Today’s Catholic Reading begins with Daniel 13:1-62 about two corrupt Jewish judges who wanted to kill a girl they could not seduce:
“Offspring of Canaan, not of Judah, beauty has seduced you, lust has subverted your conscience. This is how you acted with the daughters of Israel, and in their fear, they yielded to you; but a daughter of Judah did not tolerate your wickedness.” (A “Hidden Prophecy” of Judah to the other 11 Tribes that allowed David, Mary, and Jesus to be from them.”)
Daniel gave them God’s Judgment: “Your fine lie (Those two words are a “Hidden Prophecy” describing every “complex fraud” in human history!) has cost you also your head, for the angel of God waits with a sword to cut you in two and make an end of you both.” (That is not a “Hidden Prophecy”!) Both of them were: “put to death. Thus was innocent blood spared that day.” (A “Hidden Prophecy” of Christ’s Crucifixion, when “innocent blood” was not “spared that day”.)
Today’s Verse Before the Gospel, Ezekiel 33:11, gives us another point of view with this Prophecy describing God’s thoughts: “‘I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked man’, says the Lord, ‘but rather in his conversion, that he may live.’”
Catholics see that Daniel and Ezekiel’s “Prophecies” are united by Jesus in John 8:1-11, when “the scribes nd the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery… and said to Him, ‘Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery. Now, in the law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So, what do You say?’”
Jesus connected the Prophecies from Daniel and Ezekiel: “Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her… In response, they went away, one by one, beginning with the elders (A “Hidden Prophecy” that “elders” are the first to recognize they cannot publicly pretend to be “without sins”!)
Then, Jesus gave the woman the advice He gives to all: “Neither do I condemn you. Go, and from now on do not sin any more.”
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Today’s Simple Rhyme: “Those who seek to be forgiven / have a chance of Heaven.”
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