor. People get overwhelmed in His presence. Roman soldiers fall over when they try to arrest him. A woman is cured by just touching his garment. There is a power, an aura around Him. Anyway, nobody condemns her and the pharisees all leave. Jesus tells her to go and not sin again.

We have to be careful and not take this as him approving adultery.  Many Catholics seem to think adultery is alright. They are all the more guilty if they entice others into this sin too. Actually many people have an abysmal understanding of Church teachings on marriage. Some think that the Church recognizes civil divorce even. I wonder how culpable these people are. Priests don't seem to cover it in sermons. More than likely half the parishioners are in such relationships. Maybe they don't want to lose all that revenue. As a rule of thumb, if you are Catholic you have to marry a Catholic in the Catholic church. Romantic love though is a fickle beast. Most of us don't live up to the ideal. We get it wrong then spend years trying to patch it up. I'm not so sure the Church is right. It's just all so complicated that the average person simply doesn't understand the who, what and how of marriage.